Law and Psychology

Belinda Brooks-Gordon is Lecturer in Psychology at Birkbeck College, London.Michael Freeman is Professor of English Law at University College London, he is the series editor for Current Legal Issues.

• 1. Law And Psychology: Issues for Today ; 2. Breaking Down the Barriers ; 3. Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Enhancing the Relationship Between Law and Psychology ; 4. Legal Decision Making: Psychological Reality Meets Legal Idealism ; 5. Can Cognitive Neuroscience Make Psychology a Foundational Discipline for the Study of Law? ; 6. How Psychology is Changing The Punishment Theory Debate ; 7. Modelling Systematic Communication Differences Between Law and Science ; 8. Cognitive Errors, Individual Differences, and Paternalism ; 9. Developmentally Appropriate Interview Techniques ; 10. Nothing But The Truth: Achieving Best Evidence Through Interviewing in the Forensic Setting ; 11. Lie Detection Assessments as Evidence in Criminal Courts ; 12. Towards a Broader Perspective on the Problem of Mistaken Identification: Police Decision-Making And Identification Procedures. ; 13. Child Witness Testimony: What Do We Know And Where Are We Going? ; 14. The Controversy over Psychological Evidence in Family Law Cases ; 15. Domestic Violence and Child Protection: Can Psychology Inform Legal Decisions? ; 16. Legal and Psychological Approaches to Understanding Domestic Violence for American Indian Women ; 17. Worlds Colliding: Legal Regulation And Psychologists' Evidence about Workplace Bullying ; 18. Psychology, Law and Murders of Gay Men: Responding to Homosexual Advances ; 19. Trial By Jury Involving Persons Accused of Terrorism or Supporting Terrorism ; 20. Muddying the Waters with Red Herrings: Jurors, Juries and Expert Evidence ; 21. Conflicts over Territory: Anti-Social Behaviour Legislation and Young People ; 22. Psychology as Reconstituted by Education and Law; The Case of Children with Autism ; 23. The Construction of Memory Through Law and Law's Responsiveness to Children ; 24. A Dual Process that Disables the Persuasive Impact of Mass Media Appeals to Obey Tax Laws ; 25. Consumer Bankruptcy Reform and the Heuristic Borrower ; 26. Regulating Prostitution ; 27. Psychoanalysis and the Nazis