Part 1 Children as witnesses: videotechnology and the child witness; explaining conversation rules as a method to reduce suggestibility of the child witness; interviewing children - the importance of omission errors; the defence mechanisms and the deformations of the testimony given by sexually abused juvenile. Part 2 Cognitive interview and policy reaction: further perspectives in cognitive interview; the effects of the cognitive interview on recall, recognition and the confidence/accuracy relationship; cognitive interview - when any context reinstatement instruction is successful; cognitive interview -confronting true and false statements; perceptions of the credibility and evidential value of victim and suspect statements in interviews; police officers' inadequate impression formation in confrontation with offenders as a result of physical effort; police folklore and attributions of guilt. Part 3 Judicial decision-making: Sate of Ohio versus X: science and strategy in the criminal court; impact on verdict of gender homogeneous juries in a case of rape; judicial decision-making - information processing and judgements given by blind subjects; polygraphs in criminal justice systems; the jury decision rule; juror's decision in capital cases; parents fighting for custody of children. Part 4 Characteristics and therapy of offenders: boy's behavioral patterns in kindergarten predict male delinquency, withdrawal, and school adjustment; assessing loss of self-control in violent offenses committed by juveniles; social competence and socio-moral reasoning in young offenders; feminist group therapy fro women who self-harm;; heterogeneity of the population of murders as the fundamental problem in psychological profiling of a perpetrator; necrophilia; are casual theories of paedophilia passible? expert psychological opinion for the court in cases of homicide under emotional strain in Poland; the problem of depression's diagnostics in forensic and civil law in women. Part 5 Prison and offender research: effects of prison factors on recidivism; prison between values and efficiency; symbolic patterns in prisoners' thinking; allowing male convicted prisoners to wear their own clothes - the psychological effects; a harm reduction approach to the depenalization of drug crime via community based outpatients treatment; international benchmarking; training of prison officers for leading problem-oriented groups of inmates; riots in the Romanian penitentiaries after the Revolution of December 1989; correctional treatment in Portugal. Part 6 (Part contents).
