Psychology and Crime News

So here’s what I’ve been twittering about for the last few days. (Follow crimepsychblog here: http://twitter.com/#!/crimepsychblog)

Freebies:

• Springer is offering free access to many journals til 30 November. No registration required. Here’s Law and Human Behavior http://retwt.me/1Pl5h and here is Law and Human Behavior, 34(1), a special on interrogation and confession http://retwt.me/1Pl5F
• The entire digital archive of the Royal Society’s publications is free to access from Monday until 30th November http://bit.ly/bToROe

New issues:

• Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 38, Issue 5 (September-October 2010) http://retwt.me/1Pl7b
• J. Investigative Psych & Offender Profiling 7(3) Articles on line-ups, evidence, lie detection, witnesses http://retwt.me/1Pl6V
• Behavioral Sciences & the Law 28(5) Special on Adjudicative competencies http://retwt.me/1Pl6T
• European Journal of Criminology 7(6). Special on European criminal careers research http://retwt.me/1Pl6N
• British Journal of Criminology 50 (6) http://retwt.me/1Pl4U
• Aggressive Behavior 36(6) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1098-2337 [Also links to some free articles]
• J. Research in Crime & Delinquency 47(4) http://jrc.sagepub.com/content/vol47/issue4/
• Child Abuse and Neglect 34(1) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01452134
• Punishment & Society 12(4) http://pun.sagepub.com/content/vol12/issue4/
• Journal of Sexual Aggression 16(3) now online http://is.gd/g5ifY

Deception articles:

• The Reliability of Lie Detection Performance in Law Hum Beh 2009, currently free access til 30 Nov PDF: http://retwt.me/1Pl6M
• Outsmarting the Liars: The Benefit of Asking Unanticipated Questions in Law Hum Beh 2009, currently free access PDF: http://retwt.me/1Pl6l
• Police Lie Detection Accuracy: The Effect of Lie Scenario from Law Hum Beh 33(6) Free access til 30 Nov http://retwt.me/1Pl5J
• Aw, bless. New research in Psychol Science 21(10) shows 3-yr-olds have highly robust bias to trust what people say. http://is.gd/g5hB2
• Articles on reality monitoring, deceptive handwriting (FREE) & false memory in latest issue of Applied Cog Psy 24(8) http://is.gd/g5iAc
• Fascinating in press article on how honesty is rewarded and deception punished across cultures, in Pers Soc Psychol Bull http://is.gd/g5h3s

Other articles that caught my eye:

• From SSRN-Psychological Syndromes and Criminal Responsibility by Christopher Slobogin http://retwt.me/1Pl4G
• New in Acta Psych: Photos can create false memories if events perceived as personally plausible, less likely otherwise http://is.gd/gfqYS
• Interesting. SSRN-The Devastating Impact of Prior Crimes Evidence – And Other Myths of the Criminal Justice Process http://retwt.me/1Pl4a
• Mapping and Measuring Cybercrime: a Forum Discussion Paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1694107
• Abstract: “When serial killers go unseen: The case of Trevor Joseph Hardy” in Crime Media Culture http://ht.ly/2WO89 (via @Understanding Crime)
• CSI effect and criminals? New analysis suggests rapists are inconsistent in their forensic awareness http://is.gd/g5iZH
• New research in J. Personality & Soc Psych Emotion Guided Threat Detection: Expecting Guns Where There Are None http://is.gd/g5imo
• New in Psychol Science 21(10): alienated youth are more aggressive than others when they experience acute peer rejection. http://is.gd/g5hJH
• New: Confidence & Professional Judgment in Assessing Children’s Risk of Abuse, Research on Social Work Practice 20(6) http://is.gd/g5gY5

And finally:

• In Guardian Science: How juries are fooled by statistics http://bit.ly/a3UywM
• Karen Franklin PhD reviews “groundbreaking new book on sex offender treatment” http://retwt.me/1PeRw
• The Situationist Blog highlights SSRN paper by Davis & Leo on eliciting confessions and the risk of false confessions http://retwt.me/1PeKq