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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143709603321

Titolo

Offenders' memories of violent crimes [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Sven Å. Christianson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley, c2007

ISBN

1-280-83863-9

9786610838639

0-470-71308-9

0-470-01507-1

0-470-03576-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (404 p.)

Collana

Wiley series in the psychology of crime, policing, and law

Altri autori (Persone)

ChristiansonSven-Åke

Disciplina

364.15091

364.3

Soggetti

Psicologia forense

Delinqüents perillosos

Amnèsia

Investigació criminal

Psicologia criminal

Forensic psychology

Violent offenders

Amnesia

Criminal investigation - Psychological aspects

Criminal psychology

Llibres electrònics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Offenders' Memories of Violent Crimes; Contents; About the Editor; List of Contributors; Series Preface; Preface; Part 1 Theoretical Aspects of Offenders' Memories; 1 Searching for Offenders' Memories of Violent Crimes; 2 Memory Formation in Offenders: Perspectives from a Biopsychosocial Model of Eyewitness Memory; 3 An Investigation of



Violent Offenders' Memories for Instrumental and Reactive Violence; 4 The Nature of Memories of Violent Crime among Young Offenders; 5 Memory for Murder: The Qualities and Credibility of Homicide Narratives by Perpetrators

Part 2 Evaluating Offenders' Memories6 Neuroimaging and Crime; Colour plate; 7 Amnesia for Homicide as a Form of Malingering; 8 The Role of Malingering and Expectations in Claims of Crime-related Amnesia; 9 Evaluating the Authenticity of Crime-related Amnesia; Part 3 Interviewing Offenders; 10 Interviewing Suspects of Crime; 11 Interrogations and Confessions; 12 Interviewing to Detect Deception; 13 Crime Features and Interrogation Behaviour among Homicide Offenders; 14 Memory-enhancing Techniques for Interviewing Crime Suspects

15 Interviewing Offenders: A Therapeutic Jurisprudential ApproachIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Claims of amnesia for violent and sexual crimes are common as guilty suspects allege memory loss to avoid punishment. The key issue then becomes whether the memory loss is genuine or feigned. Offenders' Memories of Violent Crimes takes a new approach to the subject by focusing not on eyewitness or bystander testimonies, but on the testimonies of the offenders themselves - or, more specifically, on the way they remember and relate their violent crimes. Under the guidance of Sven Christianson, expert contributors explore offenders' memories with particular emphasis on theory and empirical