Offenders' memories of violent crimes / / edited by Sven A. Christianson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911019597503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley, c2007
• ISBN: 9786610838639; 9781280838637; 1280838639; 9780470713082; 0470713089; 9780470015070; 0470015071; 9780470035764; 0470035765
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (404 p.)
• Collana: Wiley series in the psychology of crime, policing, and law
• Altri autori (Persone): ChristiansonSven-Åke
• Disciplina: 364.3
• Soggetti: Forensic psychology; Violent offenders; Amnesia; Criminal investigation - Psychological aspects; Criminal psychology; Psicologia forense; Delinqüents perillosos; Amnèsia; Investigació criminal; Psicologia criminal; Llibres electrònics
• 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