Product Description: Readers of this book can gain novel insight into the various theoretical perspectives of psychology and law. It is demonstrated that psychology is not simply an applied discipline in the legal area, but that it contains its own concepts and paradigms for basic research...read more

Product Description: This latest volume in the Cambridge Criminal Justice Series focuses upon young adults and their treatment in the criminal justice system. The subject is very topical because there is increasing evidence that a rigid distinction between ‘youth’ and ‘adulthood’ is not appropriate in modern societies...read more

Product Description: Selected contributions to the Second European Conference on Law and Psychology, held in Nuremberg, Germany in 1990. The volume is divided into nine parts: general perspectives, explanation of offending and assessment of offenders, treatment and prevention of offending, psychological research on th...read more