Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of case studies
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- 1 Psycholegal Research: An Introduction
- 2 Eyewitnesses: Key Issues and Event Characteristics
- 3 Eyewitnesses: The Perpetrator and Interviewing
- 4 Children as Witnesses
- 5 The Jury
- 6 Sentencing as a Human Process, Victims, and Restorative Justice
- 7 The Psychologists as Expert Witnesses
- 8 Detecting Deception
- 9 Witness Recognition Procedures
- 10 Psychology and the Police
- 11 Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index
10 - Psychology and the Police
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of case studies
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- 1 Psycholegal Research: An Introduction
- 2 Eyewitnesses: Key Issues and Event Characteristics
- 3 Eyewitnesses: The Perpetrator and Interviewing
- 4 Children as Witnesses
- 5 The Jury
- 6 Sentencing as a Human Process, Victims, and Restorative Justice
- 7 The Psychologists as Expert Witnesses
- 8 Detecting Deception
- 9 Witness Recognition Procedures
- 10 Psychology and the Police
- 11 Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
Interrogation remains an important investigative tool. There are immense differences between the current investigative interviewing techniques and conditions of custodial confinement, as practiced in England, and those legally allowed and practiced in the USA.
(Gudjonsson, 2006:143).Police stop tactics, when used in a racist manner, run the risk of causing profound public resentment.
(Miller et al., 2008:162).If people are involved in extreme and violent acts, we tend to assume that their personality must be similarly extreme and deviant. We then tend to make any available evidence fit with our assumptions. This is exactly what happened with the captured Nazis, and the same effect can be seen in the way most people consider the psychology of terrorists.
(Silke, 2008:104)INTRODUCTION
The domain of policing offers ample opportunity for psychological research. As police management becomes more educated and more professional and they appreciate psychological research more – for example, in relation to fitness-for-duty evaluations, selection, promotion, the work of specialist units, hostage-taking incidents, and an evaluation component is included more often than it used to be when changes are introduced within police forces – psychologists have come to play a more significant part by contributing to knowledge about, and influencing developments in, a broad range of policing issues. However, psychologists need to be closely integrated into police forces if they are to perform their various roles constructively.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Psychology and LawA Critical Introduction, pp. 354 - 405Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009