The Routledge International Handbook of Legal and Investigative Psychology brings together some of the world's leading experts in forensic sciences in a single comprehensive and authoritative volume.

Ray Bull is Immediate Past President of the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL). In 2010 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society, an honour restricted to 40 living psychologists. In 2008 he received the EAPL Award for Life-time Contribution to Psychology and Law. He regularly acts as an expert witness and conducts workshops/training on investigative interviewing around the world.

Iris Blandón-Gitlin is Professor of Psychology at California State University, Fullerton, USA. Her research focuses on examining social-cognitive factors that influence people's memories, the detecting of deception, and the elicitation of information from sources in forensic contexts. Dr Blandón-Gitlin also consults in criminal cases and frequently conducts training for professionals in the legal community.

List of Contributors

Introduction

Ray Bull and Iris Blandon-Gitlin

1. The Right to Remain Silent: Realities and Illusions

Saul M. Kassin, Kyle C. Scherr and Fabiana Alceste

2. Roar or 'PEACE': Is it a 'Tall Story'?

Ray Bull

3. True and False Memories in Forensic Contexts

Iris Blandon-Gitlin and Elise Fenn

4. Investigating and Prosecuting Rape: Victim and Criminal Justice Professionals' Perspectives

Emma Sleath

5. The Probative Value of Emotional Affect in Homicide Investigations

Emily V. Shaw, Jennifer Gongola, Jennifer Teitcher and Nicholas Scurich

6. Investigative Decision Making

Karl Ask and Ivar Fahsing

7. Cognitive Fluency in the Courtroom

Eryn Newman, Madeline Jalbert, and Neal Feigenson

8. Interviewing and Interrogating Minority Suspects: Psychological Science Can Help Improve the Process and Outcomes

Elise Fenn, Catherine Grosz and Iris Blandon-Gitlin

9. Interpreters in Investigative Contexts

Jacqueline Evans, Sarah Shaffer and Dave Walsh

10. Impact of Alcohol and other Drugs on Eyewitness Memory

Heather D. Flowe, Melissa F. Colloff, Lilian Kloft, Theodore Jores and Laura M. Stevens

11. Lay Participation in Legal Decision Making

Margaret Bull Kovera and Lora M. Levett

12. Police Interviewing of Sexual Assault Victims: Current Organisational Responses and Recommendations for Improvement

Nina J. Westera, Martine B. Powell, Rebecca Milne and Jane Goodman-Delahunty

13. Reviewing the use of Crime Linkage Evidence within a Legal Context

Kari Davies, Jessica Woodhams, Matthew Tonkin

14. The Verifiability Approach: Advances, Challenges, and Future Prospects

Galit Nahari and Aldert Vrij

15. Emotion - Internal and External Consequences for Legal Authorities

Annika Melinder, Chiara Mirandola, and Livia Gilstrap

16. Stalking: How Perceptions differ from Reality and why these Differences matter by Adrian J. Scott
17. Establishing cooperation and eliciting information: Semi-cooperative sources' affective resistance and cognitive strategies

Simon Oleszkiewicz and Pär Anders Granhag

18. Evidence of Identification from Eyewitnesses

Colin Tredoux and Jacques Py

19. From the Ivory Tower to the Interrogation Room: Training and Field Evaluation Research on Suspect Interviewing

Melissa B. Russano, Christopher E. Kelly, and Christian A. Meissner

20. Introducing Psychology to the Justice System in Taiwan

Yee-San Teoh and Leon C. H. Huang

Index