Advances in Psychology and Law

This volume consists of up-to-date review articles on topics relevant to psychology and law, and will be of current interest to the field. These topics are currently attracting a great deal of research and public policy attention in the U.S. and elsewhere and will be relevant to researchers, clinical practitioners, and policy makers. Topics include: attitudes toward police (Cole et al.), accuracy of memory for child sexual abuse (Goldfarb et al.), the use of interpreters in investigations (Goodman-Delahunty et al.), adjustment of former prisoners post-exoneration (Kirshenbaum et al.), psychological implications for gun policy (Pirelli et al.), ability to match people with images from ID cards and video (Rumschik et al.), judicial instructions on eyewitness evidence (Skalon et al.), social science of the death penalty (West et al.), and informant testimony (Wetmore et al.). 

• prison exoneration
• psychology and law
• eyewitness evidence
• death penalty
• informant testimony
• memory of child sex abuse
• gun policy
• investigative interviews
• forensic psychology
• forensic mental health

• Criminal Justice Department and Interdisciplinary Social Psychology PhD Program, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, USA

  Monica K. Miller

• Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, USA

  Brian H. Bornstein

Monica K. Miller is a Foundation Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno with a split appointment between the Criminal Justice Department and the Interdisciplinary Social Psychology PhD Program. She is on the editorial board of the journal Psychology, Crime & Law. She has authored 5 books and edited 9 books, including “Handbook of Community Sentiment” (Springer, 2015).

Brian H. Bornstein is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he served as Director of the country’s oldest law-psychology program; Professor at Arizona State University; and Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina. He has edited 15 books, most of which have been with Springer, and has authored 5 other scholarly books. 

The co-editors have a longstanding and productive working relationship. Together, Brian and Monica are currently co-editors of the New York University book series “Psychology and Crime” and co-edited a volume on “Stress, Trauma, and Wellbeing in the Legal System” (Oxford University Press, 2013), as well as “Advances in Psychology and Law” Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4 (Springer). They have also co-authored one book and over a dozen journal articles together.

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