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New frontiers in criminal careers research, 2000-2011: A state-of-the-art review

Why do robbers choose a particular area to commit an offense? Do they rob close to home? Do they search for areas with suitable and attractive targets? What keeps them away from certain areas? To answer these questions, a model is developed of how robbers choose target areas. The model draws on various theoretical and empirical traditions, which include environmental criminology, journey to crime research, gang research, and social disorganization theory. Testing the model on cleared robbery cases in Chicago in the years 1996–1998, we demonstrate that robbery location choice is related to characteristics of target areas, to areas where offenders live, to joint characteristics of the resident and target areas, and to characteristics of the offenders themselves. The presence of illegal markets and other crime generators and crime attractors make areas attractive for robbers, whereas collective efficacy seems to keep them out. Distance as well as racial and ethnic segregation restrict the mobility of offenders.

Where offenders choose to attack: a discrete choice model of robberies in chicago*

In Experiment 1, we examined whether three interview styles used by the police, accusatory, information-gathering and behaviour analysis, reveal verbal cues to deceit, measured with the Criteria-Based Content Analysis (CBCA) and Reality Monitoring (RM) methods. A total of 120 mock suspects told the truth or lied about a staged event and were interviewed by a police officer employing one of these three interview styles. The results showed that accusatory interviews, which typically result in suspects making short denials, contained the fewest verbal cues to deceit. Moreover, RM distinguished between truth tellers and liars better than CBCA. Finally, manual RM coding resulted in more verbal cues to deception than automatic coding of the RM criteria utilising the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software programme. In Experiment 2, we examined the effects of the three police interview styles on the ability to detect deception. Sixty-eight police officers watched some of the videotaped interviews of Experiment 1 and made veracity and confidence judgements. Accuracy scores did not differ between the three interview styles; however, watching accusatory interviews resulted in more false accusations (accusing truth tellers of lying) than watching information-gathering interviews. Furthermore, only in accusatory interviews, judgements of mendacity were associated with higher confidence. We discuss the possible danger of conducting accusatory interviews.

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Cues to Deception and Ability to Detect Lies as a Function of Police Interview Styles

The theory of anchored narratives proof by narrative only the quality of anchors investigation and proof confessions identification witnesses expert testimony defense tactics selection of evidence.

Anchored Narratives: The Psychology of Criminal Evidence

THE ROAD TO THE ROBBERY Travel Patterns in Commercial Robberies

This paper investigates criminal trajectories of individuals who are involved in organized crime. A semiparametric group-model is used to cluster 854 individuals into groups with similar developmental trajectories. The most important fi ndings of the study relate to the substantial group of adult-onset offenders (40 per cent) and a group without any previous criminal records (19 per cent), next to a group of early starters (11 per cent) and a group of persisters (30 per cent). Up to date, no trajectory study has discovered such a vast share of adult-onset offenders. Furthermore, the fi ndings turn out to be quite robust, if trajectory analyses are applied to different kinds of criminal activities and to different roles in criminal groups.

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Criminal Trajectories in Organized Crime

About the Editors. About the Authors. 1. Adversarial or Inquisitorial: Comparing Systems P.J. van Koppen, S.D. Penrod. 2. Adversarial or Inquisitorial: Do we Have a Choice? H.F.M. Crombag. 3. An Empirically Based Comparison of American and European Regulatory Approaches to Police Investigation C. Slobogin. 4. 'We Will Protect Your Wife and Child, but only if You Confess': Police Interrogations in England and the Netherlands A. Vrij. 5. Violence Risk Assessments in American Law J. Monahan. 6. The Dual Nature of Forensic Psychiatric Practice: Risk Assessment and Management under the Dutch TBS-Order C. de Ruiter, M. Hildebrand. 7. The Death Penalty and Adversarial Justice in the United States S.R. Gross. 8. Taking Recovered Memories to Court H. Merckelbach. 9. Adversarial Influences on the Interrogation of Trial Witnesses R.C. Park. 10. Children in Court I.M. Cordon, et al. 11. Identification Evidence in Germany and in the US: Common Sense Assumptions, Empirical Evidence, Guidelines, and Judicial Practices S.L. Sporer, B.L. Cutler. 12. Expert Evidence: The State of the Law in the Netherlands and the United States P.T.C. van Kampen. 13. Expert Witnesses in Europe and America M.J. Saks. 14. The Role of the Forensic Expert in an Inquisitorial System T. Broeders. 15. Psychological Expert Witnesses in Germany and the Netherlands C. Knoernschild, P.J. van Koppen. 16. Preventing Bad Psychological Scientific Evidence in the Netherlands and the United States P.J. vanKoppen, M.J. Saks. 17. Styles of Trial Procedure at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia F.J. Pakes. 18. Convergence and Complementarity between Professional Judges and lay Adjudicators S. Seidman Diamond. 19. The Principle of Open Justice in the Netherlands R. Hoekstra, M. Malsch. 20. The John Wayne and Judge Dee Versions of Justice P.J. van Koppen, S.D. Penrod. Legal Citations. References. Index.

Adversarial versus inquisitorial justice: Psychological perspectives on criminal justice systems

Many people believe that inconsistency is a sign of lying, and that consistency is a sign of truth telling. The present chapter assesses the validity of these popular beliefs. We review the literature on the relationship between consistency and deception, and present an overview of effect sizes obtained in studies on this topic. Four different types of consistency are explored, namely: within-statement consistency, between-statement consistency, within-group consistency, and statement-evidence consistency. We also discuss three interview approaches designed to amplify differences between liars and truth tellers—the unanticipated-question approach, the cognitive-load approach, and the Strategic Use of Evidence technique—and examine their impact on different types of consistency. Finally, we identify limitations and gaps in the literature and provide directions for future research.

P.J. van Koppen

Papers

Anchored Narratives: The Psychology of Criminal Evidence

THE ROAD TO THE ROBBERY Travel Patterns in Commercial Robberies

Criminal Trajectories in Organized Crime

Adversarial versus inquisitorial justice: Psychological perspectives on criminal justice systems

The inconsistent suspect: A systematic review of different types of consistency in truth tellers and liars