A round-up of December tweets from crimepsychblog

New Journal Issues

• Women & Criminal Justice 20(4), articles on IPV, life sentences and risk http://retwt.me/1Qjtd
• Justice Qtrly 27(6), articles on transgender prisoners, gangs, social learning theory, self-control, in-reach http://is.gd/jtBjs
• Dec 10 issue of Learning & Individual Differences 21(1) has special section on education of children in detention http://retwt.me/1QjrH
• Violence Against Women 16(12), includes special section on false allegations of sexual assault http://retwt.me/1QceY

See also:

• Law Journal of the Month – Oxford Journals offer free access to all content for one journal for one month http://retwt.me/1QcYq

Deception and interviewing

Scholarly articles:

• Thermal Imaging as a Lie Detection Tool at Airports http://retwt.me/1QhzC
• Influence of Investigator Bias on the Elicitation of True & False Confessions http://retwt.me/1QhzB
• Eliciting Cues to False Intent: A New Application of Strategic Interviewing http://retwt.me/1QhzA
• Looks & Lies: Physical Attractiveness in Online Dating Self-Presentation and Deception. munication Research 37(3) http://retwt.me/1QgIz
• New research on fMRI-based deception detection measures’ vulnerability to countermeasures http://retwt.me/1QbCJ
• New research: Improving efficacy of Concealed Information Test? “Denoised P300 & machine learning-based CIT method” http://retwt.me/1QbCC
• Psychophysiological Response Pattern in Symptom Validity Testing Arch Clin Neurology http://retwt.me/1QbDE
• Free access: The Polygraph and Forensic Psychiatry (Don Grubin) J. American Academy of Psychiatry & Law http://retwt.me/1QggR
• Great write-up of a rare study of fMRI countermeasures (via @ResearchBlogs) How To Fool A Lie Detector Brain Scan http://goo.gl/fb/7oNFv

See also:

• Spotting liars: The Law of Sufficient Motivation, in Psychology Today http://retwt.me/1QgI9
• Article on fMRI in court is one of Nature News top stories of 2010. Well worth a (re)read. http://retwt.me/1QfBJ
• Cricket’s old boys are proposing lie detectors as a way to bat corruption: http://ht.ly/3q4KH Someone plse tell them it doesn’t work
• From Scientific American What Makes An Honest Smile Honest? http://bit.ly/hkX7HN
• RT @vaughanbell ” Fascinating @evbasedmummy piece on how and why parents lie to their children http://is.gd/ivosZ “
• RT @psypress Can deception be a life skill? http://bit.ly/e4jYYk
• RT @NeuroCog Beliefs, predictions and shortcuts in the deceitful brain (Uni of Cambridge article): http://bit.ly/eK1rVw
• RT @researchdigest Articles on cognitive neuroscience of confabulation, free access til Feb 28 (scroll down ->symposia) http://ht.ly/3qYl8
• RT @vaughanbell Frequent truth telling makes lying more difficult, but frequent lying makes lying easier. http://is.gd/hQeIM
• RT @readinglies Ocular motor deception detection technology http://secprodonline.com/articles/2010/09/01/seeing-through-the-lies.aspx
• Great summary of the DWP ‘Lie Detector’ trials from @Unity_MoT http://tinyurl.com/2366dlg
• “When volunteers suspected they were being lied to activity levels rose in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” New Scientst http://retwt.me/1Qcgj

Video games and aggression

• How interacting with aggressive virtual characters in video games affects trust and cooperation of players http://retwt.me/1QhBJ
• Press release: “New study shows that depression, not video games, could be to blame for youth violence” http://retwt.me/1QbDr

Elsewhere in the forensic research literature

• Howard Zonana & the Transformation of Forensic Psychiatry J. American Academy Psychiatry & Law 38(4) http://retwt.me/1QggM
• Free access, explores propensity to blame female rape victims. Social Justice Research 23(4) http://retwt.me/1QggK
• Free access, investigating psychological dynamics underlying demonizing (seeing others as pure evil) http://retwt.me/1QggH
• Intelligence-led & traditional policing approaches to drug markets – parison of offenders http://retwt.me/1QcYs
• Free research article on traumatic brain injury in male young offenders in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 20(6) http://is.gd/iCayc
• Press release: link between an individual’s sensitivity to testosterone and aggressive behaviour http://retwt.me/1QbDp
• Press release: Preteen conduct problems leads to teenage serious violence and delinquency http://retwt.me/1QbDw

And:

• In December’s APA Monitor: Researchers disagree about whether violent video games increase aggression http://retwt.me/1QdVa
• Study fr Berkeley Ctr fr Crim Justice: Increasing Employment Opportunities for People with Prior Convictions http://retwt.me/1QbDD
• Online interactions involving suspected paedophiles who engage male children http://tinyurl.com/3ygu8ls
• ‘Impulsivity gene’ found in violent offenders. New Scientist 23 December 2010 http://retwt.me/1QgIB

See also:

• pendium of reoffending statistics & analysis – selection of papers summarising analysis by Ministry of Justice http://retwt.me/1QbDo
• Call for chapter proposals – Police and Protesters: Motives and Responses http://retwt.me/1PZzP
• “Scared Straight not only doesn’t work, it may actually be more harmful than doing nothing” via World of Psychology http://retwt.me/1PUpf
• RT @vaughanbell Excellent @chriscfrench piece on how UK prosecutions have been based entirely on ‘recovered memories’ http://is.gd/hLwgP
• New (to me) blog on false Confessions (HT to @cjprof) http://retwt.me/1Qhzu

A month’s worth of tweets in one post (I know, I know, but I’ve been away).

New journal issues

Free:

Others:

• • Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Volume 26, Number 4 http://retwt.me/1PORx
• Journal of Family Violence, Volume 25, Number 8 http://retwt.me/1PORw
• Critical Criminology 18(4). Special Issue on Green Criminology. http://retwt.me/1PORt
• International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 33(5-6) http://retwt.me/1PORs
• Policing 4(4). Special issue on police corruption. http://retwt.me/1PORg
• Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 16(4) http://retwt.me/1PORf
• Homicide Studies November 2010, 14 (4) http://retwt.me/1PySs
• Special Issue of Journal of Experimental Criminology [6(4)]: Experimental Studies of Violence Against Women http://retwt.me/1PyQI
• Crime, Law & Social Change 54(2). Special Issue: The Present and Future of Left Realism http://retwt.me/1PrU6
• Violence Against Women 16 (10) http://retwt.me/1PrU2
• Journal of Offender Rehabilitation 49(7) http://is.gd/gwiwL
• Aggression & Violent Behavior 14(6). Ethics, female offenders, child abuse, IPV, PTSD, & athletics (rly) http://retwt.me/mvdD

Journal articles that caught my eye

• New research on traumatic brain injury in youth offenders – balanced press release here: http://retwt.me/1POQI
• Psychological science & sound public policy: Video recording of custodial interrogations American Psychologist 65(8) http://is.gd/hwocg
• In press: social status of drug procurers & their social distance from drug dealers affects sales, fraud & gift-giving http://retwt.me/1PyRR
• Interactional norms in the Australian police interrogation room Discourse & Society 21(6) http://retwt.me/1PyQH
• Women’s testimony on domestic violence in India & legal implications. Indian J of Gender Studies 17(3) http://retwt.me/1PyQg
• Forensic evidence: Materializing bodies, materializing crimes. European J of Women’s Studies 17(4) http://retwt.me/1PyQf
• Child abuse victims who blame themselves & families present higher rates of PTSD http://retwt.me/1Pr3i

New deception research and mentary:

• Sanity at last. “Government abandons lie detector tests for catching benefit cheats” http://is.gd/gXtqI
• Jo Are You Lying to Me? Temporal Cues for Deception — Journal of Language and Social Psychology http://retwt.me/1PORv
• Is It Always Bad To Lie? Review of a new book on deception, via http://retwt.me/1POR5
• Interviewers outperform thermal imaging technology in identifying liars & truth-tellers. Great study, FREE til 30/11 http://is.gd/hxePN
• In press: Role of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in deception when remembering neutral & emotional events Neurosci Res http://is.gd/hxdN4
• Neat new study on deceptive groups: Extracting Concealed Information from Groups in J. of Forensic Sciences. http://retwt.me/1PO2N
• “Trusting people make better lie detectors” from SAGE Insight. Includes link to free PDF of journal article http://retwt.me/1PyQX
• In The Job Hunt, People Do Lie, But Honesty Pays Off, Study Finds http://retwt.me/1PyQd
• Misguided: Polygraphs provide false reassurance. Sigh. “Polygraph Testing Against Border Corruption” via Secrecy News http://retwt.me/1Pr4k
• To detect lies it’s equally as important to be able to detect when someone is being truthful. http://retwt.me/1Pr3Q via @humintell
• Blog post from @humintell on interesting new research: Are Children Good Liars? http://retwt.me/1Pr3k

Research and resources on terrorism and counter-terrorism

• Methods to Detect and Characterize Terrorist activity, report from Institute for Homeland Sec Solutions http://retwt.me/1POQO
• Deradicalization: Literature review and parison with research on anti-cult and anti-gang initiatives http://retwt.me/1POQN
• The Impact of Emotion in the American Public’s Assessments of and Reactions to Terrorism, summary and link to full txt http://retwt.me/1POQL
• via Resource shelf: Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism Suicide Attack Database http://retwt.me/1Pr42

Retweets and other miscellaneous links

• @PhilipBecnel’s article in Pursuit Magazine called “A Private Investigator’s Take on Social Media”: http://bit.ly/cqfz0r
• RT @vaughanbell What makes a psychopath? http://is.gd/hq2f9 The Economist on recent findings.
• @navarrotells Four opportunities to detect deception in an interview: http://bit.ly/braLm1 in Psychology Today
• Mental illness in US prisons – video via @channelNvideo http://retwt.me/1Pr41
• The awesome @kfranklinphd explains what it takes to bee a forensic psychologist at her new Psychology Today blog http://retwt.me/1Pr3l

So here’s what I’ve been twittering about for the last few days. (Follow crimepsychblog here: http://twitter.com/#!/crimepsychblog)

Freebies:

• Springer is offering free access to many journals til 30 November. No registration required. Here’s Law and Human Behavior http://retwt.me/1Pl5h and here is Law and Human Behavior, 34(1), a special on interrogation and confession http://retwt.me/1Pl5F
• The entire digital archive of the Royal Society’s publications is free to access from Monday until 30th November http://bit.ly/bToROe

New issues:

• Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 38, Issue 5 (September-October 2010) http://retwt.me/1Pl7b
• J. Investigative Psych & Offender Profiling 7(3) Articles on line-ups, evidence, lie detection, witnesses http://retwt.me/1Pl6V
• Behavioral Sciences & the Law 28(5) Special on Adjudicative petencies http://retwt.me/1Pl6T
• European Journal of Criminology 7(6). Special on European criminal careers research http://retwt.me/1Pl6N
• British Journal of Criminology 50 (6) http://retwt.me/1Pl4U
• Aggressive Behavior 36(6) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1098-2337 [Also links to some free articles]
• J. Research in Crime & Delinquency 47(4) http://jrc.sagepub.com/content/vol47/issue4/
• Child Abuse and Neglect 34(1) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01452134
• Punishment & Society 12(4) http://pun.sagepub.com/content/vol12/issue4/
• Journal of Sexual Aggression 16(3) now online http://is.gd/g5ifY

Deception articles:

• The Reliability of Lie Detection Performance in Law Hum Beh 2009, currently free access til 30 Nov PDF: http://retwt.me/1Pl6M
• Outsmarting the Liars: The Benefit of Asking Unanticipated Questions in Law Hum Beh 2009, currently free access PDF: http://retwt.me/1Pl6l
• Police Lie Detection Accuracy: The Effect of Lie Scenario from Law Hum Beh 33(6) Free access til 30 Nov http://retwt.me/1Pl5J
• Aw, bless. New research in Psychol Science 21(10) shows 3-yr-olds have highly robust bias to trust what people say. http://is.gd/g5hB2
• Articles on reality monitoring, deceptive handwriting (FREE) & false memory in latest issue of Applied Cog Psy 24(8) http://is.gd/g5iAc
• Fascinating in press article on how honesty is rewarded and deception punished across cultures, in Pers Soc Psychol Bull http://is.gd/g5h3s

Other articles that caught my eye:

• From SSRN-Psychological Syndromes and Criminal Responsibility by Christopher Slobogin http://retwt.me/1Pl4G
• New in Acta Psych: Photos can create false memories if events perceived as personally plausible, less likely otherwise http://is.gd/gfqYS
• Interesting. SSRN-The Devastating Impact of Prior Crimes Evidence – And Other Myths of the Criminal Justice Process http://retwt.me/1Pl4a
• Mapping and Measuring Cybercrime: a Forum Discussion Paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1694107
• Abstract: “When serial killers go unseen: The case of Trevor Joseph Hardy” in Crime Media Culture http://ht.ly/2WO89 (via @Understanding Crime)
• CSI effect and criminals? New analysis suggests rapists are inconsistent in their forensic awareness http://is.gd/g5iZH
• New research in J. Personality & Soc Psych Emotion Guided Threat Detection: Expecting Guns Where There Are None http://is.gd/g5imo
• New in Psychol Science 21(10): alienated youth are more aggressive than others when they experience acute peer rejection. http://is.gd/g5hJH
• New: Confidence & Professional Judgment in Assessing Children’s Risk of Abuse, Research on Social Work Practice 20(6) http://is.gd/g5gY5

And finally:

• In Guardian Science: How juries are fooled by statistics http://bit.ly/a3UywM
• Karen Franklin PhD reviews “groundbreaking new book on sex offender treatment” http://retwt.me/1PeRw
• The Situationist Blog highlights SSRN paper by Davis & Leo on eliciting confessions and the risk of false confessions http://retwt.me/1PeKq

A reminder that there’s just five days left to get your hands on all Sage Journals’ content. Free trial giving full-text access to ALL Sage Journal content ends 15 Oct. Don’t miss out, register here: http://is.gd/eUubM

New research

• New issue: The latest Journal Contemporary Criminal Justice [26(4)] is a special on criminal investigation, with articles on police procedures, confessions, offender profiling and more http://is.gd/fCkNU (and it’s free til 15/10 via http://is.gd/eUubM)
• Extraordinary new analysis calculates each US homicide costs public average $17.25m, average murderer costs $24m. http://retwt.me/1P8Zy
• New journal from APA: Psychology of Violence, ing 2011. Introductory issue online now http://bit.ly/PA-vio
• “Beyond Social Capital: Triad Organized Crime in Hong Kong and China” http://ht.ly/2NL4k (via @UnderstandCrime – Aaron Jacklin)
• A new study shows that men, but not women, have an impaired ability to recognize faces when under stress http://j.mp/9skzMd [PDF] (via @mocost – Mo Costandi)

Deception

• Insurance “claim fraudsters think too much”. Some great Portsmouth Uni research covered by Irish Independent http://retwt.me/1P8R0
• “If You Want to Catch a Liar, Make Him Draw” David DiSalvo @Neuronarrative on more great Portsmouth Uni research http://retwt.me/1P8ZB
• fMRI scans of people with schizophrenia show they have same functional anatomical distinction between truth telling & deception as others http://bit.ly/aO5cI2 via @Forpsych
• In press: Promising to tell truth makes 8- 16 year-olds more honest (but lectures on morality don’t). Beh Sciences & Law http://is.gd/fCa7X

Other links of interest:

• Sam Sommers on testifying as expert witness on eyewitness identifications, in a plex case. http://retwt.me/1P8ZA
• From Docuticker: “In Their Own Words: Domestic Abuse in Later Life” training video released by DoJ http://retwt.me/1P8Zq
• RT @lenagroeger First blog post up on Scienceline! The Brain Scan Appeal: bringing neuroscience into the courtroom http://bit.ly/bH2p1Y
• RT @sciam (Scientific American) Are war crimes caused by bad apples or bad barrels? http://bit.ly/c4bFYh
• RT @vaughanbell Why do people confess to crimes they didn’t mit? http://is.gd/fKmDo Excellent NY Mag article on false confessions.
• RT @kfranklinphd (Karen Franklin) Why exempting sexually violent predator evaluators from traditional psychology ethics is a bad idea: http://t.co/VHHu4Tg
• RT @kfranklinphd (Karen Franklin) Black and female young offenders lack access to legal advice, UK study finds gu.com/p/2k6ng/tw
• RT @cjprof (Dr. Blankenship) Breakthrough in Britain’s war on drugs and crime – Crime, UK – The Independent http://goo.gl/hVqQ
• Great story by @bmahersciwriter on “a surreptitious and malicious side of science” – sabotage in the lab. http://bit.ly/c5TJDK
• RT @mindhacksblog: how murder is a social act: wp.me/ptsTD-3Lz
• RT @vaughanbell Fascinating 2003 NYT piece on medieval crime statistics, modern manners and murder. http://is.gd/fBcsW HT MH reader Alex C
• RT @Slate A New Orleans man who spent 29 years in solitary for a crime he didn’t mit http://slate.me/aREfbu
• RT @vaughanbell Insight into pimping from interviews. DePaul University study. pdf: http://is.gd/fvO0Q Sad and surprising via @kfranklinphd

New issues:

• J. Contemporary Criminal Justice 26(2) focuses on General Strain Theory http://ccj.sagepub.com/content/vol26/issue2/
• Deviant Behavior 31(8) crime & solidarity, female prisoners, criminalisation of midwives http://is.gd/ftsGh
• Victims & Offenders: Volume 5 Issue 4 http://is.gd/ftsvr
• Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy 20(3) http://is.gd/ftsjo

New articles:

• “When children mit atrocities in war”, Global Change, Peace & Security 22(3) http://is.gd/ftsro
• People with higher Need for Cognition are more accurate at classifying truthful & deceptive msgs J Exp Soc Psy 46(6) http://is.gd/fts8u
• New research on personality, cognitive ability & motivation of academic cheaters. In J Exp Psych: Applied, Vol 16(3) http://is.gd/ftrRw
• Violent & nonviolent video games produce opposing effects on aggressive & prosocial outes J Exp Soc Psy 46(6) http://is.gd/ftrNL

And some retweets and other links of interest:

• RT @SocialPsych: Violent Video Games Increase Aggression Long After Games End http://bit.ly/9V4aOh
• RT @DrShock Bid to find cyberstalking victims – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11404284
• RT @Forpsych: Is there a cure for Britain’s most dangerous criminals? Gwen Adshead inThe Independent http://ind.pn/dCeD6Z
• RT @navarrotells: Some thoughts on the body language of deceivers: http://bit.ly/8igh89
• Joe Navarro @navarrotells picks apart the CEO CFO deception study and has some words of warning about the conclusions http://bit.ly/bcvoq0
• Depressing mentary in Guardian’s CiF: “No wonder rapists walk” by Joseph Harker http://gu.com/p/2jpzn/tw
• “Forensic science was not always CSI-style teamwork” by Deborah Blum in Guardian Science Blogs http://gu.com/p/2jq49/tw
• “A brainwave for catching a criminal?” @mocost posts at Guardian Science Blogs http://gu.com/p/2jzeg/tw
• On the Leonard Lopate show: “Negotiating evil”: Mitchell B. Reiss on whether we should negotiate with terrorists http://is.gd/ftQ2e

• Why Jessica Stern studies violence: Raped age 15; police investign over whn father said she "seemed to have forgotten it" http://is.gd/eJsBO #
• Workplace violence / terrorism: DoD releases report “Lessons Learned from Fort Hood.” http://is.gd/eJts3 #
• Video via @WRY999 Jim Fallon discusses Neuroscience of Murder & Aggression "Exploring the Mind of a Killer". Fascinating. http://is.gd/eJtWg #

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• New issue: Crime & Delinquency 56(4). Articles on Juvenile justice, munity policing, released Inmates, risk, control. http://is.gd/eHXa8 #
• New research: Detecting Deceptive Discussions in Conference Calls. Linguistic analysis method 50-65% accuracy. SSRN via http://is.gd/eI0bA #
• New study On Violence Prevention And Intervention Employing Street Outreach numberswiki.

  Workers. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/198541.php #

• Press release (bad spelling), new book: Female Sexual Offenders: Theory, Assessment and Treatment ed. by Gannon & Cortoni http://is.gd/eI0oX #
• RT @ResearchBlogs Links between animal cruelty and domestic violence http://goo.gl/fb/b8rO2 #

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• New research: Turning a blind eye to double blind line-ups Wright et al in Applied Cog Psych 24: 849–867 http://is.gd/eCFs4 #
• New research: Effect of suspicion & liars' strategies on reality monitoring Gnisci, Caso & Vrij in more info

  App Cog Psy 24:762–773 http://is.gd/eCFyA #

• Call for papers now open for APLS, EAPL & ANZAPPL International Congress on Psych & Law, March 2-5th, 2011 in Miami FL http://is.gd/eCFVh #

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