Future of Forensic Psychology

Sara Landström is a Professor in Psychology at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research interest is legal and investigative psychology. She has published over 50 research papers in international peer-review journals, edited a Swedish handbook on legal psychology and frequently serves as an expert witness in criminal cases, and as an expert in governmental investigations.Pär Anders Granhag is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has been working in the field of legal psychology for over 30 years and has published over 300 research papers and ten books. He has served as an expert witness in over 50 legal cases and has given seminars to different groups within the legal field for 25 years.Peter van Koppen is a Psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Legal Psychology at the Faculty of Law of VU University Amsterdam and professor of Legal Psychology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He has served as expert witness in many cases, advised police teams frequently and published 35 books, 125 articles and 100 chapters in edited volumes on various subjects in legal psychology.

• Contributor biographiesIntroduction by Sara Landström, Pär Anders Granhag and Peter van KoppenPart one: Eyewitness memory and testimonyChapter 1. Misreporting episodic memories: Causes and consequences for the criminal legal system by Joanne Rechdan and Andrew ClarkChapter 2. Intersections between metamemory and eyewitness testimonyby Renan Benigno Chapter 3. The effects of acute stress on eyewitness memoryby Carey Marr Part two: Investigative interviewingChapter 4. Cross-cultural investigative interviewsby Nkansah AnakwahChapter 5. Cognitive barriers to obtaining information during investigative interviewsby Nicole Adams-QuackenbushChapter 6. Lack of cooperation in witness interviewsby Alejandra De La Fuente VilarChapter 7. Priming in investigative interviewing: A critical reviewby David A. NeequayeChapter 8. Pragmatic inferences in investigative interviewingby Meghana SrivatsavChapter 9. The discouraging past and promising future of research on innocent suspects’ alibisby Shiri Portnoy Chapter 10. Interviewing suspects with the Strategic Use of Evidence (SUE) techniqueby Serra TekinPart three: Deception detection and legal decision makingChapter 11. Lie detection in forensic interviewsby Haneen Deeb and Aleksandras IzotovasChapter 12. Trust, doubt, and symptom validityby Irena BoskovicChapter 13. Risk assessment and the influence of biasby Jennifer KamorowskiChapter 14. Tunnel vision and falsification in legal decision-makingby Enide MaeghermanChapter 15. Fact-finding in asylum casesby Tanja Van Veldhuizen

Fresh perspectives and up-to-date research on leading topics in experimental forensic psychology (eyewitnesses, investigative interviewing and deception detection) delivered by an international team of experts. A terrific resource for both researchers and students. Steven Penrod, Distinguished Professor of psychology at John jay College of criminal justice, New York, NY, USA The breadth and depth of research in legal psychology today is perfectly captured here by international scholars who bring fresh new perspectives to the field. Each contribution provides a synthesis of the psychological factors and expert knowledge that can assist legal decision makers from investigation to outcome in court. Amina Memon, Professor of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK