Contents

Foreword by Professor Elizabeth F. Loftus

Part 1: Nordic Light on Forensic Psychology
1 Forensic psychology in a Nordic context, Pär Anders Granhag
2 Legal procedures in the Nordic countries and USA: a comparative
overview, Ulf Stridbeck and Pär Anders Granhag
Part 2: Investigative Psychology
3 Investigators’ decision-making, Karl Ask and Laurence Alison
4 Interviewing victims and witnesses, Ron Fisher, Stephen J. Ross and Brian S. Cahill
5 Interviewing to detect deception, Pär Anders Granhag and Aldert Vrij
6 False confessions in the Nordic countries: background and current landscape, Gisli H. Gudjonsson and Jon Fridrik Sigurdsson
7 Children’s memory and testimony, Annika Melinder and Julia Korkman
8 Social influence on eyewitness memory, Pär Anders Granhag, Amina Memon and Emma Roos af Hjelmsäter
9 Offender profiling, Pekka Santtila
10 Stalking, Helinä Häkkänen-Nyholm
Part 3: Psychology in court and beyond
11 Psychological perspectives on the evaluation of evidence, Pär Anders Granhag and Ulf Stridbeck
12 Psycho-legal aspects of visual courtroom technology, Sara Landström
13 Ethnicity and gender biases in the courtroom, Torun Lindholm and Jenny Yourstone Cederwall
14 Displayed emotions in court: effects on credibility judgements, Svein Magnussen and Ellen Wessel
15 Assessing reliability by analysing the verbal content: the case of Sweden, Leif A. Strömwall
16 Eyewitness confidence, Carl Martin Allwood
17 Victimology, Sara Landström, Karl Ask and Leif A. Strömwall
Index