A Survey of Police Officers’ and Prosecutors’ Beliefs About Crime Victim Behaviors

Judges', lay judges', and police officers' beliefs about factors affecting children's testimony about sexual abuse.

The authors examined Swedish judges', lay judges', and police officers' beliefs about factors that may complicate or facilitate children's reports of sexual abuse. Participants (N = 562) rated potential complicating and facilitating factors and freely reported which criteria they considered important when assessing the reliability of child witnesses. The groups had similar opinions regarding wh...

Strong, but Wrong: Lay People’s and Police Officers’ Beliefs about Verbal and Nonverbal Cues to Deception

The present study investigated the beliefs of students and police officers about cues to deception. A total of 95 police officers and 104 undergraduate students filled out a questionnaire addressing beliefs about cues to deception. Twenty-eight verbal cues were included in the questionnaire, all extracted from verbal credibility assessment tools (i.e., CBCA, RM, and SCAN). We investigated to wh...

Mentally Retarded Persons Offences; Causes of Crime and Prevention from the Perspective of Police Officers, Lawyers and Judges

This study aims to identify and prioritize the most serious crimes committed by mentally retarded people, causes and factors to prevent the commission of a crime from the perspective of police officers, lawyers and judges are doing... -member , which included set high standards seventh. Results: Results of this study showed that Lowest and the most frequent crimes committed by mentally retarded...

the relationship between locus of control and iranian efl university students’ beliefs about language learning

this exploratory study aimed to investigate a possible relationship between learners’ beliefs about language learning and one of their personality traits; that is,locus of control (loc). both variables, beliefs and locus of control, are assumed to influence the language learning process. the internal control index (ici) and the beliefs about language learning inventory (balli) were administered...

Do police officers have accurate information about suicide?