In 1925, the German biologist and philosopher Hans Driesch published a booklet entitled The Crisis in Psychology. It was originally published in English and was based on lectures given at various universities in China, Japan and the USA. The "crisis" in psychology of that time, in Driesch's opinion, lies in the necessity to decide about "the road which psychology is to follow in the future". Th...

In July 2006 the Sentencing Advisory Council released a research paper entitled Myths and Misconceptions: Public Opinion versus Public Judgment about Sentencing (Gelb, 2006). The paper represented the culmination of a year-long project that was designed to examine and critically evaluate the current state of knowledge about public opinion on sentencing, as well as the methodological issues surr...