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Intro -- Preface -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Part I: Eyewitness Testimony -- The Perceived Credibility of Rape Victims During a Police Interview: An Experiment among Victim Assistance Workers -- The Perceived Truthfulness of Children's and Adults' Testimony: The Oath versus the Competency Test -- The Relation between Consistency and Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony -- The "Authenticity Error" in Real Lineup Procedures. Effects of Suspect-Status and Corresponding Psychological Dissimilarities between Target Person and Distractors: An Experimental Study -- Misinformation Methodologies: Explaining the Effects of Errant Information -- Previous Knowledge and Delay in the Recall of Filmed Events -- Effects of Preparation on Internal and External Memories -- Experimentally Induced Person Mix-ups Through Media Exposure and Ways to Avoid Them -- Detecting Fact from Fallacy in Child and Adult Witness Accounts -- Is There Truth in the Eye of the Beholder? Causal Illusions in Children and Adults -- Part II: Interviewing -- From Denial to Admission in Police Questioning of Suspects -- Good Practice for Video Recorded Interviews with Child Witnesses for Use in Criminal Proceedings -- Information Enhancement and Credibility Assessment of Child Statements: The Impact of the Cognitive Interview Technique on Criteria-Based Content Analysis -- Enhancing Children's Eyewitness Testimony with the Cognitive Interview -- An Empirical Test of the Mnemonic Components of the Cognitive Interview -- The Cognitive Interview - Does it Work? -- Part III: Children in the Legal System -- The Development of Children's Understanding of Legal Principles -- Psychological Evaluation of Changes in Testimony Given by Sexually Abused Juveniles -- Expert Evidence in Child Sexual Abuse Criminal Cases in Canada and the United States.

In this article we examine the debate among legal experts in China over the recent practice of death penalty criminal reconciliation (DPCR), which is a program that seeks to reconcile an offender convicted of a capital offense with the victim by requiring the offender to meet with, apologize, and pay economic compensation to the victim in exchange for a death sentence commuted to life in prison. Proponents of DPCR believe it provides important financial and emotional benefits to victims, helps rehabilitate offenders, and alleviates the wider social tensions generated by the offense committed. Opponents argue that DPCR violates the basic principle of equality before the law because the decisions reached using this process are sometimes influenced by public opinion and often biased toward those who can afford to pay compensation. These critics suggest that DPCR should be replaced with a comprehensive system of state compensation for victims of capital offenses. (Asian Perspect/GIGA)

As its title suggests, Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free is a wide-ranging critique of our criminal justice system. While it is hardly the first, it offers a number of distinctive insights. Most of the now voluminous work on this topic is written by scholars, policy analysts, or journalists and is addressed to the legislature or the executive. This certainly makes sense. External observers are well positioned to critique a system that punishes without purpose, and the major determinants of its dysfunction are the legislature that enacts the criminal law and the executive that enforces it. In contrast, the author of this book, Jed S. Rakoff, is a sitting federal judge, and he provides a specifically judicial perspective. This appears in at least two of the book's most notable features: its juxtaposition of its subject matter and its discussion of the way that general trends in our criminal law impact the work of judges.

The paper deals with the problem of countering the illicit drug trafficking, psychotropic substances, their precursors and analogues in the Eurasian Economic Union countries. The authors, basing on the statistical data analysis, demonstrated an increase in the number of drug addicts; it is shown that drug addiction is a global problem nowadays. The constant increase of registered criminal acts related to drugs and their cross-border nature make it necessary to develop cooperation in combating the illicit distribution of drugs, harmonizing and unifying legal norms in this area, especially within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union. A comparative legal analysis of the criminal law governing liability for drug trafficking in the EAEU countries shows the diversity of legislative structures in the key elements of the crimes under consideration. The issues of personal non-medical use liability, the subject of crimes, the criminalization of individual acts related to drug trafficking, should be the subject of discussion on developing a unified approach of criminal law to counter the analyzed crimes in the EAEU countries.