Offenders' Memories of Violent Crimes (Wiley Series in Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law)

"Claims of amnesia for violent and sexual crimes are common as guilty suspects allege memory loss to avoid punishment. The key issue then becomes whether the memory loss is genuine or feigned. Offenders' Memories of Violent Crimes takes a new approach to the subject by focusing not on eyewitness or bystander testimonies, but on the testimonies of the offenders themselves - or, more specifically, on the way they remember and relate their violent crimes. Under the guidance of Sven Christianson, expert contributors explore offenders' memories with particular emphasis on theory and empirical research across areas such as memorial patterns, instrumental and reactive offenders, crime-related amnesia, crime-related brain activation, detecting lies and deceit and interviewing techniques."--Provided by publisher Theoretical aspects of offenders' memories Searching for offenders' memories of violent crimes / Sven Christianson, Ingrid Freij and Eva Von Vogelsang Memory formation in offenders: perspectives from a biopsychosocial model of eyewitness memory / Hugues Herve, Barry Cooper, and John Yuille An investigation of violent offenders' memories for instrumental and reactive violence / Barry Cooper and John Yuille The nature of memories of violent crime amongyoung offenders / Ceri Evans and Gillian Mezey Memory for murder: the qualities and credibility of homicide narratives by perpetrators / Steven Porter, Michael Woodworth, and Naomi L. Doucette Evaluating offenders' memories Neuroimaging and crime / Hans J. Markowitsch and Elke Kalbe Amnesia for homicide as a form of malingering / Harald Merckelbach and Sven Christianson The role of malingering and expectations in claims of crime-related amnesia / Kim Van Oorsouw and Maaike Cima Evaluating the authencity of crime-related amnesia / Marko Jelicic and Harald Merckelbach Interviewing offenders Interrogating suspects of crimes / Carole Hill and Amina Memon Interrogations and confessions / Gisli H. Gudjonsson Interviewing to detect deception / Aldert Vrij and Pr Anders Granhag Crime features and interrogation behaviour among homicide offenders / Pekka Santtila and Tom Pakkanen Memory-enhancing techniques for interviewing crime suspects / Ronald P. Fisher and Valerie Perez Interviewing offenders: a therapeutic jurisprudential approach / Ulf Holmberg, Sven Christianson and David Wexler Index.

Claims of amnesia for violent and sexual crimes are extremely common as guilty suspects often allege memory loss to avoid punishment.  The important issue in each case then becomes whether such memory loss is genuine or feigned. Offenders’ Memories of Violent Crimes takes a different approach to the subject by focussing not on eyewitness or bystander testimonies, but on the testimonies of the offenders, or, more specifically, offenders’ remembering and telling about their violent crimes.

The book will explore offenders’ memories with particular emphasis on theory and empirical research on such topics as memorial patterns in perpetrators, instrumental and reactive offenders, crime-related amnesia, crime-related brain activation, detecting lies and deceit and interviewing techniques.  Organised into three parts: theoretical aspects of offenders’ memories; evaluating offenders’ memories and interviewing offenders, this timely volume will further the understanding of criminal behaviour.  It will be essential reading for psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, social workers and all students and practitioners of clinical psychology, forensic psychology, and law enforcement.

Published in the Wiley Series in the Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law

Series Editors:

Professor Graham Davies, University of Leicester, UK,

Professor Ray Bull, University of Leicester, UK.

Offenders’ Memories of Violent Crimes......Page 4 Contents......Page 8 About the Editor......Page 10 List of Contributors......Page 12 Series Preface......Page 16 Preface......Page 18 Part 1 Theoretical Aspects of Offenders’ Memories......Page 22 1 Searching for Offenders’ Memories of Violent Crimes......Page 24 2 Memory Formation in Offenders: Perspectives from a Biopsychosocial Model of Eyewitness Memory......Page 58 3 An Investigation of Violent Offenders’ Memories for Instrumental and Reactive Violence......Page 96 4 The Nature of Memories of Violent Crime among Young Offenders......Page 120 5 Memory for Murder: The Qualities and Credibility of Homicide Narratives by Perpetrators......Page 136 Part 2 Evaluating Offenders’ Memories......Page 156 6 Neuroimaging and Crime......Page 158 Colour plate......Page 186 7 Amnesia for Homicide as a Form of Malingering......Page 190 8 The Role of Malingering and Expectations in Claims of Crime-related Amnesia......Page 216 9 Evaluating the Authenticity of Crime-related Amnesia......Page 240 Part 3 Interviewing Offenders......Page 260 10 Interviewing Suspects of Crime......Page 262 11 Interrogations and Confessions......Page 284 12 Interviewing to Detect Deception......Page 304 13 Crime Features and Interrogation Behaviour among Homicide Offenders......Page 330 14 Memory-enhancing Techniques for Interviewing Crime Suspects......Page 354 15 Interviewing Offenders: A Therapeutic Jurisprudential Approach......Page 380 Index......Page 398

Claims of amnesia for violent and sexual crimes are common as guilty suspects allege memory loss to avoid punishment.The key issuethen becomes whether the memory loss is genuine or feigned. Offenders' Memories of Violent Crimes takes a new approach to the subject by focusing not on eyewitness or bystander testimonies, but on the testimonies of the offenders themselves - or, more specifically, on the way they remember and relate their violent crimes. Under the guidance ofSven Christianson, expert contributors explore offenders' memories with particular emphasis on theory and empirical research across areas such as memorial patterns, instrumental and reactive offenders, crime-related amnesia, crime-related brain activation, detecting lies and deceit and interviewing techniques.

Violent offenders often claim amnesia in order to avoid punishment. It is important for investigators and juries to ascertain whether such amnesia is genuine or feigned - an offender with amnesia is not able to enter a plea, and issues of automatism are raised