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TY - JOUR
T1 - Analysing forensic processes
T2 - taking time into account
AU - Taylor, Paul
AU - Jacques, Karen
AU - Giebels, Ellen
AU - Levine, Mark
AU - Gendreau, Paul
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - A great deal of forensic psychology concerns sequences of behaviours or events. In this paper, we review some recent efforts to examine forensic issues as sequences, discuss some of the contemporary methodologies involved, and highlight some of the lessons that emerge from this research. Specifically, we show: (i) how research on public violence has benefited from studying incidents as patterns of cues and responses among perpetrators and bystanders; (ii) how regularities in the histories of those who undertake suicide terrorism may be identified by mapping their life events on a graphical timeline; and (iii) how sequence-based correlation coefficients make it possible to test detailed theories about the ways perpetrators respond to the various influence attempts of police negotiators. We conclude by encouraging forensic psychologists toconceptualise their own areas of investigation as a sequence of events rather than a collection of variables.
AB - A great deal of forensic psychology concerns sequences of behaviours or events. In this paper, we review some recent efforts to examine forensic issues as sequences, discuss some of the contemporary methodologies involved, and highlight some of the lessons that emerge from this research. Specifically, we show: (i) how research on public violence has benefited from studying incidents as patterns of cues and responses among perpetrators and bystanders; (ii) how regularities in the histories of those who undertake suicide terrorism may be identified by mapping their life events on a graphical timeline; and (iii) how sequence-based correlation coefficients make it possible to test detailed theories about the ways perpetrators respond to the various influence attempts of police negotiators. We conclude by encouraging forensic psychologists toconceptualise their own areas of investigation as a sequence of events rather than a collection of variables.
M3 - Journal article
VL - 8
SP - 45
EP - 57
JO - Issues in Forensic Psychology
JF - Issues in Forensic Psychology
ER -