The third issue of the online journal "Psychology and Law" for 2026 has been released. The new issue brings together works by leading Russian and foreign specialists in the fields of legal psychology, penitentiary psychology, and interdisciplinary research. The issue opens with the section "Methodological Problems of Legal Psychology," which introduces a shortened version of the methodology for diagnosing dispositions toward violent extremism. It covers issues of age and gender differences in the relationship between antisocial creativity and cognitive personality characteristics, as well as the normative model of a psychologist's professional activity.
The authors of the section "Penitentiary Psychology and the Practice of Serving Criminal Sentences" discuss the particularities of attitudes toward family relationships among male prisoners who have previously served time. The issue also addresses questions of social identity and stigmatization in the context of coping behavior among prisoners.
In the section 'Legal Psychology of Childhood,' the authors talk about the connection between aggressive behavior and adolescents' perceptions of their parents, as well as the role of hostility and social distrust as predictors of deviant peer affiliation in teenagers. The 'Interdisciplinary Research' section presents comprehensive studies on restorative justice in cases of juvenile offenses and beyond.
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Natalia Vladimirovna Meshkova on age- and gender-related characteristics of the link between antisocial creativity and cognitive personality traits.
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