Forensic Psychology category: 378 books
Detecting Deception
Current Challenges and Cognitive Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Detecting Deception offers a state-of-the-art guide to the detection of deception with a focus on the ways in which new cognitive psychology-based approaches can improve practice and results in the field.
Includes comprehensive coverage of the latest scientific developments in the detection of...
Serial Homicide
Profiling of Victims and Offenders for Policing
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This Brief provides an overview and history of the definition of serial homicide, from the perspectives of psychology, medicine, criminology and forensics. It reviews research to provide a standard definition of serial homicide (as opposed to multiple or mass homicide), and provide insights on profiles...
Historical Memories in Culture, Politics and the Future
The Making of History and the World to Come
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This book is written to satisfy the individual’s desire for intellectual stimulation, to sow in the mind the seed of new ideas, and involve the reader in productive debates. It covers culture, history and the future, raising questions, presenting arguments and engaging the enquirer in reflection....
by Irving B. Weiner
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2003
This second edition of Irving Weiner's classic comprehensive, clinician-friendly guide to utilizing the Rorschach for personality description has been revised to reflect both recent modifications in the Rorschach Comprehensive System and new evidence concerning the soundness and utility of Rorschach...
Writing to Clients and Referring Professionals about Psychological Assessment Results
A Handbook of Style and Grammar
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This book is the first on the craft of effective writing structured expressly for the psychologist-assessor. Author J. B. Allyn, a professional writer who specializes in psychology, combines reference book with tutorial. She blends information on the qualities that create a writer’s unique presence...
Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse
Knowledge, Power, and the Cultural Conditions of Victimhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse is a groundbreaking study into gender, sexuality and victimhood. It examines the cultural conditions of possibility for FSA victimhood as a means to advance contemporary critical understandings of the role of gender and sexuality as instruments of modern power. As the...
The Ethics of Total Confinement
A Critique of Madness, Citizenship, and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
In three parts, this volume in the AP-LS series explores the phenomena of captivity and risk management, guided and informed by the theory, method, and policy of psychological jurisprudence. The authors present a controversial thesis that demonstrates how the forces of captivity and risk management...
Objection
Disgust, Morality, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Why do we consider incest wrong, even when it occurs between consenting adults unable to have children? Why are words that gross us out more likely to be deemed "obscene" and denied the protection of the First Amendment? In a world where a gruesome photograph can decisively influence a jury and homosexual...
Overcoming Parent-Child Contact Problems
Family-Based Interventions for Resistance, Rejection, and Alienation
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
In recent years there has been heightened interest in the clinical and legal management of families in which children resist contact with one parent and become aligned with the other following divorce. Families affected by these dynamics require disproportionate resources and time from mental health...
Subjectivity in Motion
Life, Art, and Movement in the Work of Hermann Rorschach
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The motif of human movement has long been understood as central to Hermann Rorschach’s strikingly innovative inkblot experiment. But owing to Rorschach’s untimely death a year after publishing his famous work, Psychodiagnostics, the world has lacked an adequate understanding of how he came to...
by Unni Turrettini
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
For the first time, the life and mind of Anders Behring Breivik, the most unexpected of mass murderers, is examined and set in the context of wider criminal psychology.
*Winner of the 2016 Silver Falchion Award for Best Nonfiction Adult Book*
July 22, 2011 was the darkest day in Norway’s...
by Stanley L. Brodsky, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
A pragmatic guide to a growing area of professional practice, this book describes the multiple roles of the trial consultant and provides tools for carrying them out competently and ethically. Leading authority Stanley Brodsky uses examples from actual trials and depositions to illustrate how knowledge...
Hearts of Darkness
Why Kids Are Becoming Mass Murderers and How We Can Stop It
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
From Sandy Hook, Connecticut, to Aurora, Colorado, to Tucson, Arizona, this nation has been racked from coast to coast with mass shootings perpetrated by criminals with sick minds. Authors Dr. Liebert and Dr. Birnes believe the increase in violence is an epidemic and dig deep into the causes of mental...
by John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Robert K. Ressler
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Who are the men committing the rising number of serial homicides in the U.S. -- and why do they kill? The increase in these violent crimes over the past decade has created an urgent need for more and better information about these men: their crime scene patterns, violent acts, and above all, their...