Forensic Psychology category: 378 books
by Louis Howell
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Psychology - Forensic Psychology, Penal System, Boston University, course: Research Methods CJ 703, language: English, abstract: In this work, several little essays deal with the subject of crime and criminal behavior. It will be looked into criminological theory...
Evidence-based Investigative Interviewing
Applying Cognitive Principles
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
For as long as we have been researching human memory, psychologists have been investigating how people remember and forget. This research is regularly drawn upon in our legal systems. Historically, we have relied upon eyewitness memory to help judge responsibility and adjudicate truth, but memory...
by Sarah Burkhardt
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Psychology - Forensic Psychology, Penal System, grade: B, The University of Liverpool, language: English, abstract: The high number of inmates in American prison facilities might explain why thousands of men and women have spouses or partners in jails....
Reducing Interpersonal Violence
A Psychological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
There are many types of interpersonal violence that can lead to short- and long-term physical and psychological effects on those involved. Reducing Interpersonal Violence reflects on the World Health Organization’s stance that interpersonal violence is a public health problem and considers what...
A Dark Night in Aurora
Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
James Holmes killed or wounded seventy people in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Only one man was allowed to record extensive interviews with the shooter. This is what he found.
On July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, a man in dark body armor and a gas mask entered a midnight premiere of...
Handbook of Violence Risk Assessment and Treatment
New Approaches for Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
"This book describes violence risk assessment in both juveniles and adults, incorporating dynamic and static factors, along with treatment alternativesÖ..Research and practice are combined quite nicely, along with assessment and treatment. There is something for everyone here." Score: 91, 4 stars
--Doody's
"Forensic...
Assessing Risk
A Relational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Assessing Risk: A Relational Approachoffers the practitioner a novel framework for understanding the complex and subtle issues involved in assessing and managing risks related to violence and sexual offending. The authors draw on their considerable experience working with high risk individuals in...
Managing Fear
The Law and Ethics of Preventive Detention and Risk Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Managing Fear examines the growing use of risk assessment as it relates to preventive detention and supervision schemes for offenders perceived to be at a high risk of re-offending, individuals with severe mental illness, and suspected terrorists. It outlines a number of legislative regimes in common...
Alcohol-Related Violence
Prevention and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
New in the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology, Alcohol-Related Violence: Prevention and Treatment presents an authoritative collection of the most recent assessment and treatment strategies for alcohol-related aggression and violence.
Features contributions from leading international...
International Human Rights and Mental Disability Law
When the Silenced are Heard
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Society is largely blind-often willfully blind-to the ongoing violations of international human rights law when it comes to the treatment of persons with mental disabilities. Despite a robust set of international law principles, standards and doctrines, and the recent ratification of the United Nations'...
Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong
Inside the Mind of a Female Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, as one judge described her, was “a coldly calculated criminal recidivist and serial killer.” She had experienced a lifetime of murder, mayhem, and mental illness. She killed two boyfriends, including one whose body was stuffed in a freezer. And she was convicted in one...
by Will Cupchik PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
For over 39 years, psychologist Dr. Will Cupchik has investigated the atypical theft behavior of usually honest, generally intelligent, often successful and sometimes even wealthy and/or prominent members of society, persons who he and his original co-investigator, psychiatrist Dr Don J Atcheson termed...
Understanding Violent Criminals: Insights from the Front Lines of Law Enforcement
Insights from the Front Lines of Law Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Violent crime remains a major problem in America: in 2011, there were more than 1.2 million violent crimes committed in the United States. To better grasp the complex reasons behind this disturbing statistic, author David J. Thomas—a police officer and forensic psychologist—conducted an in-depth...
The Routledge International Handbook of Human Aggression
Current Issues and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Drawing upon international expertise, and including some of the most well-known academics and practitioners in the field, The Routledge International Handbook of Human Aggression is the first reference work to fully capture how our understanding of aggression has been refined and reconceptualised...