Forensic Psychology category: 378 books
Tell Me What Happened
Structured Investigative Interviews of Child Victims and Witnesses
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Investigation of child abuse is often hampered by doubts about the reliability of children as only sources of information. Over the last decade, consensus has been reached about children's limitations and competencies. New for the Wiley Series in the Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law, Tell Me...
Adolescents, Media, and the Law
What Developmental Science Reveals and Free Speech Requires
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007
There is much controversy about the dangers of a free media when it comes to children and adolescents. Many believe that this constitutional right should be amended, altered, or revoked entirely to prevent the young from being negatively influenced. Graphic violence, sexual content, and the depiction...
by Jacqueline B. Helfgott
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
An in-depth interdisciplinary perspective on psychopathy suitable for those interested in criminology and criminal justice, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and other social science as well as general knowledge.
• Offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary perspective on psychopathy, useful...
Treating Sexual Offenders
An Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Through extensive consideration of current research, theory and practice, Treating Sexual Offenders provides a guide to the assessment, treatment, and evaluation of a number of different disorders.
Provides therapists with the means to have a continued positive impact on the sex offender, from...
Critical Perspectives on Coercive Interventions
Law, Medicine and Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Coercive medico-legal interventions are often employed to prevent people deemed to be unable to make competent decisions about their health, such as minors, people with mental illness, disability or problematic alcohol or other drug use, from harming themselves or others. These interventions can entail...
by Jennifer King
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Il carattere essenziale del Disturbo di Personalità Antisociale è un modello pervasivo di mancanza di riguardo e di violazione dei diritti degli altri. E' caratterizzato da una inosservanza per gli obblighi sociali e da una mancanza di preoccupazione per i sentimenti degli altri. C'è un forte squilibrio...
by Amy J. Posey, Lawrence S. Wrightsman
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
In its roughly 25 years of existence, the trial consulting profession has grown dramatically in membership, recognition, and breadth of practice. What began as a small activist group of social scientists volunteering their expertise to assist in the defense of Vietnam War protestors has evolved into...
Praediktoren von Aggression
Eine Untersuchung der Faktoren Wahrnehmung und Regulation von Emotionen, Ambiguitaetstoleranz, Selbstwertschaetzung und Selbstwertdiskrepanz bei Patienten aus der Forensischen und der Allgemeinen Psychiatrie
Language: German
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Aggression ist ein Phänomen, mit dem sich bereits zahlreiche Disziplinen der Psychologie beschäftigt haben. Auch wenn in der aktuellen Berichterstattung der Medien der Eindruck entstehen mag, dass aggressives Verhalten ein Merkmal der aktuellen Gesellschaft ist und fortwährend zunimmt, so nimmt...
Crime in a Psychological Context
From Career Criminals to Criminal Careers
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
This engaging book presents a contextual psychological interpretation of crime. It covers essential topics including psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder, and criminal lifestyle. The author's compelling analysis explains criminal behavior, by showing how the criminal lifestyle is capable of...
by Feggy Ostrosky Shejet
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Antes de discutir el comportamiento criminal, debemos definir el concepto de crimen. En términos generales, el crimen está definido por los actos, o los fallos al actuar, que determinada sociedad ha decidido castigar. Es una forma de prohibir la conducta que se considera en oposición a los intereses...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
The fifth volume in the Mathematical Cognition and Learning series focuses on informal learning environments and other parental influences on numerical cognitive development and formal instructional interventions for improving mathematics learning and performance. The chapters cover the use of numerical...
Mothers Accused and Abused
Addressing Complex Psychological Needs
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
*Mothers Accused and Abused: Addressing Complex Psychological Needs brings together stories *about mothers who are accused of harming, and in some cases killing, their children, children who subsequently harm or kill others and the challenges to professionals who work with them.
Contributors...
Containing Madness
Gender and ‘Psy’ in Institutional Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2018
This collection explores the discursive production and treatment of mental distress as it is mediated by gender and race in different institutional contexts. Featuring analyses of the prison, the psychiatric hospital, immigration detention, and other locales, this book explores the multiple interlocking...
by Vassiliki-Piyi CHRISTOPOULOU
Language: French
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Alors que les polémiques concernant le père fondateur de la « science de l'inconscient » n'ont jamais cessé de remplir les rubriques de l'actualité culturelle et scientifique (Livre Noir de la psychanalyse, révisionnismes, confrontation avec les dernières avancées des neurosciences et des...