Criminal or forensic psychology

Working with Sex Offenders is a unique book which brings together leading practitioners in the field to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date distillation of relevant guidance to assist anyone who works with sex offenders.

The Politics of Prison Crowding investigates recent transformations in Italy's penal system to make the key analytical observation that conditions of overcrowding have become the 'new normal' under which the modern prison system continues to operate and deliver punishment.

Romantic Terrorism offers an innovative methodology in exploring the ways in which domestic violence offenders terrorise their victims.

This authoritative volume explores different perspectives on economic and social justice and the challenges presented by and within the criminal justice system.

Creative criminals commit highly effective, novel crimes.

This book provides a concise-yet-comprehensive overview of the broad-ranging topics in the field of violence and aggression.

Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, Eleventh Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial coverage of interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance.

This volume demonstrates how multimethod forensic assessment with the Rorschach adds incremental validity, insight, and practical value.

This research monograph provides a comparative analysis of juvenile court outcomes, exploring the influence of contextual factors on juvenile punishment across systems and communities.

This book develops principles of proper sentence justification, presents results of comparative empirical study on sentence justifications in the post-communist countries and provides practical measures to improve the current situation.

This book bridges the gap between basic science, which deals with general concepts of aggression and its neurobiological foundations, and law enforcement as one of the applied fields of aggression research.

Working with Sex Offenders in Prisons and through Release to the Community is the first study of its kind to look at a wide range of issues and problems relating to the management of sexual offenders in prisons and their reintegration into the community.

Die moderne Beschwerdenvalidierung zielt auf eine Unterscheidung zwischen glaubhaften, validen und nichtglaubhaften, ungültigen Darstellungen von Gesundheitsstörungen und ihren Folgen ab, zunächst unabhängig von deren Genese und Bedingungsrahmen.

In this study of pre-trial clinical assessment, Robert Menzies examines a key element in our system of criminal justice and finds is wanting.

In recent times the question of private sector involvement in public affairs has become framed in altogether new terms.

President Obama has declared that the greatest terrorist threat which America faces is attacks by lone wolf terrorists.

In their journeys to prison and community re-entry, women leaving prison tend to share overarching challenges connected to lives of poverty, trauma, and abuse.

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.

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When is it fair to hold young people criminally responsible?

Advanced Research Methods for Applied Psychology provides a comprehensive discussion of 21 key topics for the completion of an applied psychology (or similar) research thesis/project.

What causes people to commit violent crimes?

What causes people to commit violent crimes?

Aggressive and violent patients are an increasing concern for mental health professionals.

Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Warren McCleskey.

This book provides an integrative and jargon-free understanding of the phenomenon of sexual serial killing to a wide readership.

This book provides a critical assessment of strategies to control the illegal conduct of corporations.

Few subjects provoke as much public fascination and political concern as crime, criminality, criminology, and criminal justice policy and practice.

This thoroughly updated and revised new edition provides an essential overview of a full range of psychological contributions to the understanding of crime and the processes of dealing with offenders and helping their victims.

This book contributes to and broadens the field of Border Criminology, by bringing together a collection of chapters from leading scholars engaged in cross-national and comparative conversations on bordered penality and crimmigration practices, with a specific focus on research conducted in places that may be considered peripheral and semi-peripheral jurisdictions.

Winner of the 2008 British Society of Criminology Book PrizeSex offenders, particularly those who offend against children, feature prominently in contemporary law and order debates.

The second of two volumes, this book about the criminology of Carlo Morselli includes a diversity of contributions that study the social inter-dependence of criminal phenomena.

Theories of Terrorism explains and advances the major theories of terrorism that address issues of becoming a terrorist, being a terrorist, and leaving terrorism, in a clear and accessible format.

Sykes' The Society of Captives has stood as a classic of modern penology for nearly 60 years.

What do you need to know in order to provide the best possible care for sick children of different faiths?

The Political Economy of Plea Bargaining provides the political, economic, and cultural context for understanding the evolution of plea bargaining as a juridical technology implemented to ensure the efficient administration of violations of criminal law.

Condemned to Die is a book about life under sentence of death in American prisons.

Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape curates the current state of untested sexual assault kit research and highlights emerging best practices by exploring the past, the present, and the future of our collective response to rape.

An easy to follow guide and referencer which contains all the technical information needed in sexual offences cases.

Is there an alternative way of treating sexual offenders beyond traditional psychiatry?

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This book provides an up-to-date analysis of major issues in the field of sexual abuse, both established and emerging, and asks how we can develop the most evidence-based, fit-for-purpose approach in responding to and preventing it.

Research indicates that there are psychological principles at play in the situations encountered by law enforcement personnel.

Why the Police Should be Trained by Black People aligns scholarly and community efforts to address how Black people are policed.

Forensic Interventions for Therapy and Rehabilitation: Case Studies and Analysis provides an up-to-date overview of the latest therapeutic ideas being used for forensic service users and prisoners in both custodial and community settings.

Prisons are dangerous places, and assaults, threats, theft and verbal abuse are pervasive - attributable both to the characteristics of the captive population and to an institutional sub culture which promotes violence as a means of resolving conflicts.

When a loved one with mental illness comes into contact with the law, trying to advocate for them can be an overwhelming and frustrating endeavor.

This reader presents a comprehensive review of the research on mass incarceration as it relates to causes, impact, and solutions.

This edited collection illuminates the weaknesses and strengths of crime reporting across a wide range of countries, with a focus on democratic countries in which the police bear some accountability to citizens.