Criminal or forensic psychology

Forensic Music Therapy demonstrates diverse and innovative approaches, which include live, improvised and pre-composed music, from music therapy teams working in secure treatment settings.

Few crimes generate greater public reaction than those where a mother murders her child.

Forensic work occurs across the criminal justice sector and the legal and health professions and intersects with work in a range of areas, such as child protection, family welfare, mental health, offending, disability and addictions, family violence programmes, juvenile justice and sexual assault centres.

This book aims to serve as a comprehensive resource for a myriad of crime and mental health topics and issues in the African criminal justice system from a psycho-criminological perspective.

The Social Exclusion of Incarcerated Women with Cognitive Disabilities explores the lived experience of cognitively disabled women incarcerated in Australia.

For fans of Mindhunter, Criminal Minds, and My Favorite Murder, a riveting memoir of a trailblazing woman's life hunting down serial killers as one of the first female profilers of the FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit and the real-life model for Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.

This book discusses the under-researched relationship between sentencing and the legitimacy of punishment.

'A hugely impressive achievement.

Social workers have their hands in a lot of big sociopolitical issues.

Women, Reentry and Employment: Criminalized and Employable?

This book provides in-depth coverage of guns, gun violence and gun homicides from a variety of perspectives, including, but not limited to, gender, suicide, peaceology and police (in)action.

This book explores the profound impact of peer support within the bleak landscape of incarceration.

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.

Das Therapieprogramm für angemessenes Sexualverhalten (ThePaS) richtet sich an Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene, die grenzverletzendes Sexualverhalten gezeigt haben.

Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice explores the intersections of the carceral in projects of oppression, while at the same time providing intellectual, pragmatic, and undetermined paths toward abolition.

Even for violent crime, justice should mean more than punishment.

Esta compilación de nueve capítulos de investigación sobre los espacios de encierro, detención, castigo y trabajo penado en la historia de Colombia ofrece una mirada de larguísima duración en nuestro territorio, desde las primeras fundaciones de Tierra Firme, pasando por el Virreinato del Nuevo Reino de Granada, hasta la República de Colombia en el siglo XX.

Although there has been an increase in research on terrorism across the social and behavioural sciences in the past few decades, until recently most of this work has originated from political science, psychology or economics.

This volume explores ethical aspects relating to claims for mitigation arising from culpable state action (or inaction).

The Handbook of Forensic Psychopathology and Treatment explores the relationship between psychopathology and criminal behaviour in juveniles and adults.

This book examines the phenomenon of Community Justice Centres and their potential to transform the justice landscape by tackling the underlying causes of crime.

Crime and punishment are social and cultural manifestations; they are closely bound up with people's perceptions of morality, norms and values.

To what extent is restorative justice able to 'restore' the harm suffered by victims of crimes of interpersonal violence?

This book argues for a mixed theory of legal punishment that treats both crime reduction and retribution as important aims of the state.

The question of 'what works' in offender treatment has dominated the field of prisoner re-entry and recidivism research for the last thirty years.

The women's movement and increasing social consciousness regarding gender disparity and discrimination has helped to make gains over the past several decades to reduce gender disparity for women in the workplace.

Managing the Mentally Disordered Offender presses the case for better health care of mentally disturbed law breakers, and the need to divert them from unnecessary imprisonment.

Resozialisierung hat im Justizvollzug eine bereits im Strafvollzugsgesetz verankerte zentrale Bedeutung.

Honor related violence is generally associated with crimes committed by people from the Middle East and adjacent areas.

Diese Studie untersucht die dynamische Beziehung zwischen Wissenschaft, Zahlen und Politik.

Sex offenders remain the most hated group of offenders, subject to a myriad of regulations and punishments beyond imprisonment, including sex offender registries, chemical and surgical castration, and global positioning electronic monitoring systems.

This book is intended for medical and mental health clinicians faced with the challenge of evaluating adolescents and adults in the legal context who may have a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).

The leading textbook on sentencing, and the only one to integrate theory and empirical research with legislation, guidelines and case law.

The jury is often hailed as one of the most important symbols of American democracy.

John Woods presents a theoretical approach and practical suggestions for mental health practitioners working therapeutically with young people who have abused.

This book presents results from a BAU study including 259 active, animal cruelty cases.

The first volume of the Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World series introduced readers to the great diversity that exists cross-culturally in the political, social, and economic context of the correctional system.

From experts on working with court-mandated populations, this book shows how motivational interviewing (MI) can help offenders move beyond resistance or superficial compliance and achieve meaningful behavior change.

Applied psychology has become increasingly important in the work of policing, police training and the academic study of policing.

In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, Western societies entered a climate of austerity which has limited the penal expansion experienced in the US, UK and elsewhere over recent decades.

Land of White Gloves?

Exploring High-risk Offender Treatment and the Role of Music Therapy explores the treatment delivered to high-risk offenders with complex needs, focusing on sex and violent offenders.

This edited volume presents nine new state-of-the-science chapters covering topics relevant to psychology and law, from established and emerging researchers in the field.

Siguiendo la colección práctico-criminológica de Psicometría Forense iniciada con sus predecesoras (Vol I: Asesinatos y Vol.

This book presents a feminist historical materialist analysis of the ways in which the law, policing and penal regimes have overlapped with social policies to coercively discipline the poor and marginalized sectors of the population throughout the history of capitalism.