Criminal or forensic psychology

Imprisonment has become big business in the United States.

The Implicit Relation of Psychology and Law brings an innovative, feminist analysis to these affiliated fields.

Violence in the home, particularly assault by a man on his wife or girlfriend, is an everyday phenomenon.

Although there is a strong and growing literature in the two areas of desistance and addiction recovery, they have developed along parallel pathways with little systematic assessment of the empirical evidence about the co-occurrence of the relationship or how one area can learn from the other.

This book examines the role of Chief Executives in white collar crime from a convenience theory perspective.

Exploring the application, theory, implications, and socio-legal underpinnings of human rights in probation and associated offender management, this book examines the key imperatives and practices of the Probation Service in England and Wales in relation to the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA).

This book brings together a thought-provoking collection of original contributions to the study of sexual crime prevention.

It is generally assumed that we are justified in punishing criminals because they have committed a morally wrongful act.

Stopping Gender-based Violence in Higher Education provides a unique insight into how gender-based violence at universities is impacting students and staff and outlines the path toward tangible changes that can prevent it.

This book engages with a controversial issue, namely the establishment of penal colonies and concentration camps in imperial spaces, which have informed ongoing debates on the repressive practices of colonial rule and popular resistance against it.

This book is a critical summary and exegesis of the work of Nicole Rafter, who was a leading scholar of the history of biological theories of crime causation as well as a profound theorist of the role of history within criminology.

Parricide and Violence Against Parents takes a historical and criminological approach to the research on parricide and violence against parents, placing the research in the context of social development from the 1500s to contemporary society, and giving a global overview and comparison.

This book is the first to examine trauma-informed criminal justice responses to the commission of crime and its impact through empathy and humanity.

Offender-focused prosecution concentrates attention to the actions, decisions, choices, and motivations of the offender.

Drawing on extensive research from Australia, this book examines the experiences of sexual offence victims who submit a victim impact statement.

Offering carefully curated articles from the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL), this book features chapters from a truly international group of scholars.

The insanity defense is one of the oldest fixtures of the Anglo-American legal tradition.

The Handbook on Pretrial Justice covers the front end of the criminal legal system from pretrial diversion to pretrial detention or release.

This book contributes to our knowledge of desistance in a developing country.

Building on the success of the first edition and the growth of research in the field over the past decade, this book offers an authoritative overview of the assessment, treatment, and management of violent and sexual offenders.

Genocide and Victimology examines genocide in its diverse features, from different yet connected perspectives, to offer an interdisciplinary, victimological imagination of genocide.

Written specifically for the clinical neuropsychologist who does forensic consultations, the book is a comprehensive review by experts of the procedures available to evaluate malingered neuropsychological deficits.

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

This latest volume in the Penal Theory and Penal Ethics series addresses one of the oldest and most contested questions in the field of criminal sentencing: should an offender's previous convictions affect the sentence?

This book examines the relationship between international human rights discourse and the justifi cations for criminal punishment.

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

This collection presents a unique and diverse range of contributions on challenges faced by criminal justice in England and Wales in the wake of the Covid-19 global pandemic.

Research Methods for Forensic Psychologists is an accessible and comprehensive textbook that introduces students to the research process in forensic psychology.

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

This book presents a timely analysis of the psychological influences, underpinnings, and predictors of non-consensual image-based sexual offending (NCIBSO), such as revenge pornography, cyber-flashing, deepfake media production and upskirting.

The social processes which underpin and shape our lives have the power to significantly transform the trajectories of people experiencing recovery from addiction and desistance from crime.

A psychiatric assessment is a structured clinical conversation, complemented by observation and mental state examination, and supplemented by a physical examination and the interview of family members when appropriate.

Wheatley's Road Traffic Law in Scotland is a highly regarded source of reference for all those involved in the detection and prosecution of road traffic offences, with all the relevant law and authority presented in a clear and accessible style.

The Handbook of Violence Risk Assessment, Second Edition, builds on the first edition's comprehensive discussion of violence risk assessment instruments with an update of research on established tools and the addition of new chapters devoted to recently developed risk assessment tools.

'Now there is a clarity.

Applied Psychology for Foundation Year: Key Ideas for Foundation Courses introduces students to topical issues and controversies within specific areas of applied psychology, bringing together current theories and studies from a number of areas within applied psychology through a series of interesting and current debates and controversies.

Examining the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice from the end of World War II to today.

The recent mass shooting of 22 innocent people in El Paso by a lone White gunman looking to "e;Kill Mexicans"e; is not new.

Although restorative justice is probably one of the most talked about topics in contemporary criminology, little has been written about how community involvement in restorative justice translates into practice.

There have been numerous books published that have dealt with psychological assessment.

This book explores the experience of immigration enforcement for women who have been detained in immigration detention in the UK.

Led by Professor David Ormerod and David Perry QC, our team of authors has been hand-picked to ensure that you can trust our unique combination of authority and practicality.

In the nearly four decades since the First International Symposium on Victimology convened in Jerusalem in 1973, some concepts and themes have continued to hold a prominent place in the literature, while new ones have also emerged.

This volume consists of up-to-date review articles on topics relevant to psychology and law, and will be of current interest to the field.

Drawing on qualitative research conducted with young people in New York, this volume highlights the unique experiences of children of incarcerated parents (COIP) and counters deficit-based narratives to consider how young people's voices can inform and improve educational support services.

Handbook of Forensic Mental Health Services focuses on assessment, treatment, and policy issues regarding juveniles and adults in the criminal and civil systems.

Increasingly, counselors are practicing spiritual or complementary interventions.

When an individual is accused of a crime he is provided, at least in theory, with numerous constitutional rights throughout the legal process.

This book focuses on applied behavior analysis (ABA) treatment of violence and aggression in persons with neurodevelopmental disabilities.