Criminal or forensic psychology

The Psychology of Arson is the first book in its field to focus specifically on contemporary topics relevant to practitioners and professionals working with adolescent and adult deliberate firesetters.

No-Body Homicides: The Evolution of Investigation and Prosecution examines how police and prosecutors have become more successful in obtaining convictions for homicide when the remains of the victim are unavailable as evidence.

In recent years, western societies have experienced a fundamental transformation in the way crime is understood and dealt with.

The professional practice of counseling and mental health can often be complex and litigious.

Rural Victims of Crime offers a pioneering sustained assessment of 'the rural victim'.

This book provides an accessible introduction to the increasingly popular subject of criminal psychology.

This is a major new collection of essays on literary and cultural representations of migration and terrorism, the cultural impact of 9/11, and the subsequent 'war on terror'.

Praise for previous editions of Juvenile Sexual Offending A stimulating presentation of clinical thinking that demonstrates why the authors are leaders in the juvenile sex offending field.

First published in 1976, Psychopath is a study of Patrick Mackay who, in 1974 - with a string of muggings and killings behind him - was on trial for murder and was imprisoned in November 1975.

In The Handbook of Forensic Rorschach Assessment, editors Carl B.

Despite a shared focus on crime and its 'extended family', forensic scientists and criminologists tend to work in isolation rather than sharing the data, methods and knowledge that will broaden the understanding of the criminal phenomenon and its related subjects.

INVESTIGATING TERRORISM How can we be more effective in bringing terrorists to justice in ways that uphold our legal traditions?

High levels of remand or pre-trial detention (PTD) is a matter of growing concern in many countries, and at a European level.

First published in 1978, Crime and Penal Policy is primarily addressed to non-professional people interested in criminal law and the penal system, such as magistrates, prison visitors, and anyone accused or convicted of criminal offences.

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.

This handbook covers major crime categories, theories, assessment methods, and interventions used in forensic psychology.

This book queries the concept of rehabilitation to determine how, on a legislative and policy level, the term is defined as a goal of correctional systems.

Transitional Justice in Rwanda: Accountability for Atrocity comprehensively analyzes the full range of the transitional justice processes undertaken for the Rwandan genocide.

The Routledge Handbook on Global Community Corrections assesses and analyzes the status of community corrections systems around the world, highlighting inter-regional and intra-regional variations in their design, implementation, and impact on policy and practice.

This book is an introduction to the uncertainties and incongruities about madness.

A riveting scientific account of why and how female serial killers commit murder—and often get away with it.

It has long been argued that families play a crucial role in helping support prisoners during and beyond their time in prison.

This book provides a comprehensive dissemination of theoretically grounded and empirically sound research on sex offenders and sex offending.

Why do some modern societies punish their offenders differently to others?

Our memories shape how we think about the past, how we plan for the future, and how we think about ourselves.

This book brings together an international group of experts to present cutting-edge psychological research on crime, policing and courts.

The Journey from Prison to Community: Developing Identity, Meaning and Belonging with Men in the UK provides a practical guide for practitioners working with men to successfully make the transition between prison and the community.

The problem of prostitution, sex work or sex for sale can often be misunderstood, if we do not take into consideration its spatial, temporal and political context.

This book provides the first consideration of quantum principles in legal decision making.

Transitions to Better Lives aims to describe, collate, and summarize a body of recent research - both theoretical and empirical - that explores the issue of treatment readiness in offender programming.

Parenting Coordination is a child-centered process for conflicted divorced and divorcing parents.

Forensic psychiatry is the discipline which distinguishes the 'mad' from the 'bad', but are its values inherently racist?

This book arises from a research project funded in Australia by the Criminology Research Council.

This book demonstrates the unique contribution police ethnographies make to our understanding of policing cultures and practices in a variety of international settings.

Interviewing of Suspects with Mental Health Conditions and Disorders in England and Wales explores cutting-edge research that focuses specifically on these adults (including their cognitive needs and psychological vulnerabilities), the impact on the investigative interview, and existing legislation, guidance and practice.

Disruptive behavior is extremely common in normal and clinical populations.

Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality.

Techniques in the investigative interviewing and interrogation of victims, witnesses and suspects of crime vary around the world, according to a country's individual legal system, religion and culture.

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

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

Disordered Personalities and Crime seeks to better understand how we respond to those individuals who have been labelled at various points in time as 'morally insane', 'psychopathic' or 'personality disordered'.

This book describes the complex process of desistance from sexual crime as told by 74 men incarcerated for sexual offenses and released back into the community.

The Routledge Handbook on Victims' Issues in Criminal Justice is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook on current issues, with a distinctive emphasis on the delivery of suitable and effective services.

Dying on the Job is the first book on workplace violence to focus exclusively on workplace murder.

First published in 1965, the original blurb reads: "e;At the present time more and more public interest centres on crime, prison and prisoners, and the prison population in this country now exceeds 24, 000.

This book examines the multifaceted nature of gender-based violence (GBV) and the many forms it can take.

This book examines the representation and misrepresentation of queer people in true crime, addressing their status as both victims and perpetrators in actual crime, as well as how the media portrays them.

Multicultural Child Maltreatment Risk Assessment provides detailed descriptions of child maltreatment assessment and key strategies for culturally informed risk assessment in families.

In recent decades there has been a vast increase in the use of imprisonment and penal supervision, and to many this development appears to be qualitatively as well as quantitatively different.