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Many hospital emergency departments are overcrowded and short-staffed, with a limited number of available hospital beds.

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.

Human emotional suffering has been studied for centuries, but the significance of psychological injuries within legal contexts has only recently been recognized.

In its roughly 25 years of existence, the trial consulting profession has grown dramatically in membership, recognition, and breadth of practice.

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

How can otherwise normal, moral persons - as citizens, voters, and jurors - participate in a process that is designed to take the life of another?

In this fascinating new book, Vincent Henry (a 21-year veteran of the NYPD who recently retired to become a university professor) explores the psychological transformations and adaptations that result from police officers' encounters with death.

Over recent decades, tremendous advances in the prevention, medical treatment, and quality of life issues in children and adolescents surviving cancer have spawned a host of research on pediatric psychosocial oncology.

This comprehensive reference by nationally recognized experts provides an interdisciplinary overview of existing knowledge about sex offenders.

Most professional forensic literature addresses the assessment of adults yet neglects the necessary differences that arise when working with minors.

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Disruptive behavior is extremely common in normal and clinical populations.

Disruptive behavior is extremely common in normal and clinical populations.

Few resources exist for those interested in developing their professional competence vis-a-vis ethics in forensic psychology, with the most recent text being published more than a decade ago.

Until now, most discussion of racial profiling has given only fleeting consideration of its causes.

In recent years there has been heightened interest in the clinical and legal management of families in which children resist contact with one parent and become aligned with the other following divorce.

The number of individuals with severe mental illness in the criminal justice system is shockingly high.

Correctional psychiatry has received increasing recognition as an area of practice with unique skills and knowledge.

A robbery victim tries to remember how the crime unfolded and who was present at the scene.

Although the jury is often referred to as one of the bulwarks of the American justice system, it regularly comes under attack.

When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be disrupted irrevocably.

When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be disrupted irrevocably.

Public behavioral health organizations serving those involved in the criminal justice system, such as problem-solving courts, correctional facilities, and parole or probation, often lack the necessary resources for long-standing effective treatment, and may struggle to keep up with research standards and retaining funding.

Public behavioral health organizations serving those involved in the criminal justice system, such as problem-solving courts, correctional facilities, and parole or probation, often lack the necessary resources for long-standing effective treatment, and may struggle to keep up with research standards and retaining funding.

Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines.

Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines.

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'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book ReviewThe grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed?

Freedom of thought is one of the great and venerable notions of Western thought, often celebrated in philosophical texts - and described as a crucial right in American, European, and International Law, and in that of other jurisdictions.

The term victim refers to a person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action.

Describes a highly effective alternative health care paradigm Two distinguished leaders in (nurse-)midwifery provide a comprehensive examination of an effective, well-known model of perinatal care associated with improved health outcomes and reduced costs.

"e;This book provides a complete look at neonatal healthcare delivery.

This latest addition to the iFast Factsi series, authored by nursing luminary Judith Herrman, is a pithy, authoritative guide to adolescent health designed specifically for nurses at all levels and other health professionals.

The only pediatric prescribing guide organized by diagnosis for ease of useThis prescribing guide, organized uniquely by diagnosis, facilitates speedy drug information retrieval for advanced health care providers in all settings involved in the primary care management of newborns through adolescents.

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This is a concise, engaging overview of forensic psychology, spanning its origins as a discipline through the many varied opportunities for employment today.

The first resource of its kind, this authoritative handbook holistically addresses the multidimensional aspects of perinatal and neonatal palliative care.

[This] is a story of love, hope, and healing.

This book offers a collection of original contributions to the literature on sexual crime, religion and spirituality.

This book combines the latest in sociology, psychology, and biology to present evidence-based research on what works in community and institutional corrections.

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 Clinician's Guide to Geriatric Forensic Evaluations provides practical guidance to clinicians performing forensic evaluations on older adults.

This book explores what victimology, as both an academic discipline and an activist movement, has achieved since its initial conception in the 1940s, from a variety of experts' perspectives.

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Clinical Interventions in Criminal Justice Settings balances theoretical frameworks and research methodology to examine the effective evidence-based practices and principles for populations within the criminal justice system.

Robert Simon's Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream: A Forensic Psychiatrist Illuminates the Darker Side of Human Behavior is that rare title that is both essential reading for the mental health professional and accessible in style and content to the fascinated lay reader.

The Routledge International Handbook of Homicide Investigation will be the first of its kind to bring together research and personal insights from detectives, practitioners, academics and experts internationally on various complexities that are involved in the investigation of homicides.

Women's Criminalisation and Offending in Australia and New Zealand offers new research and analysis of women's offending and criminalisation in Australia and New Zealand from British settlement through to the late twentieth/early twenty-first centuries.