Criminal or forensic psychology

Adolescence, Privacy, and the Law provides a foundation for understanding privacy rights and how they relate to adolescents.

Over the past quarter century Congress, state legislatures and the courts have radically reshaped America's laws dealing with sex offenders in an effort to reduce the prevalence of sex offenses.

Neuropsychologists are frequently asked to serve as experts for court cases where judgments must be made as to the cause of, and prognosis for, brain diseases and injuries, as well as the impact of brain dysfunction on legal competencies and responsibilities.

We all seem to think that we do the acts we do because we consciously choose to do them.

Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) continues to develop and expand as a specialization.

Society is largely blind-often willfully blind-to the ongoing violations of international human rights law when it comes to the treatment of persons with mental disabilities.

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

In three parts, this volume in the AP-LS series explores the phenomena of captivity and risk management, guided and informed by the theory, method, and policy of psychological jurisprudence.

Of all the steps in the Supreme Court's decision-making process, only one is visible to the public: the oral arguments.

This book serves as a vital resource for clinicians, therapists, and individuals aiming to integrate their psychedelic experiences through the transformative practice of Art Therapy.

Children are the most criminally victimized segment of the population, and a substantial number face multiple, serious "e;poly-victimizations"e; during a single year.

Eyewitness testimony is highly compelling in a criminal trial, and can have an indelible impact on jurors.

There is much controversy about the dangers of a free media when it comes to children and adolescents.

The Development of Persistent Criminality addresses one of the most pressing problems of modern criminology: Why do some individuals become chronic, persistent offenders?

With the media spotlight on the recent developments concerning the Supreme Court, more and more people have become increasingly interested in the highest court in the land.

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

The field of forensic psychology explores the intersection of psychology and the law.

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

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.

The first volume in the "e;What Do I Do Now?

The first volume in the "e;What Do I Do Now?

'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.