Criminal or forensic psychology

Incarcerating Motherhood explores how initial short period in prisons can negatively impact mothers and their children.

Doping has become one of the most important and high-profile issues in contemporary sport.

This structured yet flexible manual presents an innovative group treatment approach that targets deficits in self-regulationa central problem for sex offenders.

This book aims to increase understanding of alibis and corroborators, examining the role alibis play - or fail to play - in innocence cases.

The Routledge International Handbook on Fear of Crime brings together original and international state of the art contributions of theoretical, empirical, policy-related scholarship on the intersection of perceptions of crime, victimisation, vulnerability and risk.

In America, 2.

Maximize your effectiveness with troubled kids!

Attempts to describe and understand the criminality of the mentally disordered.

Following the rise of the zemiological movement, the concept of social harm has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention.

This volume explores an important, yet under-researched, area of sentencing law and practice: the use of mitigating and aggravating factors.

First published in 1980, Mugging as a Social Problem sets out to remedy the deficiency of serious research on mugging.

The Routledge Handbook of Attachment: Implications and Interventions offers an introduction to therapies produced as a result of the popularity of attachment studies.

High risk offenders can have a disproportionate impact on their communities because, despite all manner of sentencing options, they continue to commit a wide range of crimes, both minor and serious.

Offering insights based on years of original research, Redefining Murder, Transforming Emotion: An Exploration of Forgiveness after Loss Due to Homicide investigates the ideas and experiences of individuals who have lost loved ones to homicide (co-victims) in order to advance our understanding of the emotional transformation of forgiveness.

Exner's Comprehensive System has attracted so much attention in recent years that many clinicians and personality researchers are unaware that alternative Rorschach scoring systems exist.

Bringing together a collection of essays by writers with diverse knowledge of the US criminal justice system, from those with personal experience in prison and on patrol to scholarly researchers, What Is a Criminal?

Solution focused approaches offer proven ways of helping children overcome a whole range of difficulties, from academic problems to mental health issues, by helping them to identify their strengths and achievements.

This book examines what it means to be a family within the restrictive, disruptive, and often distressing context of imprisonment.

Sex offending, and in particular child sex offending, is a complex area for policy makers, theorists and practitioners.

This book is an empirically grounded, critical engagement with the politics of immigration detention and deportation.

In 2007, the Corston Report recommended a far-reaching, radical, 'women-centred' approach to women's imprisonment in England and Wales.

Discussing social media-related scholarship found in criminology, legal studies, policing, courts, corrections, victimization, and crime prevention, this book presents the current state of our knowledge on the impact of social media and the major sociological frameworks employed to study the U.

Women, Crime and Justice in Context presents contemporary feminist approaches to key issues in criminal justice.

Time is an abducted child's worst enemy.

Bringing together cutting-edge theory and research that bridges academic disciplines from criminology and criminal justice, to developmental psychology, sociology, and political science, Thinking About Victimization offers an authoritative and refreshingly accessible overview of scholarship on the nature, sources, and consequences of victimization.

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.

Technological linkages between justice and law enforcement agencies are radically altering criminal process and access to justice for prisoners.

This book taps neuroscience and neuropsychology to provide hard facts about brain conditions and the behavior that emerges from powerful brain chemistry-a fascinating read for adolescents, parents, and teachers alike.

This book examines the role of deceptive tactics in the criminal victimization process, showing how various forms of manipulative aggression can help disguise dangerous advances.

Mental health laws exist in many countries to regulate the involuntary detention and treatment of individuals with serious mental illnesses.

To ensure a fair criminal trial, effective sentencing advocacy is needed in every stage of prosecution, from investigation through plea, trial and sentencing hearings.

In some criminal cases, it is a difficult challenge to find out what happened.

Psychopathy and Law: A Practitioner's Guide provides those working in the fields of law, the military, social and health services, politics, and business with a comprehensive introduction to psychopathy and the ways of thinking that guide the psychopathic mind.

Female Crime, first published in 1987, surveys the major schools of criminology in order to explore the images of the female offender which underpin many contemporary crime theories.

This Element offers a critical review of forensic linguistic studies in the Philippines.

The go-to resource for clinical and forensic practice has now been significantly revised with 85% new material, reflecting the tremendous growth of the field.

Criminological research has largely neglected the possibility that positive peer influence is a potentially powerful source of social control.

Today's increasingly sophisticated psychological and neuropsychological assessments allow for a greater understanding, and improved evaluations, in forensic psychology.

After heart disease and cancer, the third leading cause of death in the United States is iatrogenic injury (avoidable injury or infection caused by a healer).

This book provides a normative analysis of the justifications and limits of asset confiscation as a crime control measure in a comparative perspective.

The Death Penalty, Third Edition, brings together all the legal issues related to the death penalty and provides case briefs for the most important United States Supreme Court death penalty cases.

Victimology, Tenth Edition, covers the scope of crime victims' suffering in the US, offering a history of victims and the measurement of victimization, an explanation of the victim's role in the criminal justice process, and a recounting of the issues crime victims face as a result of crime and involvement in the criminal justice process.

This is a provocative collection exploring the different types of violence and how they relate to one another, examined through the integration of several disciplines, including forensic psychotherapy, psychiatry, sociology, psychosocial studies and political science.

The law relating to fitness to plead is an increasingly important area of the criminal law.

This important book provides a much-needed exploration and examination of "e;honor"e; abuse, violence, and killings from a psychological perspective.

This textbook serves as a guide to design and evaluate evidence-based programs intended to prevent or counter violent extremism (P/CVE).

This book summarizes and synthesizes a vast body of research on the effects of legal punishment and criminal behavior.

This volume takes stock of contemporary perspectives on gender and crime.