Forensic Psychology: Concepts, Debates and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781843924142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 608 str.

Joanna R Adler

Opis

Demonstrates the scope of forensic psychology and the techniques employed in key areas of research, policy and practice. This book addresses: investigation and prosecution, testimony and evidence, serious and persistent offending, treatment as intervention, intervention and prevention and punishment and corrections.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction 1. Forensic Psychology: Some Concepts and Debates about Practice  1. Investigation and Prosecution  2 Miscarriages of Justice: What can we Learn?  3. The Interpretation and Utilisation of Offender Profiles: A Critical Review of 'Traditional' Approaches to Profiling  4. UK Police Interviews with Suspects: A Short Modern History  5. The Investigation and Prosecution of Rape  Part 2: Testimony and Evidence  6. The Effect of Gender in the Courtroom 7. 'Without fear of favour, prejudice or ill will': Magistrates' Sentencing Decisions  8. Eliciting Evidence from Eyewitnesses for Court Proceedings  9. The Aging Eyewitness  10. Safeguarding Vulnerable and Intimidated Witnesses at Court: Are the 'Special Measures' Working?  Part 3: Serious and Persistent Offending  11. Life-Course Persistent Offending  12. Stalking  13. Forensic Psychology and Terrorism  14. Aetiology of Genocide Part 4: Treatment as Intervention  15. Treatment of Offenders Classified as Having Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder  16. Anger Control Groupwork with Forensic Psychiatric Inpatients: Theories and Practical Applications  17. Developments in Treatment for Drug Misuse Offenders  Part 5: Intervention and Prevention  18. Intimate Partner Violence: Current Issues in Definition and Interventions with Perpetrators in the UK  19. Effective Programmes to Prevent Delinquency  20. Parenting Projects, Justice and Welfare  21. The Challenge of Managing Prejudice and Hate in Offending Behaviours  Part 6: Punishment and Corrections  22. What Role does Punishment Play in Deterring Crime? Practical, Theoretical and Ethical Perspectives  23. Women in Prison  24. Self-Harm in Prisons: Dominant Models and (Mis)understandings  25 Post-Corrections Reintegration: Prisoner Resettlement and Desistance from Crime  26. Psychology in the UK National Offender Management Service: Prisons and Probation  Concluding Remarks

O autorze

Joanna R Adler is Principal Lecturer in Forensic Psychology and Director of Forensic Psychological Services at Middlesex University. Jacqueline M. Gray is Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University.