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Cultural Competence in Forensic Mental Health: A Guide for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Attorneys
ISBN: 9780415947893 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As culturally relevant psychiatry becomes common practice, the need for competent and culturally relevant forensic psychiatry comes to the forefront. This volume, written by one expert in cultural psychiatry and another in forensic psychiatry addresses that need. By combining their expertise in these areas, they are able to develop and create a new body of knowledge and experiences addressing the issue of the cultural aspects of forensic psychiatry. Beginning with an introduction to cultural and ethnic aspects of forensic psychiatry, this volume will address basic issues of the practice, as...
As culturally relevant psychiatry becomes common practice, the need for competent and culturally relevant forensic psychiatry comes to the forefront. ...
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Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed
ISBN: 9780425212738 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed Between December 1968 and October 1969 a hooded serial killer called Zodiac terrorized San Francisco. Claiming responsibility for thirty-seven murders, he manipulated the media with warnings, dares, and bizarre cryptograms that baffled FBI code-breakers. Then as suddenly as the murders began, Zodiac disappeared into the Bay Area fog. After painstaking investigation and more than thirty years of research, Robert Graysmith finally exposes Zodiac's true identity. With overwhelming evidence he reveals the twisted private...
The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed Between December 1968 and October 1969 a hooded serial killer called Zodiac t...
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The Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions: A Handbook
ISBN: 9780470844618 / Angielski / Miękka / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume, a sequel to The Psychology of Interrogations, Confessions and Testimony which is widely acclaimed by both scientists and practitioners, brings the field completely up-to-date and focuses in particular on aspects of vulnerability, confabulation and false confessions.
The is an unrivalled integration of scientific knowledge of the psychological processes and research relating to interrogation, with the practical investigative and legal issues that bear upon obtaining, and using in court, evidence from interrogations of suspects. * Accessible style... This volume, a sequel to The Psychology of Interrogations, Confessions and Testimony which is widely acclaimed by both scientists and practitioners, b...
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Social Problem Solving and Offending: Evidence, Evaluation and Evolution
ISBN: 9780470864074 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The evidence for social problem solving deficits being relevant to the understanding and treatment of offending behaviour has been accumulating since the 1980s. Reasoning and Rehabilitation (R&R), the first structured cognitive-behavioural treatment programme used widely with prisoners, included social problem solving as a key component and is now in use worldwide. More recently, interventions that focus specifically on social problem solving have recently been developed. Arranged in three parts (evidence, evaluation and evolution and exploration), this book draws together aetiological and...
The evidence for social problem solving deficits being relevant to the understanding and treatment of offending behaviour has been accumulating since ...
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Offender Rehabilitation in Practice: Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs
ISBN: 9780471720263 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Documented evidence suggests that community safety is best achieved through policies promoting human services rather than relying totally on prisons and that promoting intervention in an individual's own environment (known as 'ecological integrity') is closely associated with effective intervention.
This is the first book to focus on the transfer of knowledge of worldwide effective offender rehabilitation programs. Prominent researchers and practitioners in the criminal justice field have contributed their extensive knowledge of what it takes to implement effective correctional... Documented evidence suggests that community safety is best achieved through policies promoting human services rather than relying totally on prisons a...
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Getting Started in Forensic Psychology Practice: How to Create a Forensic Specialty in Your Mental Health Practice
ISBN: 9780471753131 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All the tips and tools you need to start, grow, and sustain a successful forensic psychology practice
Getting Started in Forensic Psychology Practice is the first book of its kind aimed at those mental health professionals and recent graduates interested in entering the growing and lucrative field of forensic psychology. User-friendly and full of helpful tips, this handy guide provides you with tools and techniques for starting a thriving forensic psychology practice, or incorporating a forensic specialty into your current practice. This comprehensive resource... All the tips and tools you need to start, grow, and sustain a successful forensic psychology practice
Getting Started in Forensic Psychol... |
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Psychology, Law and Eyewitness Testimony
ISBN: 9780471982388 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eyewitness testimony has become one of the most researched areas within the field of applied psychology. This book deals with the psychological processes which underlie eyewitness recall and testimony, and the implications of this for expert witnesses, investigators and others in the current justice system. It describes the problems which occur in eyewitness testimony and reviews the psychological concepts and processes of perception and memory.
Eyewitness testimony has become one of the most researched areas within the field of applied psychology. This book deals with the psychological proces...
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Behaviour, Crime and Legal Processes: A Guide for Forensic Practitioners
ISBN: 9780471998693 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Areas of professional practice, such as law, psychiatry, and the behavioural and social sciences, overlap at numerous points in terms of underlying concepts and basic research. They also intersect at an everyday level in their work with individuals whose multiple problems simultaneously require attention from legal, mental health, and social services professionals. Behaviour, Crime and Legal Processes explicitly sets out to close the gaps between the professions. It addresses the questions that arise at the meeting-points and cross-roads of different backgrounds and spheres of activity,...
Areas of professional practice, such as law, psychiatry, and the behavioural and social sciences, overlap at numerous points in terms of underlying co...
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The Mentally Disordered Offender in an Era of Community Care: New Directions in Provision
ISBN: 9780521033398 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The care and management of mentally disordered offenders poses a major challenge to criminal justice agencies and psychiatric services. These patients, 'the people nobody owns', are particularly vulnerable to political and professional change and as psychiatric services become increasingly community-based, the task of meeting the needs of the offender, as well as expectations of public protection, becomes a more difficult prospect. This book brings together the papers and a summary of the discussion presented at a Cropwood Round Table conference organized by the Institute of Criminology and...
The care and management of mentally disordered offenders poses a major challenge to criminal justice agencies and psychiatric services. These patients...
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The Mentally Disordered Offender in an Era of Community Care
ISBN: 9780521403429 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The care and management of mentally disordered offenders poses a major challenge to criminal justice agencies and psychiatric services. These patients, 'the people nobody owns', are particularly vulnerable to political and professional change and as psychiatric services become increasingly community-based, the task of meeting the needs of the offender, as well as expectations of public protection, becomes a more difficult prospect. This book brings together the papers and a summary of the discussion presented at a Cropwood Round Table conference organized by the Institute of Criminology and...
The care and management of mentally disordered offenders poses a major challenge to criminal justice agencies and psychiatric services. These patients...
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The Detection of Deception in Forensic Contexts
ISBN: 9780521541572 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deception detection has traditionally been characterized by approaches which analyze different aspects of deception such as verbal content, non-verbal behavior and polygraph testing. Recent intensive research in this field has resulted in an impressive corpus of cutting-edge knowledge. The contributions of international experts in this volume provide a valuable resource for academics, students and practitioners in the legal domain.
Deception detection has traditionally been characterized by approaches which analyze different aspects of deception such as verbal content, non-verbal...
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The Detection of Deception in Forensic Contexts
ISBN: 9780521833752 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deception detection has traditionally been characterized by approaches which analyze different aspects of deception such as verbal content, non-verbal behavior and polygraph testing. Recent intensive research in this field has resulted in an impressive corpus of cutting-edge knowledge. The contributions of international experts in this volume provide a valuable resource for academics, students and practitioners in the legal domain.
Deception detection has traditionally been characterized by approaches which analyze different aspects of deception such as verbal content, non-verbal...
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Love Me to Death: A Journalist's Memoir of the Hunt for Her Friend's Killer
ISBN: 9780595357710 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Love Me To Death," Linda Wolfe weaves a chilling tale of her hunt for a serial killer wanted in the murder of several accomplished women, among them one of the author's friends. The killer was in the habit of murdering women who were not strangers, but lovers with whom he had relationships. Wolfe gets under the skin of the literal and figurative lady killer and into the lives of the interesting women who were his victims. 'Linda Wolfe has somehow put us as closely in touch with the manner and sensibility of a serial killer as we are ever likely to be." -"The New York Times" 'An intriguing...
In "Love Me To Death," Linda Wolfe weaves a chilling tale of her hunt for a serial killer wanted in the murder of several accomplished women, among th...
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Conducting Scientifically Crafted Child Custody Evaluations
ISBN: 9780761911012 / Angielski / Miękka / 397 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author Jonathan W. Gould compiles the literature on child custody evaluation into a coherent, logically integrated format that can be applied directly to practice. This empirically based book represents state-of-the-art forensic techniques in the rapidly changing field of child custody evaluation. The author questions whether this minority comprises a unique population that requires separate, uniquely developed intervention protocols.
Author Jonathan W. Gould compiles the literature on child custody evaluation into a coherent, logically integrated format that can be applied directly...
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Evaluating Sex Offenders: A Manual for Civil Commitments and Beyond
ISBN: 9780761921134 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A professional volume to help practitioners, clinicians, counsellors, and parole officers, assess risk and evaluate offenders who have been convicted of a sex crime. This is the most comprehensive volume available on every aspect of assessing risk. It compares all current risk assessment techniques of sex offenders in terms of ease of use, reliability, and predictive power. It is a complete guide to assessing sex offenders for likelihood of re-offense, and provides a wealth of information on other aspects of the assessment process, including information gathering, interviewing offenders, and...
A professional volume to help practitioners, clinicians, counsellors, and parole officers, assess risk and evaluate offenders who have been convicted ...
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Evaluating Sex Offenders: A Manual for Civil Commitments and Beyond
ISBN: 9780761921141 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. a Evaluating Sex Offenders is the first and only how to book describing the complete sex offender civil commitment evaluation. Aimed at helping practitioners, clinicians, counselors, and parole officers assess risk and evaluate offenders who have been convicted of a sex crime, the text offers readers a step-by-step description of what examiners need to know, including information gathering, interviewing offenders, and writing reports. Chapter topics include: defining risk; data gathering; diagnostic issues; recidivism base rates; risk factor lists; actuarial scales; instrumentation... a Evaluating Sex Offenders is the first and only how to book describing the complete sex offender civil commitment evaluation. Aimed at helping p... |
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Occupational Therapy in Forensic Psychiatry: Role Development and Schizophrenia
ISBN: 9780789021243 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learn Role Development techniques to provide more effective therapy to schizophrenic clients
Occupational Therapy in Forensic Psychiatry: Role Development and Schizophrenia presents a set of guidelines for clinical practice in Role Development. Role Development is a treatment intervention designed to assist individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia in developing social roles, task skills, and interpersonal skills. The book provides concrete, practical suggestions for using Role Develpoment with clients. These guidelines are thoroughly described as are methods for implementing... Learn Role Development techniques to provide more effective therapy to schizophrenic clients
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A Handbook for Psychological Fitness-For-Duty Evaluations in Law Enforcement
ISBN: 9780789023971 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While some books about police psychology contain a chapter on the fitness-for-duty question, this is the first comprehensive publication focused exclusively on psychological fitness-for-duty evaluations (FFDEs) for law enforcement personnel. This handbook is ideal for professionals and for coursework designed to prepare individuals for careers as police or municipal officials, psychologists, students, behavioral science specialists, human rights advocates, and attorneys. A helpful glossary makes the book even more useful for students and those who do not have extensive academic or formal... While some books about police psychology contain a chapter on the fitness-for-duty question, this is the first comprehensive publication focused ex... |
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Forensic Applications of the Mmpi-2
ISBN: 9780803970137 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Research and practice on a widely used psychological test in forensic psychology - the MMPI-2 - are examined and integrated in this volume. Chapters discuss the psychological and legal bases of forensic psychological assessment in general, and the use of the MMPI-2 in particular, in a variety of specific forensic applications involving criminal and civil proceedings.
Research and practice on a widely used psychological test in forensic psychology - the MMPI-2 - are examined and integrated in this volume. Chapters d...
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Law and Psychology
ISBN: 9780814750643 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes will provide a vital new resource for both research and teaching. Each volume is edited by leading international authorities who explain the significance and context of articles in an informative and complete introduction. This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readil... |
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