Forensic Psychology category: 378 books
American Legal Injustice
Behind the Scenes with an Expert Witness
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Forensic psychiatrist Emanuel Tanay has testified in thousands of court cases as an expert witness, including such notorious cases as those of Jack Ruby, Sam Sheppard, and Theodore 'Ted' Bundy. Tanay walks the reader through his experiences in the courtroom, explaining the role of the forensic psychiatrist...
Minds on Trial
Great Cases in Law and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2006
In recent years, the public has become increasingly fascinated with the criminal mind. Television series centered on courtroom trials, criminal investigations, and forensic psychology are more popular than ever. More and more people are interested in the American system of justice and the individuals...
Children's Testimony
A Handbook of Psychological Research and Forensic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The second edition of Children’s Testimony is a fully up-to-date resource for practitioners and researchers working in forensic contexts and concerned with children's ability to provide reliable testimony about abuse.
Written for both practitioners and researchers working in forensic contexts,...
by Patricia Zapf, Ronald Roesch
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines. This series presents up-to-date information on the most important and frequently conducted forms of FMHA. The 19 topical volumes address best approaches to practice for particular...
Shrunk
Crime and Disorders of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
SHRUNK: Crime and Disorders of the Mind is a collection of powerful stories by Canadian and international forensic psychologists and psychiatrists who write about the many complex mental health issues they face and the care involved in dealing with them.
Unlike any other book within the genre...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This book brings together an international group of experts to present cutting-edge psychological research on crime, policing and courts. With contributors from the UK, Germany, Italy, Norway, Cyprus, Israel, Canada and the USA, this volume explores some of the most interesting and contemporary areas...
Assessments in Forensic Practice
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Assessments in Forensic Practice: A Handbook provides practical guidance in the assessment of the most frequently encountered offender subgroups found within the criminal justice system. Topics include:
criminal justice assessments
offenders with mental disorders
family violence
policy and practice
Finding the Truth in the Courtroom
Dealing with Deception, Lies, and Memories
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
In many criminal trials, forensic technical evidence is lacking and triers of fact must rely on the reliability of eyewitness statements, identifications, and testimony; however, such reports can be riddled with deceptive statements or erroneous recollections. Based on such considerations, the question...
The Psychology of Criminal Investigation
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
The contribution of psychological research to the prevention of miscarriages of justice and the development of effective investigative techniques is now established to a point where law enforcement agencies in numerous countries either employ psychologists as part of their staff, or work in cooperation...
The Psychology of Arson
A Practical Guide to Understanding and Managing Deliberate Firesetters
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
The Psychology of Arson is the first book in its field to focus specifically on contemporary topics relevant to practitioners and professionals working with adolescent and adult deliberate firesetters. Rebekah Doley, Geoffrey Dickens and Theresa Gannon have integrated the very latest information regarding...
Cop Doc
The Police Psychologist's Casebook--Narratives From Police Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Cop Doc delivers a unique map of police psychology. Retired NYPD sergeant Daniel Rudofossi delivers compelling inside scoops: the first-grade detective who nailed the Times Square bomber, intelligence enigmas unraveled by the DEA intelligence chief, wisdom culled from a best-selling novelist, a NYPD...
Prologue to Violence
Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Despite mounting references to the "transgenerational transmission of violence," we still lack a compelling understanding of the linkage between the interpersonal violence of early life and the criminal violence of adulthood. In Prologue to Violence, Abby Stein draws on the gripping narratives...
by Andrew Farah
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Hemingway’s Brain is an innovative biography and the first forensic psychiatric examination of Nobel Prize–winning author Ernest Hemingway. After committing seventeen years to researching Hemingway’s life and medical history, Andrew Farah, a forensic psychiatrist, has concluded that the writer’s...
Forensics
What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Bestselling author of Broken Ground “offers fascinating glimpses” into the real world of criminal forensics from its beginnings to the modern day (The Boston Globe).
The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them....