Forensic Science category: 441 books
Dangerous Instincts
Use an FBI Profiler's Tactics to Avoid Unsafe Situations
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Fear can't help you in a dangerous situation. A former FBI profiler shows you what can.
As one of the world's top experts on psychopathy and criminal behavior, Mary Ellen O'Toole has seen repeatedly how relying on the sense of fear alone often fails to protect us from danger. Whether you are...
by Jeremy F. Mills, PhD, CPsych
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Presenting a comprehensive framework for conducting a scientifically grounded violence risk assessment, this book is authoritative, current, and practical. The essentials of doing this type of evaluation are reviewed, and available risk appraisal instruments are described for general violence, sexual...
Serial Homicide
Profiling of Victims and Offenders for Policing
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This Brief provides an overview and history of the definition of serial homicide, from the perspectives of psychology, medicine, criminology and forensics. It reviews research to provide a standard definition of serial homicide (as opposed to multiple or mass homicide), and provide insights on profiles...
The Criminal Act
The Role and Influence of Routine Activity Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
This volume provides a unique collection of essays in honour of the work of Marcus Felson and his notable contribution to routine activity theory, environmental criminology and the discipline more broadly.
Chapter 5 of this book is open access under a CC BY license.
The Allure of Premeditated Murder
Why Some People Plan to Kill
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Any murder causes pain and suffering that ripple through families and communities—of both the victims and the perpetrators—but premeditated murders cause the worst kind of damage. The Allure of Premeditated Murder is about the worst kinds of premeditated homicide in which the perpetrator plans...
by John E. B. Myers, JD
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
From a leading expert on interpersonal violence, this book explains what mental health clinicians need to know about the legal system and their role in it, particularly when working with victims of child abuse, neglect, or domestic violence. John E. B. Myers provides an accessible overview of the...
by Lawrence S. Wrightsman
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2006
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. Who are the justices that run it and how do they make their decisions? The Psychology of the Supreme Court by Lawrence S. Wrightsman...
Romantic Terrorism
An Auto-Ethnography of Domestic Violence, Victimization and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Romantic Terrorism offers an innovative methodology in exploring the ways in which domestic violence offenders terrorise their victims. Its focus on the insidious use of tactics of coercive control by abusers opens up much-needed discussion on the damage caused to victims by emotional and psychological abuse.
Respect, Defense, and Self-Identity
Profiling Parricide in Nineteenth-Century America, 1852-1899
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Ever since Oedipus unwittingly killed his father and married his mother in Sophocles’ play, parricide – the killing of a parent or another close relative – has been a dominant motif in works of literature, film, psychoanalytic theory, and criminology. Yet, parricide, for much of the twentieth...
by Stuart Lair Houser
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
After 17 years of private practice as a cardiovascular surgeon, my partners qu- tionedtherationalityofmydecisiontoleavetheclinicalpracticebehindandbecome acardiovascular pathologist. Infact,theirdisbeliefofmyintentiontomakethe“leap of faith” was understandable. For a surgeon, the operating room...
Interface
A Guide for Professionals Supporting the Criminal Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
A wide variety of professionals find themselves intimately involved in the criminal justice system; firefighters, emergency medical providers, nurses, physicians, public health personnel, environmental professionals, public works personnel, and many others. No previous work has attempted to address...
White-Collar Crime
Accounts of Offending Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
This book explores the accounts given by white-collar crime offenders to defend their criminal behaviour in order to preserve their characters and social standing. It is based on in-depth interviews with 41 male and female convicted white-collar offenders, who were still serving their sentences in...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This book provides the first systematic overview of the theoretical, empirical, clinical, and police issues related to sexual murderers and murder. Bringing together leading researchers, theoreticians, and practitioners from across eight different countries, this is a truly international collaboration...
Understanding Sexual Homicide Offenders
An Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
This book offers a comprehensive understanding of sexual homicide. It includes a thorough survey of offender classifications, and analyses current theoretical explanations and understandings of sexual homicide from a criminological perspective. It proposes an important new integrated theoretical understanding of sexual homicide offenders.