Forensic Psychology category: 378 books
True Witness
Cops, Courts, Science, and the Battle against Misidentification
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Honest but mistaken eyewitnesses are the leading cause of wrongful convictions in the United States. As the innocent go to prison their lives are shattered; as the criminal goes free, the public remains vulnerable. With a vivid cast of brilliant scientists, street-wise cops, and former prosecutors--all...
Dying on the Job
Murder and Mayhem in the American Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Dying on the Job is the first book on workplace violence to focus exclusively on workplace murder. While some perpetrators are certainly mentally impaired, many workplace murders are committed by people considered to be “normal.” Brown explores the various motives and drives that spark workplace...
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 Debra H. Benveniste
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This book approaches the treatment process from a new and yet old perspective. Eleven men who successfully desisted from substance abuse and offending were interviewed to determine how their significant therapeutic relationships facilitated this life change. Data is integrated with a new psychodynamic...
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.
Politics, Pedagogy and Power
Bullying in Faculties of Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Politics, Pedagogy and Power: Bullying in Faculties of Education is the result of research seeking to find explanations for bullying between faculty members in faculties of education around the world. The frank and devastating revelations of professors are shocking and painful, screaming for interrogation....
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...
Psychiatry in Prisons
A Comprehensive Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Psychiatry in Prisons provides a comprehensive overview of the history, problems and development of psychiatric health care in prisons, focusing particularly on the UK. The contributors tackle a broad range of issues, from familiar mental health issues such as substance misuse, self-injury and health...
Creating Safer Organisations
Practical Steps to Prevent the Abuse of Children by Those Working With Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
An accessible resource to help those in organisational settings ensure that they have taken all possible steps to safeguard the children and young people they are responsible for.
Draws on up to date research with people who have committed sexual offences against children in organisational settings,...
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Symptom Validity Assessment and Malingering
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
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This authoritative volume is the first book specifically devoted to symptom validity assessment with individuals having a known or suspected history of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI). It brings together leading experts in MTBI, symptom validity assessment, and malingering to provide...
by James Randall Noblitt Ph.D., Pamela Perskin Noblitt
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This personal yet scholarly journey into the confusing and clandestine world of ritual abuse survivors sheds light on their catastrophic experiences and their efforts to heal afterward.
• Features recalled histories of ritual abuse and vignettes of patients who have experienced dissociative...
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...
The Wiley Handbook of What Works in Child Maltreatment
An Evidence-Based Approach to Assessment and Intervention in Child Protection
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
A comprehensive guide to empirically supported approaches for child protection cases
The Wiley Handbook of What Works in Child Maltreatment offers clinicians, psychologists, psychiatrists and other professionals an evidence-based approach to best professional practice when working in the area...