Forensic Psychology category: 378 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Handbook of Forensic Mental Health Services focuses on assessment, treatment, and policy issues regarding juveniles and adults in the criminal and civil systems. Uniquely, this volume is designed for professionals who deliver mental health services, rather than researchers. Just like its parent series,...
by Katherine Ramsland
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Psychologists involved in assessments for the courtroom or consultations for investigation or risk management follow a distinct protocol. Ramsland offers a comprehensive guide to writers for reference on these procedures and terms, using actual cases as well as examples from fiction and film to illustrate...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
A practical handbook for practitioners that covers the assessment, treatment and management of sexual offenders with intellectual disabilities – an area of growing interest within clinical forensic psychology.
New for the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology: a practical handbook that...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
This book it is a comprehensive guide, aimed at professionals, that starts with the interview of the victim of the crime, moving through the interviewing of suspects, to the decision to prosecute and enhancing the quality of evidence presented in court. Other topics discussed include: false allegations,...
The Roots of Modern Psychology and Law
A Narrative History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Psychology's formal interaction with law began early in the twentieth century, though little in the way of substantive scholarly and professional development occurred until several decades later. The emergence of psychology and law as a modern field of scholarship was marked by the founding of the...
by Francis Pakes, Suzanne Pakes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book provides an accessible introduction to the increasingly popular subject of criminal psychology. It explores the application of psychology to understanding the crime phenomenon, criminal behaviour,solving crimes, the court process and punishment rehabilitation. It will be an invaluable resource...
by Julie Harrower
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2001
Psychology in Practice is the definitive six-part series on the practical applications of psychology to areas of everyday life, covering crime, education, health, sport, organisations and the environment. Each book in the series examines one unit of the Applications of Psychology section of the OCR...
Death's Acre
Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
Dr. Bill Bass, one of the world's leading forensic anthropologists, gained international attention when he built a forensic lab like no other: The Body Farm. Now, this master scientist unlocks the gates of his lab to reveal his most intriguing cases-and to revisit the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder, fifty years after the fact.
The Murder Room
The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Ca ses
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Thrilling, true tales from the Vidocq Society, a team of the world's finest forensic investigators whose monthly gourmet lunches lead to justice in ice-cold murders
Three of the greatest detectives in the world--a renowned FBI agent turned private eye, a sculptor and lothario who speaks to...
Behind the Gates of Gomorrah
A Year with the Criminally Insane
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
A darker twist on Orange is the New Black, this true insider's account delivers an eye-opening look into the nation’s largest state-run forensic hospital, a facility that houses the real-life Hannibal Lecters of the world.
Psychiatrist Stephen Seager was no stranger to locked psych wards...
True Stories of CSI
The Real Crimes Behind the Best Episodes of the Popular TV Show
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
The bestselling forensic psychologist examines the true crimes that inspired the television smash hit, C.S.I.
Katherine Ramsland follows the evidence and revisits some of the most absorbing episodes of the phenomenally popular C.S.I. television franchise, and explores the real-life crimes that...
Crime Classification Manual
A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crime
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Praise for Crime Classification Manual
"The very first book by and for criminal justice professionals in the major case fields. . . . The skills, techniques, and proactive approaches offered are creatively concrete and worthy of replication across the country. . . . Heartily recommended for...
Forensic Detective
How I Cracked the World's Toughest Cases
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Death. It’s not only inevitable and frightening, it’s intriguing and fascinating–especially today, when science continues to make ever more stunning advances in the investigation of the oldest and darkest of mysteries. To discover the how and why of death, unearth its roots, and expose the mechanics...
Bodies We've Buried
Inside the National Forensic Academy, the World's Top CSI TrainingSchool
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Two National Forensic Science Institute administrators invite readers into what the Washington Post calls "the Harvard of hellish violence"-the only hands-on CSI school of its kind where students are trained in burial recovery with actual human remains. With exclusive access to a world normally off-limits...