Forensic Psychology

This book brings together a team of authorities in the field of forensic psychology to demonstrate the scope of the discipline and the techniques employed in key areas of research, policy and practice. Its aim is to go beyond the introductory texts on the subject to challenge perceptions, to raise questions for research and to pose problems for practice: and to inspire and stimulate, demonstrating the ways in which forensic psychology can aid the practice of criminal justice. It will be essential reading for students, academics and practitioners. "Forensic Psychology: Concepts, Debates and Practice (2/e)" is divided into six sections, addressing key topics with which the discipline is concerned - investigation and prosecution, testimony and evidence, serious and persistent offending, treatment as intervention, intervention and prevention and punishment and corrections. The contributors include both academics and practitioners, and are drawn from the UK, the USA and Australasia. This fully updated, revised and significantly expanded edition develops the picture of diversity and depth of forensic psychology that has been built over the past few years and considers some of the ways in which the discipline has progressed. This title includes a new section on treatment as intervention with contributions on personal ity disordered offenders; anger control group work with forensic psychiatric inpatients; and, developments in treatment for drug misuse offenders. It features: additional chapters throughout including contributions on UK police interviews; the investigation and prosecution of rape; the effect of gender in the courtroom; forensic psychology and terrorism; the aetiology of genocide; self harm in prisons; and, post-corrections reintergration and many more. This is an innovative textbook on forensic psychology exploring the full scope of the subject and setting forensic psychology in a broader context. It demonstrates ways in which forensic psychology can aid the practice of criminal justice. This book will be essential reading for students of forensic psychology and practitioners working in the filed.

ISBN 1843924145   Pages 560 ISBN13 9781843924142 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 1043 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Published in Cullompton Imprint Willan Publishing   Previous ISBN 9781843920090 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 01 May 2010   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 364.3   Spine width (mm) 38 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Notes on contributors
		Introduction
1		Forensic psychology: some concepts and debates about practice by Jacqueline M. Gray		1
		References		12
Section 1		Investigation and Prosecution		15
2		Miscarriages of justice: what can we learn? by Stephen P. Savage		17
		Introduction		17
		What is a miscarriage of justice? A definition		18
		Miscarriages of justice: a history. Concerns about police competence		19
		Miscarriages of justice as a driver for change		23
		Safer UK Justice?		27
		Miscarriages of justice in the United States of America		29
		USA and UK similarities and differences		31
		Minimising Miscarriages of justice		32
		References		33
		Appendix		36
3		The interpretation and utilisation of offender profiles: a critical review of átraditional' approaches to profiling by Louise Almond		38
		The plausibility of traditional approaches to offender profiling		40
		Assumptions underlying traditional approaches to profiling		40
		The evaluation of profiles		43
		The interpretation of profiles		45
		The process of investigation		48
		Stories and profiles		50
		Case-based reasoning in criminal investigation: novice and expert		51
		References		53
4		UK police interviews with suspects: a short modern history by John Bearchell		58
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