Forensic Books
Young People in Forensic Mental Health Settings: Psychological Thinking and Practice
Youth crime and youth violence blights our communities and shapes the lives of many, whether they are victims, perpetrators or family members. This book examines the application of psychological... (more)
Psychiatric Aspects of Justification, Excuse and Mitigation - The Jurisprudence of Mental Abnormality in Anglo-American Criminal Law:
Violent crimes committed by the mentally disordered raise issues of moral responsibility and public protection. This study analyzes the principles underlying those medical and legal devices which... (more)
Prison Madness: The Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars and What We Must Do About It
Documenting the incarceration of thousands of mentally incapacitated individuals, this passionate call for appropriate services and rehabilitation also suggests that a lack of such programs... (more)
Early Prevention of Adult Antisocial Behaviour
Examines the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of early prevention programmes on levels of adult antisocial behaviour. (more)
Interviewing children: A guide for child care and forensic practitioners
This text offers practitioners an understanding of children's language abilities at different development stages, and gives clear guidelines on strategies that professionals might adopt to facilitate... (more)
Good Practice in Working with Violence
Designed to be relevant for a variety of practice settings, this text provides a comprehensive guide to the techniques and skills required for good practice in assessing and managing violence. (more)
Social Psychology in Forensic Practice
This book explores how different social psychology theories and concepts can be applied to practice. Considering theories from attribution theory to coercion theory, social identity theories to... (more)
Safeguarding the Quality of Forensic Assessment in Sentencing: A Review Across Western Nations
This edited collection provides an interdisciplinary and cross-national perspective on safeguarding the quality of forensic assessment in sentencing offenders.
Taking an in-depth look at seven... (more)
#MeToo for Women and Men: Understanding Power through Sexual Harassment
MeToo for Women and Men provides an overview of sexual violence and an accessible guide to the MeToo movement, presenting a timely look at the evidence from diverse fields. Its evidence-based... (more)
Clinical Assessment of Malingering and Deception: Fourth Edition
Widely used by practitioners, researchers, and students--and now thoroughly revised with 70% new material--this is the most authoritative, comprehensive book on malingering and other response styles. (more)
Assessing and Managing Problematic Sexual Interests: A Practitioner's Guide
Assessing and Managing Problematic Sexual Interests: A Practitioner’s Guide provides a thorough review of atypical sexual interests and offers various ways through which they can be measured and... (more)
The Handbook of Forensic Learning Disabilities
Fourteen academics, consultants, researchers, and mental health professionals from England and Scotland contribute 11 chapters to a resource for health and social care professionals working with... (more)
Forensic Psychology
This work aims to provide an in-depth overview of forensic psychology, demonstrating the scope and techniques of forensic psychology in key areas of research, policy and practice. It raises questions... (more)
Prison violence: Conflict, power and victimization
Prisons are dangerous places - assaults and threats are pervasive - this is attributable to the characteristics of the captive population and an institutional culture which promotes violence. This... (more)
Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream: A Forensic Psychiatrist Illuminates the Darker Side of Human Behaviour
This text provides insights into the minds of rapists, serial killers, psychopaths, and other individuals whose behaviour both frightens and fascinates us. It works to break down the false separation... (more)
Race, Culture and Ethnicity in Secure Psychiatric Practice: Working with Difference
People from ethnic minorities are overrepresented in secure psychiatric care, and have been reported to receive differential treatment from staff. This text questions whether Western, white-oriented... (more)
Forensic Psychological Assessment in Practice: Case Studies
Forensic Psychological Assessment in Practice: Case Studies presents a set of forensic criminal cases as examples of a scientist-practitioner model for forensic psychological assessment. The cases... (more)
Psychology in Prisons: Second Edition
Fully updated to take account of structural changes within the prison and probation services, "Psychology in Prisons" takes an in-depth look at the work of psychologists in prisons strengthened by... (more)
Murder and Society
Human psychological and physical well being is damaged and destroyed when people are deliberately killed by other people. There are millions of primary and secondary victims of murder throughout the... (more)
Therapeutic Interventions for Forensic Mental Health Nurses:
This text explores the current and emerging interventions in forensic nursing and the care of the mentally-disordered offender, with an emphasis on clinical practice and competence. It explores the... (more)
Will They Do It Again?: Risk Assessment and Management in Criminal Justice and Psychiatry
This volume considers the issue of public protection within a broad context of risk in society generally, and more specifically risks popularly perceived to be posed by the mentally ill. It examines... (more)
Violence and Mental Disorder
Violence and Mental Disorder takes the debate about violence into new territory by increasing our understanding of the wide range of factors associated with the commission of violence. (more)
Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment:
This handbook provides a resource on the rehabilitation and treatment of offenders in community, residential prison and secure hospital settings. It includes a range of approaches to treatment,... (more)
Forensic Nursing and Multidisciplinary Care of the Mentally Disordered Offender
This volume is an account of forensic nursing and its role within the wider professional team. Its aim is to provide a multidisciplinary perspective on the training needed to work with mentally... (more)
Forensic Psychology: A Practitioner's Guide
Explaining the history and application of forensic psychology, this reference and guide details the various kinds of psychologist involved in the field and the evidence they might produce. Topics... (more)
Offender rehabilitation in practice: Implementing and evaluating effective programs
This book to focuses on the transfer of knowledge of worldwide effective offender rehabilitation programmes. It reviews "real world" challenges of programme effectiveness and survival and offers... (more)