Forensic Books
Mental Health, Crime and Criminal Justice: Responses and Reforms
It has long been known that the pathway through the criminal justice system for those with mental health needs is fraught with difficulty. This interdisciplinary collection explores key issues in... (more)
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)
Sexual Abuse and the Sexual Offender: Common Man or Monster?
Sexual Abuse and the Sexual Offender examines the myths perpetuated by the media and widely held by the public, by providing actual data, with case examples, to demonstrate how sexual offending... (more)
Offenders, Deviants or Patients?: An Introduction to Clinical Criminology: Fifth Edition
Offenders, Deviants or Patients? provides a practical approach to understanding both the social context and treatment of mentally disordered offenders. Taking into account the current public concern,... (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)
Crime and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Myths and Mechanisms
Having Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can - given certain situational conditions - make individuals more vulnerable to becoming caught up in criminal activity and vulnerable to unfavourable... (more)
Psychotherapy with Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse: The Invisible Men
While the psychotherapeutic world has made significant strides in documenting the treatment of women victims of sexual abuse, little has been written on therapeutic responses to men. This may be... (more)
Disabling Perversions: Forensic Psychotherapy with People with Intellectual Disabilities
The book offers an overview of how to work with some of the most damaged members of society - children and adults with intellectual disabilities who abuse others. Drawing on insight from two decades... (more)
Forensic CBT: A Handbook for Clinical Practice
Forensic CBT: A Handbook for Clinical Practice is an edited collection that represents the first authoritative resource on the utilization of CBT strategies and techniques for offender clients.... (more)
Stalkers and their Victims
New edition of the definitive text on stalking, exploring research, clinical studies and changes in legal status and behaviour.
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Forensic Music Therapy: A Treatment for Men and Women in Secure Hospital Settings
This book demonstrates diverse and innovative approaches, which include live, improvised and pre-composed music, from music therapy teams working in secure treatment settings. The book covers... (more)
Jungian Crime Scene Analysis: An Imaginal Investigation
This book presents the serial killer as having 'imagopathy' – that is, a disorder of the imagination – manifested through such deficiencies as failure of empathy, rigid fantasies, and unresolved... (more)
The Therapeutic Milieu Under Fire: Security and Insecurity in Forensic Mental Health
This book offers fresh, original and stimulating approaches to engagement with individuals who have been multiply excluded from society and who present challenges to traditional psychiatric models of... (more)
Professional and Therapeutic Boundaries in Forensic Mental Health Practice
People who use forensic mental health services are defined by the fact that they have violated boundaries, often in many ways. For clinicians employed to work therapeutically with this client group... (more)
Treating Sex Offenders: An Evidence-Based Manual
This structured yet flexible manual presents an innovative group treatment approach that targets deficits in self-regulation - a central problem for sex offenders. Safe Offender Strategies (SOS)... (more)
Understanding Dunblane and other Massacres: Forensic Studies of Homicide, Paedophilia, and Anorexia
The book predominantly explores the psychic histories of patients who display their transgenerational conflicts/trauma through forensic acts. It establishes the need to consider the details of... (more)
Forensic Issues in Adolescents with Developmental Disabilties
Adolescents with developmental disabilities are a complex population who require specialised treatment and care. This interdisciplinary text examines the processes involved in working with this... (more)
Poker Face in Mental Health Practice: A Primer on Deception Analysis and Detection
Using the latest techniques from poker players to detect when your patients are lying to you.
Forensic psychiatrists frequently deal with deceptive people. In these cases, malingering is the most... (more)
Playing with Dynamite: A Personal Approach to the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Perversions, Violence, and Criminality
Estela Welldon brings together a generous selection derived from her many literary gems, in which she illustrates her groundbreaking-and sometimes explosive-studies of female sexuality and... (more)
Female Sexual Offenders: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment
This book focuses on contemporary topics relevant to individuals who assess female sexual offenders and the first to implement the scientist-practitioner model in the field. It integrates the latest... (more)
The Internal World of the Juvenile Sex Offender: Through a Glass Darkly then Face to Face
The book argues the case for the usefulness of an empirically based understanding of the internal world of juvenile sex offenders as a way of humanely relating to their difficulties. It details the... (more)
Forensic Mental Health: Concepts, Systems, and Practice
In the UK, we lock up more individuals per year than in any other part of Europe. Many of these are suffering from some form of treatable mental disorder, yet too often, prison is viewed as the only... (more)
Working with Violence: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approach
It has become an urgent priority to tackle the problem of violence. But in an age preoccupied with public protection and risk, violent behaviour is more likely to provoke a punitive response than any... (more)
Forensic Neuropsychology in Practice: A Guide to Assessment and Legal Processes
Clinical psychologists and psychiatrists are increasingly being asked to prepare reports for legal purposes. These might involve issues regarding the clients own mental state at the time they... (more)
Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals: In Forensic Settings
Comprehensively focuses on the integration of ethical, legal, and clinical issues for practicing mental health professionals dealing with legal processes in forensic settings. This unique text is... (more)
Therapeutic Relationships with Offenders: An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Forensic Mental Health Nursing
Working in any area of mental health nursing presents complex issues regarding the nurse-patient relationship. For those working in prolonged clinical contact with offenders, relationships with... (more)
Insanity: Murder, Madness, and the Law
The insanity defense is one of the oldest fixtures of the Anglo-American legal tradition. Though it is available to people charged with virtually any crime, and is often employed without controversy,... (more)
Foundations of Forensic Mental Health Assessment
There appears to be nearly universal acknowledgement of a need to disseminate scientific research in forensic assessments to those in the trenches. The Best Practices in Forensic Mental Health... (more)
Personality Disorder: The Definitive Reader
Offers a comprehensive and accessible collection of papers that will be practically useful to practitioners working in secure and non-secure settings with patients who have personality disorders.... (more)
Sexual Offending and Mental Health: Multi-disciplinary Management in the Community
Draws together theoretical, clinical and mental health issues for the range of professionals working in the community and in-patient settings with sex offenders and those who have behaved in sexually... (more)