Criminal or Forensic Psychology

From experts on working with court-mandated populations, this book shows how motivational interviewing (MI) can help offenders move beyond resistan...

David Houston Jones builds a bridge between practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader fie...

This book explores the response of forensic psychiatry and psychology to changes over the last several decades. It presents the disciplines themsel...

This title was first published in 2000: Few areas of criminal activity have sustained such widely held attention as serial murder. This volume char...

Estela Welldon brings together a generous selection derived from her many literary gems, in which she illustrates her groundbreaking-and sometimes ...

What does a criminological psychologist actually do? Most people picture a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, helping the police to solve crimes, but the ...

The increasing portrayal of forensic investigative techniques in the popular mediaCSI, for example, has resulted in criminals becoming forensically...

Remember: Do it right the first time. You only get one chance. Vernon J. Geberth, M.S., M.P.S., 1980, Homicide and Forensic Consultant, Author of P...

Traditionally, criminal profiling texts have focused exclusively on the technicalities of conducting an investigation, but recent developments in c...

This book provides a comprehensive dissemination of theoretically grounded and empirically sound research on sex offenders and sex offending. It us...

This treatment program targets the criminal, behavioral, and mental health problems of inmates in segregated housing that prevents them from living...

This brief explores the justification of the death penalty, using the 2018 Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, as ...

This second edition takes a multidisciplinary and practical approach to online sexual offending, providing psychologists and other professionals wi...

This book examines the criminalization of Black men and the need for penal system reform that allows for their mental, physical, financial, and emo...

Sexual Murder: Catathymic and Compulsive Homicides is the culmination of the authors 45 years of experience with, and studying, sexually motivated ...

Beliefs and expectancies influence our everyday thoughts, feelings, and actions. These attributes make a closer examination of beliefs and expectan...

The line that separates those who kill from those who only think about it, and from those who injure themselves, is often thinner than we imagine. ...

This book examines the myths perpetuated by the media and by the public, by providing actual data, with case examples. It demonstrates how sexual o...

Featuring a unique overview of the different forms of extreme violence, this book considers the psychology of extreme violence alongside a variety ...

This volume looks at the reasons behind adolescent violence, and illuminates the earlier disturbances in the life history of the adolescent, which ...

This book presents the serial killer as having 'imagopathy' - that is, a disorder of the imagination - manifested through such deficiencies as fail...

There are more than 20 theories that explain crime. Each theory has weaknesses, and no scholar knows which theory is best. To remedy this unsatisfa...

The book predominantly explores the psychic histories of patients who display their transgenerational conflicts/trauma through forensic acts. It es...

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces e...