Criminal or Forensic Psychology

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...

This book is about the practice and underlying theory of psychodynamic group therapy as undertaken in the Portman Clinic. It offers an overview of ...

Deviant behavior is not a subject that you study in school and then file away. It is a study of life and is ever changing. Defining the concept of ...

This book increases the reader's understanding of violent children and the value and vicissitudes of their psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psycho...

This book provides an overview of Asphyxial Deaths which includes hanging, strangulation, choking, smothering, gagging, drowning, aspiration, mecha...

Recognition and diagnosis of child abuse and neglect creates an important foundation for the protection of children. Physicians and other healthcar...

Written by one of the leading figures in biosocial criminology and evolutionary psychology, this work explores the tight relationship between crimi...

Psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals may be experts in their respective fields, but this expertise does not easily t...

This book seeks to distinguish empirically-based knowledge from widespread misconceptions in the fields of legal and forensic psychology. Across te...

This handbook of forensic victimology focuses on femi(ni)cide contexts, offering instructional tools for legal and forensic investigation from a tr...

The dramatic, compelling bestselling true story of how a serial killer was finally unmasked after evading justice for more than twenty yearsNow a m...

Forensic psychiatrist Emanuel Tanay has testified in thousands of court cases as an expert witness, including such notorious cases as those of Jack...

When Face Recognition Goes Wrong explores the myriad ways that humans and machines make mistakes in facial recognition. Adopting a critical stance ...

When Face Recognition Goes Wrong explores the myriad ways that humans and machines make mistakes in facial recognition. Adopting a critical stance ...