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Covering a broad spectrum of topics, this text distinguishes between the different fields of forensic psychology for a non-specialist audience, and introduces students to the field with a variety of contemporary examples to illustrate major arguments.

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• Part I Introduction
• 1 Forensic Psychology: Introduction and Overview
• ForensicPsychology: An Overview
• Careers In Psychology
• Forensic Psychology as a New Specialty
• Defining Forensic Psychology
• Summary and Conclusions
• Part II Police And Investigative Psychology
• 2 Police Psychology: History and Practice
• Trends in Police Psychology
• The First Trend: Mental and Aptitude Testing
• The Second Trend: Personality Assessment
• The Third Trend: Stress Management
• The Fourth Trend: Fairness in Testing
• Special Circumstances in Policing
• Polic Interrogation and False Confessions
• Summary and Conclusions
• 3 Investigative Psychology
• Profiling
• Criminal Profiling
• The Psychological Autopsy
• Geographical Profiling and Mental Mapping
• Why Is Profiling So Inaccurate?
• The Polygraph
• Forensic Hypnosis
• Identifying the Offender: Other Procedures
• Pretrial Identification Methods
• Summary and Conclusions
• Part III Psychology And The Courts
• 4 Consulting and Testifying
• Court Structure and Jurisdiction
• The Judicial Process
• Trial Consultation
• Expert Testimony
• Surviving the Witness Stand
• The Assessment of Risk
• Summary and Conclusions
• 5 Consulting With Criminal Courts
• Preventive Detention
• Criminal Competencies
• Insanity
• Sentencing Evaluations
• Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators
• Summary and Conclusions
• 6 Consulting With Civil Courts
• Juvenile Courts
• Juvenile Assessment: An Overview
• Family and Probate Courts
• Decisional Competency
• Involuntary Civil Commitment
• Other Civil Disputes
• Sexual Harrassment
• Employment Compensation and Personal Injury Claims
• Summary and Conclusions
• Part IV Criminal Psychology
• 7 The Development of Habitual Criminal Behavior
• The Juvenile Offender
• The Nature and Extent of Juvenile Offending
• The Developmental Perspective
• Coercion Developmental Model
• Developmental Factors in the Formation of Crime and Delinquency
• School Violence
• Juvenile Firesetting
• The Criminal Psychopath
• Summary and Conclusions
• 8 Psychology of Violence and Intimidation
• UCR Data on Violent Crime
• Gender, Race, and Ethnic Differences in Criminal Violence
• Criminal Homicide
• Mulitiple Murder
• Workplace Violence
• Hate or Bias Crimes
• Stalking: The Crime of Intimidation
• Summary and Conclusions
• 9 Psychology of Sexual Assault
• Definitions of Sexual Assault and Rape
• Date Rape
• Demographics of Men Who Rape
• Typologies of Men Who Rape
• Pedophilia
• Juvenile Sex Offenders
• Recidivism Rates of Sex Offenders
• Assessment of Sex Offenders
• Summary and Conclusions
• Part V Victimology And Victim Services
• 10 Forensic Psychology and the Victims of Crime
• Multiculturalism and Victimization
• Legal Rights of Victims
• Crime Victimization Data
• Psychological Effects of Crime Victimization
• Hate or Bias Crime Victimization
• Sexual Assault Victimization
• Property Crime Victimization
• Summary and Conclusions
• 11 Family Violence, Abuse, and Victimization
• Intimate Partner Violence
• Child Abuse
• Repressed and Recovered Memories
• Child Abduction
• Elder Abuse and Neglect
• Summary and Conclusions
• Part VI Correctional Psychology
• 12 Correctional Psychology in Adult Settings
• Institutional Corrections
• Overview of Correctional Facilities
• Legal Rights of Inmates
• Correctional Psychologists
• Psychological Assessment on Corrections
• Treatment and Rehabilitation in Correctional Facilities
• Treatment of Special Populations
• Obstacles to the Treatment of Inmates and Staff
• Community-Based Corrections
• Summary and Conclusions
• 13 Juvenile Corrections
• Historical Overview
• Approaches to Rehabilitation
• Summary and Conclusions
• Key Concepts and Review Questions
• Cases Cited
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• About the Authors