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Issues and Controversies in Crime and Justice
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Second Edition
By
Bruce Arrigo, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, U.S.A.
Stacey Shipley, North Texas State Hospital, Vernon, U.S.A.
Description
Introduction to Forensic Psychology, Second Edition is an original approach to understanding how psychologists impact
the research, practice, and policy of crime, law, and justice. Divided into four sections on criminal forensics, civil forensics, policing
and law enforcement, and corrections and prison practices, the text examines police, court, and correctional aspects of forensic psychology.
Each of the twelve chapters are organized around relevant case illustrations, include comprehensive literature reviews, and discuss policy
implications and avenues of future research. Each chapter additionally incorporates research on race, gender, and class, as well as including
a practice update, highlighting a timely issue or controversy.
The text thoughtfully explores a wide range of adult, juvenile, family,
and community themes of interest to students, practitioners, and administrators. New to the Second Edition is a chapter
on international criminal forensic psychology, and sections on assessing psychiatric work-related disability, termination of parental
rights, counseling prison populations, malingering, crisis intervention in prisons/jails, and child custody evaluations. Suitable as
a primary text for courses on psychology and criminal justice, the book may also serve as a reference tool for practicing forensic psychologists.
Audience
Students in courses at the upper level undergraduate and graduate level in forensic psychology; psychologists in legal environments, police officers, and attorneys.
Contents
Part I: Court and the Legal Systems: Criminal Forensics.
Adult Forensics.
Overview.
Competency to Stand Trial.
Jury Selection.
Psychological Tests and Forensic Assessment Instruments in the Courtroom.
Violence) Risk Assessment.
Forensic Verdicts
or Psych. Justice: NGRI and GBMI.
Competency Restoration and Manifest Dangerousness: The Maximum Security Forensic Hospital.
Malingering
Mental Illness: Issues of Secondary Gain.
Juvenile/Family Forensics.
Defining the Age of Criminal Responsibility.
Children/Juveniles
and the Reliability of Their Courtroom Testimony.
Sentencing: Psychology of Juvenile Rehabilitation.
Family Violence: Homicide.
Domestic
Violence.
International Criminal Forensics.
Overview.
Adult Criminal Forensics.
Juvenile Forensics.
Race, Gender, and
Class.PART II: Court and Legal System: Civil Forensics.
Adult Forensics.
Overview.
Defining Mental Illness.
Right to Refuse.
Least Restrictive Alternative Doctrine.
Evaluating Psychiatric Work-Related Disability.
Duty to Inform versus Client
Confidentiality.
Victim-Offender Mediation.
Juvenile Forensics.
Overview.
Children/Juveniles and the Reliability of
Their Courtroom Testimony.
Best Interests of the Child Doctrine.
Termination of Parental Rights.
Family Forensics.
Overview.
Child Custody Evaluations.
Family Trauma and the Cycle of Crime.
Impact of Mental Health Law Doctrines on Families: Paternalism and Parens
Patriae.
Gay/Lesbian Rights and Definitions of the Family.PART III: Police and Law Enforcement.
Adult Issues in Policing/Psychology.
Overview.
Criminal Profiling.
Use of Force.
Coerced Confessions.
Critical Incidents Debriefing.
Juvenile Issues in Policing/Psychology.
Overview.
Dealing with Troubled Youths.
Policing Juvenile Gangs.
Juvenile?s Attitudes toward the Police.
Adolescent Female Prostitutes:
Criminals or Victims?
Family/Community Issues in Policing/Psychology.
Police as Mediators in Domestic Disputes.
Police
Work and Family Stress.
Police and the Mentally Ill.
Community Policing: Trendy or Effective.
Police Training: Communication Skills and
Conflict Resolution.
Policing Minority Populations.Part IV: Corrections and Prison Practices.
Adult Issues in Corrections/Correctional
Psychology.
Overview.
Offender?s Right to Refuse Treatment.
Crisis Intervention in Prisons.
Counseling Prison Populations and
Prisoner Classification.
Incarcerating the Mentally Ill.
Sex Offender Treatment.
Prison Violence.
Inmate Sexuality.
Juvenile
Issues in Corrections/Correctional Psychology.
Overview.
Juveniles in Adult Jails.
Juveniles on Death Row.
Juvenile Boot Camp.
Suicide among Incarcerated Juveniles.
Incarceration of Status Offenders.
Family/Community Issues in Corrections/Correctional
Psychology.
Psychological Stress and Correctional Work.
Mentally Disabled Inmates.
Society?s Reaction to Sex Offenders.
Women
Working in Male Prisons.
"Make-Believe" Families.
Female Prisoners and Mother-Child Separation.
Female Inmates: Mothers in Prison.
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 600 pages, publication date: DEC-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-064351-6
ISBN-10: 0-12-064351-0
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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