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Forensic Psychology : Concepts, Debates and Practice, Paperback / softback Book

Forensic Psychology : Concepts, Debates and Practice Paperback / softback

Edited by Joanna Adler, Jacqueline Gray

Paperback / softback

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This book brings together academics, practitioners and experts in the field of forensic psychology to demonstrate the scope of the discipline and push its parameters.

Its aim is to go beyond introductory texts to challenge perceptions, to raise questions for research and to pose problems for practice.

The editors hope to inspire and stimulate debate about how forensic psychology can aid the practice of justice. The book is divided into six sections, addressing key topics from the discipline: investigation and prosecution; testimony and evidence; serious and persistent offending; treatment as intervention; intervention and prevention and punishment and corrections.

The contributors are drawn from the UK, the USA and Australia. This updated, revised and significantly expanded edition develops the picture of diversity and depth of forensic psychology; considers ways in which the discipline has progressed and identifies challenges for its future sustainability and growth. includes a new section on treatment as intervention with contributions on personality disordered offenders; anger control group work with forensic psychiatric inpatients; and developments in treatment for drug misuse offendersadditional chapters throughout including contributions on UK police interviews; the investigation and prosecutoin of rape; the effect of gender in the courtroom; forensic psychology and terrorism; the aetiology of genocide; self harm in prisons; post-corrections reintegration and many morean innovative textbook on forensic psychology exploring application of the subject and setting forensic psychology in a broader contextdemonstrates ways in which forensic psychology can aid the practice of criminal justiceThis book will be essential reading for students of forensic psychology and practitioners working in the field.

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