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This book is a broad introduction to the field of forensic psychology. It is written by one of the best known authors in the field, Curt Bartol. While students most often associate forensic psychology with criminal profiling, crime scene investigations, and serial murder, this text covers the many others areas where psychology has played a significant role in providing research knowledge to the civil and criminal justice systems. The book is a readable summary of contemporary research and practice across a broad spectrum of topics. Practical applications are discussed where pertinent, and case law discussions are found throughout the text. This book is likely to capitalize on the growing interest, both in popular media and in University departments where enrollments have been increasing steadily over the past several years.

· Comprehensive - This text covers a broad specturm of topics, articulately distinguishes between the different fields of Forensic Psychology for an audience with limited exposure to psychology, and introduces students to the field with a variety of contemporary examples throughout.

· Writing Style: Very accessible for undergraduate students, especially. Reviewers of the manuscript uniformly praised the book′s readability while maintaining a scholarly level of coverage.

· Insert Boxes - The Insert boxes illustrate the main points of the narrative through overviews of specific criminal justice case studies, as well as examples of criminal profiles, career possibilities, legal standards of proof, legal guidelines for investigations, and ethical guidelines for research and applications. Overall, these boxes have been designed to be a substantive, rather than add-on, part of the text and are likely to spark debate and discussion in the classroom.

· Chapter Summaries - The chapter summaries provide a succinct overview of the material covered in each of the chapters.

· End-of-chapter discussion questions and key concept lists will help students review the chapter material.

· The authors, Curt and Anne Bartol, have many years of combined experience in the Forensic Psychology and Criminal Justice field in the classroom, as practioners, and as successful authors and researchers. Curt is the longtime editor of the journal, Criminal Justice and Behavior, along with Criminal Behavior 6/e, the top-selling textbook in that area.

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• I Introduction
• Chapter 1 Forensic Psychology: Introduction and Overview
• 1 Example of Forensic Science: Forensic Entomology
• 2 Another Example: Questioned Documents
• 3 Computer Evidence Recovery
• B Forensic Psychology: An Overview
• 1 Forensic Psychology Compared to Forensic Psychiatry
• C Careers in Psychology
• 1 Education and Training
• D Forensic Psychology as a New Specialty
• 1 Educational and Training Requirements in Forensic Psychology
• 1 Educational and Training Requirements in Forensic Psychology
• 2 Police Psychology: An Overview
• 3 Psychology of Crime and Delinquency
• 4 Victimology and Victim Services
• 5 Legal Psychology
• 6 Correctional Psychology: An Overview
• 7 Defining Forensic Psychology-A Recap
• E Summary and Conclusions
• II Police And Investigative Psychology
• Chapter 2 Police Psychology: History and Practice
• A Trends in Police Psychology
• B The First Trend: Mental and Aptitude Testing
• C The Second Trend: Personality Assessment
• 1 Situational Testing
• 2 Personality Measures of Police Corruption
• 3 Conclusions of Personality Testing
• D The Third Trend: Stress Management
• 1 Occupational Stressors in Law Enforcement
• 2 Types of Police Stress
• 3 Summary
• E The Fourth Trend: Fairness in Testing
• 1 Minority Police Officers
• 2 Gender Issues in Policing
• 3 The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
• F Special Circumstances in Policing
• 1 Excessive Force
• 2 Dealing with the Mentally Disordered
• 3 Post-Shooting Traumatic Reactions
• 4 Fitness-For-Duty Evaluations
• 5 Police Suicide
• 6 Special Unit Evaluations
• 7 Hostage Taking Incidents
• G Police Interrogation and False Confessions
• H Summary and Conclusions
• Chapter 3 Investigative Psychology
• A Profiling: The Psychological Sketch
• B Criminal Profiling
• 1 Dynamic and Static Risk Factors in Prediction
• 2 Additional Crime Scene Concepts
• C The Psychological Autopsy
• D Geographical Profiling and Mental Mapping
• E Why is Profiling So Inaccurate?
• F The Polygraph
• 1 A Brief History of the Polygraph
• 2 Current Usage of the Polygraph
• 3 Traditional Procedures Used by Polygraphers
• 4 Countermeasures
• 5 Research on the Polygraph
• G Forensic Hypnosis
• H Facial Composites in Criminal Identification
• I Identifying Characteristics of the Offender
• 1 Identifying the Face
• 2 Unconscious Transference
• 3 Own Race Bias (ORB)
• J Pretrial Identification Methods
• 1 Lineups and Photospreads
• K Summary and Conclusions
• III Criminal Psychology
• Chapter 4 Development of Habitual Criminal Behavior
• A The Juvenile Offender
• 1 Definition of Juvenile Delinquency
• B The Nature and Extent of Juvenile Offending
• 1 The Uniform Crime Reports
• C Developmental Factors in Juvenile Delinquency
• 1 Developmental Theory
• 2 Attention-Defict/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Delinquency
• 3 Conduct Disorders
• 4 Cognitive Ability and Crime
• D School Crime
• 1 School Violence
• 2 Threat Assessment
• E The Criminal Psychopath
• 1 General Behavioral Characteristics of Psychopaths
• 2 Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy
• 3 Prevalence of Criminal Psychopathy
• 4 Offending Patterns of Criminal Psychopaths
• 5 Psychological Measures of Psychopathy
• 6 Juvenile Psychopathy
• 7 The Female Psychopath
• 8 Racial/Ethnic Differences
• F Summary and Conclusions
• Chapter 5 Psychology of Violence and Intimidation
• A UCR Data on Violent Crime
• B Gender and Cultural Differences in Violence
• C Theoretical Perspectives on Violence
• 1 The Causes of Violence
• 2 The Effects of Violent Media
• 3 Violent Video Games
• C Criminal Homicide
• D Multiple Murder
• 2 Serial Killers
• 3 Serial Killer Typologies
• 3 Mass Murder
• E Workplace Violence
• D Hate or Bias Crimes
• E Stalking: The Crime of Intimidation
• 1 When Does Stalking Usually Stop?
• 2 Predictions of Violence in Stalking Cases
• 3 Cyberstalking
• F Summary and Conclusions
• Chapter 6 Psychology of Sexual Assault
• A Definitions of Sexual Assault and Rape
• 1 Governmental Definitions
• 2 Prevalence and Incidence of Rape and Other Sexual Assaults
• B Date Rape
• C Demographics of Men who Rape
• D Typologies of Men who Rape
• 1 The Massachusetts Treatment Center Rapist Typology
• 2 MTC:R3
• 3 Summary
• 4 The Groth Rapist Typology
• E Pedophilia
• 1 Definitions of Pedophilia
• 2 Some Demographics of Child Molesters
• 3 The MTC:CM3
• 4 The Groth Typology
• F Juvenile Sex Offenders
• 1 Female Juvenile Sex Offenders
• 2 Conclusions and Future Directions
• G Recidivism Rates of Sex Offenders
• H Assessment of Sex Offenders
• 1 Assessing Deviant Sexual Arousal
• I Summary and Conclusions
• IV Victimology And Victim Services
• Chapter 7 Forensic Psychology and the Victims of Crime
• A Multiculturalism and Victimization
• 1 Victims with Disabilities
• 2 Empirically Supported Treatments and Multiculturalism
• B Legal Rights of Victims
• 1 Victims in Civil Courts
• 2 Victims in the Criminal Courts
• C Crime Victimization Data
• 1 Ethnic/Minority Differences in Victimization
• D Psychological Effects of Criminal Victimization
• 1 Psychological Impact of Violence
• 2 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• 3 Homicide Victimization
• 4 Relationship of the Offender to Victim
• 5 Death Notification
• 6 Reactions of Homicide Co-Victims
• F Hate or Bias Crime Victimization
• G Sexual Assault Victimization
• 1 Characteristics of the Victims
• 2 Extent of Injury to Victims
• 3 Relationship of the Victim to the Offender
• 4 Other Victim Characteristics
• 5 Psychological Impact of Sexual Assault
• 6 Psychological Effects of Child Sexual Abuse
• H Property Crime Victimization
• 1 Psychological Impact of Burglary
• I Summary and Conclusions
• Chapter 8 Family Violence, Abuse, and Victimization
• A Intimate Partner Violence
• 1 The Typical Development of Intimate Partner Violence
• 2 Psychological Characteristics of Batterers
• 3 Battered Women Syndrome
• 4 Same-Sex Domestic Violence
• 5 The Roles of the Forensic Psychologist in Domestic Violence
• 6 Forensic Assessment of Domestic Violence
• 7 Assessment of Victim Reactions
• 8 Risk Assessment: Is the Victim Safe?
• 9 Necessary Training for Domestic Violence Assessment
• B Child Abuse
• 1 Types of Maltreatment
• 2 Pet and Child Abuse
• 3 Dynamics of Family Violence
• 4 Infanticide, Neonaticide, and Filicide
• 5 Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy
• 6 Shaken Baby Syndrome
• C Repressed and Recovered Memories
• 1 Special Expert Panels on Repressed Memory
• 2 Research Sketches of Human Memory and Its Limitations
• 3 Roles of the Forensic Psychologist in Child Abuse Cases
• D Child Abduction
• 1 Psychological Impact of Abduction
• E Elder Abuse and Neglect
• 1 Roles of the Forensic Psychologist in Elder Abuse
• G Summary and Conclusions
• V Psychology And The Courts
• Chapter 9 Consulting and Testifying
• A Court Structure and Jurisdiction
• 1 Civil and Criminal Courts
• B The Judicial Process
• 1 The Pre-trial Stage
• 2 The Trial Stage
• 3 The Disposition Stage
• 4 The Appellate Stage
• C Trial Consultation
• 1 Scientific Jury Selection
• 2 Witness Preparation
• 3 The Voir Dire
• 4 Trial Consultation: The Main Concerns
• D Expert Testimony
• 1 Expert Certification
• 2 Legal Standards for the Admission of Scientific Evidence474
• 3 The Confidentiality Issue
• 4 Ultimate Issue or Ultimate Opinion Testimony
• E Surviving the Witness Stand
• F The Assessment of Risk
• 1 Communication of Risk
• 2 Risk Assessment Instruments
• G Summary and Conclusions
• Chapter 10 Consulting with Criminal Courts
• A Preventive Detention
• B Criminal Competencies
• 1 Legal Standard for Competency
• 2 Evaluating Adjudicative Competence
• 3 Competency Assessment Instruments
• 4 Assessment of Malingering
• 5 Restoration to Competence
• 6 Drugs and the Incompetent Defendant
• C Insanity
• 1 Assessment of Criminal Responsibility
• 2 Insanity Trials
• 3 Treatment of Defendants Found Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity
• D Sentencing Evaluations
• 1 Risk Assessment
• 2 Capital Sentencing
• 3 Sex Offender Sentencing
• E Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators
• F Summary and Conclusions
• Chapter 11 Consultation With Civil Courts
• A Juvenile Courts
• 1 Historical Background
• 2 Supreme Court decisions
• B Juvenile Assessment: An Overview
• 3 Assessment of Competence to Waive Miranda Rights
• 4 Evaluating Adjudicative Competence
• 5 The Lawyer-Client Relationship
• 6 Amenability to rehabilitation
• C Family and Probate Courts
• D Child Custody Evaluations
• 1 Child Custody Standards
• 2 Methods of Evaluation in Child Custody Cases
• 3 Visitation Risk Assessments
• 4 Research on Custody Arrangements
• D Decisional Competency
• 1 Testamentary capacity
• 2 Competence to Consent to Treatment
• 3 Incapacitation: Special Condition
• E Involuntary Civil Commitment
• 1 Outpatient Civil Commitment
• 2 Role of Forensic Psychologists
• F Other Civil Disputes
• G Sexual harassment
• 1 Psychological Measures of Sexual Harassment
• 2 Private Life Issues in Sexual Harassment Cases
• H Employment Compensation and Personal Injury Claims
• I Summary and Conclusions
• VI Correctional Psychology
• Chapter 12 Correctional Psychology in Adult Settings
• A Institutional Corrections
• B Overview of Correctional Facilities
• C Legal Rights of Inmates
• 1 Right to Treatment
• 2 Right to Refuse Treatment
• 3 Right to Rehabilitation
• 4 Prison Transfers
• 5 Mentally Disordered Inmates
• 6 Privacy and Confidentiality
• 7 Solitary Confinement
• 8 Pre-trial Detainees
• D Correctional Psychologists
• E Psychological Assessment in Corrections
• 1 Initial Inmate Screening and Classification
• 2 Release Decision Making
• 3 Crisis Intervention
• 4 Assessment of Correctional Personnel
• 5 Competency to be Executed
• F Treatment and Rehabilitation in Correctional Facilities
• 1 Common Psychological Treatment in Corrections
• G Treatment of Special Populations
• 1 Violent Offenders
• 2 Criminal Psychopaths
• 3 Sex Offender Treatment
• 4 Women Offenders
• 5 Treatment in Jail Settings
• 6 Treatment and Counseling of Correctional Officers
• H Obstacles to treatment of Inmates and Staff
• 1 Confidentiality
• 2 Coercion
• 3 Environment
• I Community-Based Corrections
• J Summary and Conclusions
• C hapter 13: Juvenile Corrections
• A Historical Overview
• B Approaches to Rehabilitation
• 1 Group Home Models
• 2 Family Preservation Models
• 3 Substance Abuse Models
• 4 Boot Camps
• 5 Wilderness and Adventure Programs
• 6 Violence Prevention Programs
• 7 Juvenile Sex Offender Treatment Programs
• D Summary and Conclusions

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Curt R. Bartol was a college professor for more than 30 years, teaching a wide variety of both undergraduate and graduate courses, including Biopsychology, Criminal Behavior, Juvenile Delinquency, Introduction to Forensic Psychology, Social Psychology, Profiling, and Psychology and Law. He earned his PhD in personality/social psychology from Northern Illinois University in 1972. He studied political science and law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under a fellowship from the National Institute for the Humanities (NIH). He was instrumental in creating and launching Castleton State College's graduate program in forensic psychology and served as its director for 6 years. As a licensed clinical psychologist, he has been a consulting police psychologist to local, municipal, state, and federal law enforcement agencies for over 30 years. In addition to Introduction to Forensic Psychology , he has coauthored Criminal Behavior: A Psychosocial Approach (now in its 11th ed.), Juvenile Delinquency and Antisocial Behavior: A Developmental Perspective (3rd ed.), Criminal and Behavioral Profiling, and Psychology and Law: Theory, Research, and Application (3rd ed.). He served as editor of SAGE's Criminal Justice and Behavior: An International Journal , for 17 years. He also co-edited Current Perspectives in Forensic Psychology and Criminal Behavior (3rded.).

Anne M. Bartol earned an MA and a PhD in criminal justice from State University of New York at Albany. She also holds an MA in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She taught criminal justice, sociology, and journalism courses over a 20-year college teaching career and has worked as a journalist and a social worker in child and adolescent protective services. In addition to Introduction to Forensic Psychology , she has coauthored Juvenile Delinquency: A Systems Approach; Delinquency and Justice: A Psychosocial Approach; Psychology and Law: Theory, Research, and Application; Criminal Behavior ; and Criminal and Behavioral Profiling . She co-edited Current Perspectives , has served as book review editor and managing editor of Criminal Justice and Behavior and has published articles on women and criminal justice, rural courts, and the history of forensic psychology.