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Forensic Psychology is essential reading for all undergraduate courses in forensic psychology and an excellent introduction for more detailed postgraduate courses. Expert authors cover every aspect of forensic psychology, from understanding criminal behaviour, to applying psychological theory to criminal investigation, to analysis of the legal process and the roles of witnesses, to the treatment of offenders.

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• List of Contributors(p. xix)
• Preface to Second Edition(p. xxi)
• About the Editors(p. xxiii)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• Part I The Causes of Crime(p. 15)
• 1 Psychological Approaches to Understanding Crime(p. 17)
• 2 Developmental and Psychological Theories of Offending(p. 37)
• 3 Contributions of Forensic Neuroscience(p. 55)
• 4 Effects of Interpersonal Crime on Victims(p. 77)
• Part II Investigating Crime(p. 97)
• 5 Eyewitness Evidence(p. 99)
• 6 Interviewing Vulnerable Witnesses(p. 115)
• 7 Interviewing Suspects(p. 135)
• 8 Detecting Deception(p. 151)
• 9 Offender Profi ling and Crime Linkage(p. 171)
• 10 Intimate Partner Violence and Stalking(p. 189)
• 11 Terrorism(p. 207)
• Part III The Trial Process(p. 227)
• 12 Judicial Processes(p. 229)
• 13 Safeguarding Witnesses(p. 247)
• 14 Identifi cation Evidence(p. 267)
• 15 Role of the Expert Witness(p. 287)
• Part IV Dealing with Offenders(p. 305)
• 16 Crime and Punishment: 'What Works'?(p. 307)
• 17 Risk Assessment and Offender Programmes(p. 327)
• 18 Interventions with Dangerous Offenders(p. 349)
• 19 Interventions for Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities(p. 369)
• 20 Interventions with Mentally Disordered Offenders(p. 391)
• 21 Offender Rehabilitation: Good Lives, Desistance and Risk Reduction(p. 407)
• Glossary(p. 425)
• Index(p. 433)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Graham Davies is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Leicester and an Honorary Professor of Forensic Psychology at the Universities of Birmingham and Coventry, UK. His research interests focus on the testimony of children and adults and the support of vulnerable witnesses at court, on which topics he has published 10 books and over 150 articles in scientific journals. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a former president of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition and of the European Association for Psychology and Law.

Anthony Beech is a Professor and Head of the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has authored over 140 peer-reviewed articles, 39 book chapters and 5 books in the area of forensic science/criminal justice. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and was the recipient of the Senior Award from the British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology for a significant lifetime contribution to Forensic Psychology in 2009. He also received the Significant Achievement award from the US-based Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) in 2009.