Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: A Brief History of Clinical Forensic Psychology in Canada -- 1. What’s Wrong with Mr. Big? False Confessions -- 2. “What Life?” Eyewitness Testimony -- 3. Trial by Media: Pretrial Publicity -- 4. Fault Lines in the “Rock of Ages”: Trial by Jury -- 5. Privilege or Punishment? Jury Service, Secrecy, and Stress -- 6. Médecin sans conscience? Filicide by Father -- 7. Partners or Pawns: The Role of Women in Co-offending Violent Couples -- 8. Mad, Bad, and/or Sad? Homicide in Custody -- 9. Great White Sharks and Black Widow Spiders: Two Unlikely Serial Killers -- 10. April Is the Cruelest Month: Spree Killing in the Midst of a Pandemic -- Index.

Clinical forensic psychology is defined by the application of clinical psychology - assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and consultation - in legal contexts. The term captures the integration of clinical psychology as an applied professional discipline and forensic psychology as an experimental discipline. Cases in Clinical Forensic Psychologyoffers a series of case studies that allow readers to take an up-close and personal look at the criminal justice system in Canada. Clinical forensic psychologist Margo C.Watt examines the particulars of each case, including the biological, psychological, social, cultural, and legal factors. The book takes an evidence-based approach and highlights how the science of clinical forensic psychology informs all aspects of criminal cases: police investigative techniques, eyewitness testimony, pretrial publicity, jury selection and decision-making, forensic evaluations, psychological autopsies, mental health in corrections, and mo.re. Examining incidents ranging from false confessions to wrongful convictions to deaths in custody and the criminals who got away, Cases in Clinical Forensic Psychology questions how and why these events happened and considers what we can learn from them.