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Thinking of a career that indulges your CSI fantasies? Want to understand the psychology of crime? Whether studying it for the first time or an interested spectator, Forensic Psychology For Dummies gives you all the essentials for understanding this exciting field, plus fascinating case examples from around the world. Inside you'll find out why people commit crime, how psychology helps in the investigative process (including "offender profiling" and interviewing suspects), the ways psychologists work with criminals behind bars - and how you too can become a forensic psychologist.
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- Höfundar: David Canter, Ian Rankin
- Útgáfa:1
- Útgáfudagur: 2012-05-07
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- Format:Page Fidelity
- ISBN 13: 9781119977360
- Print ISBN: 9781119976240
- ISBN 10: 1119977363
Efnisyfirlit
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Author’s Acknowledgements
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Conventions Used in This Book
- What You’re Not to Read
- Foolish Assumptions
- How This Book Is Organised
- Icons Used in This Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part I: Nailing Forensic Psychology: A Moving Target
- Chapter 1: Discovering the Truth about Forensic Psychology
- Grasping What Forensic Psychology Is Not
- Recognising What Forensic Psychology Is
- Examining the Building Blocks of Forensic Psychology
- Working with Others: People and Places That Forensic Psychologists Encounter
- Chapter 2: Exploring the World of the Criminal
- Defining Criminals and Crimes
- Committing a Crime: What Leads Someone to Break the Law
- Investigating Mental Disorder and Crime
- Understanding Why Not Everyone Is a Criminal
- Chapter 3: Providing Expert Evidence: Forensic Psychology and the Law
- Understanding That Legal Systems Vary Worldwide
- Using Your Experience and Knowledge: What Is an Expert Witness?
- Keeping Your Lips Sealed: What an Expert Can’t Comment On
- Detailing the Dangers: Ensuring Trial by Jury and not Trial by Expert
- Chapter 1: Discovering the Truth about Forensic Psychology
- Chapter 4: Interviewing Witnesses and Victims
- Understanding the Nature of Interviews: Why Are You Asking Me That?
- Remembering That Memory Can Mislead
- Assisting Witnesses and Victims to Remember
- Looking Into Eyewitness Testimony
- Chapter 5: Exposing Liars and Detecting Deception
- Understanding the Nature of Lying
- Detecting Lies: Some Attempted Procedures
- Ways in Which Lying Is Used to Commit Crime
- Interviewing Suspects to Sort Truth from Lies
- Examining Documents to Help Solve Crimes
- Chapter 6: Profiling Offenders and Distinguishing the Types of Crimes They Commit
- Investigating ‘Offender Profiling’
- Delving Into Investigative Psychology
- Distinguishing between Crimes
- Questioning Whether This Chapter Should be Published
- Chapter 7: Understanding Victims of Crime and Their Experiences
- Suffering at the Hands of Criminals: Who Become Victims of Crime?
- Understanding the Effects of Crimes on Victims
- Assessing the Psychological Effects of a Crime on a Victim
- Chapter 8: Preventing Crime: Problems, Processes and Perseverance
- Understanding the Difficulties of Preventing Crime
- Examining Ways to Prevent (or at Least Combat) Crime
- Using Psychological Understanding to Combat Specific Types of Crime
- Chapter 9: Measuring, Testing and Assessing the Psychology of Offenders
- Introducing Psychological Measurement
- Getting to Grips with Psychological Measurement Methods
- Identifying the Different Aspects That Measurement Methods Assess
- Testing the Tests
- Creating and Giving Psychological Tests
- Chapter 10: Diagnosing Evil: Measuring the Criminal Mind
- Uncovering Possible Malingering
- Exploring Cognitive Distortions, Justifications and Sexual Deviance
- Examining the Inability to Relate: Psychopathy
- Assessing the Risk of Future Offending
- Chapter 11: Giving Guidance in Legal Proceedings
- Assessing Insanity Pleas in Court
- Examining Issues of Competency
- Getting Controversial: Examining Syndromes in Court
- Making Judgements for Risk Assessment
- Psychological Autopsy
- Providing Expert Testimony in Civil Proceedings
- Detailing a Forensic Psychologist’s Report
- Chapter 12: Making Sense in Court: Psychological Aspects of the Legal Processes
- Uncovering Psychology in the Courts
- Delving Into Jury Psychology
- Cross-Examining the Psychology of Cross-Examination
- Getting the Desired Jury: How Psychologists Can Help
- Chapter 13: Intervening to Rehabilitate Offenders
- Examining the Challenges of Imprisonment
- Investigating Some Approaches to Treatment
- Acknowledging the Challenges to Treatment
- Chapter 14: Dealing with Violence
- Investigating Two Different Sorts of Violence
- Assessing the Risk of Future Violence
- Considering Some Approaches to Treatment
- Managing Stalking
- Chapter 15: Treating Sexual Offenders
- Defining Sexual Offences and Offenders
- Assessing Sexual Offenders
- Managing and Helping the Sex Offender
- Dealing with Child Sexual Abuse in the Family
- Chapter 16: Working with Juvenile Offenders
- Understanding the Cycle of Youth Crime
- Recognising Protective Factors: The Good News
- Keeping Things in the Family: The Central Importance of the Home
- Going Back to School: Investigating School Shootings
- Chapter 17: Ten Professional Requirements for Forensic Psychologists
- Providing Evidence for the Court, Not the Client
- Getting Ethical Approval for Research
- Following Codes of Practice
- Avoiding the Ultimate Question
- Working Within Your Area of Competence
- Submitting to Peer Review
- Having a Duty of Care
- Respecting Confidentiality
- Professional Humility
- Telling the Truth
- Chapter 18: Ten Stages in Becoming a Professional Forensic Psychologist
- Thinking about the Profession While at School
- Studying at University
- Getting Direct Work Experience
- Gaining a Master’s Qualification
- Becoming an Intern
- Being Supervised
- Striving for a Doctorate
- Deciding to Specialise
- Flying Solo
- Attaining Guru-Like Status
- Chapter 19: Ten Emerging Areas of Forensic Psychology
- Dealing with Human Rights Cases
- Rebutting Pseudo-Science
- Providing Evidence in Mitigation
- Helping to Combat Workplace Violence and Harassment
- Working on Corporate Liability
- Analysing Probity
- Committing People to Institutions
- Ending One’s Life
- Assessing the Impact of Child Abuse
- Linking Criminal Cases
- Chapter 20: Ten Cases in Which Forensic Psychology Was Crucial
- Considering the Effects of Media Accounts
- Determining Whether a Convicted Murderer Is Telling the Truth
- Recreating Events to Test a Claim’s Validity
- Forcing Drugs to Make a Defendant Fit to Stand Trial
- Investigating a Honey-Trap Gone Wrong
- Profiling Howard Hughes
- Evaluating a Suicide Note
- Researching False Confessions
- Examining the Role of Implicit Influence in the Lockerbie Bomber Case
- Identifying Ritual Murders in South Africa
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