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Abstract
Introduction to Forensic Criminal Psychology 6th edition provides a clear, comprehensive and engaging coverage of the subject. With a continued emphasis on key empirical findings and the theory stemming from this research, this book will equip you with a deep and contextualised understanding of this fascinating area.
A range of pedagogical features will help you to quickly grasp the key concepts, appreciate the controversies and develop a practical understanding of the wide ranging topics encompassed by this ever evolving subject.
Key features
- Market leading text in this popular area
- Fully up-to-date with wide-ranging classic and contemporary research.
- Includes coverage of radically new ideas about forensic memory, delinquency, burglary, sex offender treatment, and more.
- Strong emphasis on theory and key empirical findings to encourage deeper understanding
- Important and relevant research studies from a UK and international perspective are explored in depth.
- ‘Key concepts’, ‘Forensic psychology in action’ and ‘Controversies’ provide students with a broader understanding of the subject
- A glossary of key terms provides explanations for easy reference
- Further reading suggestions at the end of each chapter help students to go beyond the text and discover key resources
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Title Page | iii | ||
| Copyright Page | iv | ||
| Dedication | v | ||
| Brief contents | vii | ||
| Contents | ix | ||
| List of figures, tables and boxes | xix | ||
| Preface | xxv | ||
| Author’s acknowledgements | xxvii | ||
| Publisher’s acknowledgements | xxviii | ||
| 1 What is forensic and criminal psychology? | 1 | ||
| Overview | 1 | ||
| Introduction | 2 | ||
| Researcher-practitioners | 5 | ||
| History of forensic and criminal psychology | 6 | ||
| Main points | 15 | ||
| Further reading | 15 | ||
| 2 The social context of crime | 16 | ||
| Overview | 16 | ||
| Introduction | 17 | ||
| The extent of crime | 20 | ||
| The extent of criminality | 20 | ||
| Crime rates compared internationally | 22 | ||
| Estimating the amount of crime | 24 | ||
| Life-time likelihood of being a crime victim | 24 | ||
| Conservative and radical interpretations | 25 | ||
| International variations in justice systems | 25 | ||
| Main points | 27 | ||
| Further reading | 27 | ||
| 3 Crime and the public | 28 | ||
| Overview | 28 | ||
| Introduction | 29 | ||
| Attitudes towards crime | 29 | ||
| Knowledge of crime | 31 | ||
| The nature of the fear of crime | 32 | ||
| What influences fear of crime? | 33 | ||
| Theories of fear of crime | 36 | ||
| Main points | 40 | ||
| Further reading | 40 | ||
| 4 Victims of crime | 41 | ||
| Overview | 41 | ||
| Introduction | 42 | ||
| Victim–offender overlap | 42 | ||
| Psychology and the victims of crime | 43 | ||
| PTSD and the victims of crime | 44 | ||
| Theories of PTSD | 47 | ||
| What leads to a greater likelihood of PTSD? | 49 | ||
| PTSD and re-victimisation | 51 | ||
| PTSD among offenders | 51 | ||
| Post-traumatic anger | 52 | ||
| Trivial crime and PTSD | 52 | ||
| Psychological help for victims | 53 | ||
| Victim decision making | 53 | ||
| Main points | 63 | ||
| Further reading | 63 | ||
| 5 Theories of crime | 64 | ||
| Overview | 64 | ||
| Introduction | 65 | ||
| Neuropsychology of offending | 67 | ||
| Intelligence and crime | 69 | ||
| Psychoanalysis and crime | 71 | ||
| Addiction to crime | 72 | ||
| Eysenck’s biosocial theory of crime | 74 | ||
| Social learning theory | 78 | ||
| The social construction of crime | 81 | ||
| Main points | 82 | ||
| Further reading | 82 | ||
| 6 Juvenile offenders and beyond | 83 | ||
| Overview | 83 | ||
| Introduction | 84 | ||
| International comparisons | 85 | ||
| Adolescents, crime and the family | 86 | ||
| Criminogenic factors in childhood | 88 | ||
| Continuity of childhood and adult antisocial behaviour | 90 | ||
| Biological factors in antisocial behaviour | 92 | ||
| Two types of delinquents | 96 | ||
| Specific explanations of antisocial behaviour in childhood | 99 | ||
| Social interventions to reduce delinquency | 106 | ||
| Diversion from the criminal justice system | 108 | ||
| Main points | 109 | ||
| Further reading | 109 | ||
| 7 Theft and other crimes against property | 110 | ||
| Overview | 110 | ||
| Introduction | 111 | ||
| Shoplifting | 111 | ||
| Burglary | 116 | ||
| Expertise among criminals | 122 | ||
| Arson and pyromania | 125 | ||
| Main points | 131 | ||
| Further reading | 131 | ||
| 8 Violent offenders | 132 | ||
| Overview | 132 | ||
| Introduction | 133 | ||
| Are violent criminals specialists? | 134 | ||
| Alcohol and violent crime | 135 | ||
| Anger and its management in violent crime | 137 | ||
| Media influences on violent crime | 140 | ||
| Theories of homicide | 145 | ||
| Domestic violence: forensic issues | 150 | ||
| Domestic violence by women against men | 151 | ||
| Stalking: what sort of crime? | 153 | ||
| Desistance from violent crime | 156 | ||
| Main points | 158 | ||
| Further reading | 158 | ||
| 9 Sexual offenders 1: rapists | 159 | ||
| Overview | 159 | ||
| Introduction | 160 | ||
| Frequency of rape | 160 | ||
| Youthful sex offenders | 162 | ||
| Sex offenders as specialists and generalists | 165 | ||
| Is rape a sexual orientation? | 169 | ||
| Anger and hostility and sex offending | 170 | ||
| Patterns in rape | 172 | ||
| The nature of rapists | 173 | ||
| Rape myths | 176 | ||
| Socio-cultural factors and sexual violence | 177 | ||
| More on the theory of rape | 181 | ||
| Synthesising explanations of sex offending | 183 | ||
| Offence Seriousness Escalation | 183 | ||
| Main points | 185 | ||
| Further reading | 185 | ||
| 10 Sexual offenders 2: paedophiles and child molestation | 186 | ||
| Overview | 186 | ||
| Introduction | 187 | ||
| Classifications of child molesters | 190 | ||
| How common is paedophilia? | 193 | ||
| The normal sex lives of paedophiles | 194 | ||
| The nature of paedophile offences | 195 | ||
| Theories of paedophilia | 196 | ||
| Denial and sex offending | 207 | ||
| Internet paedophile offenders | 210 | ||
| Main points | 213 | ||
| Further reading | 213 | ||
| 11 Police psychology | 214 | ||
| Overview | 214 | ||
| Introduction | 215 | ||
| Police culture | 215 | ||
| Explaining police bias | 219 | ||
| The cognitive interview | 222 | ||
| Other types of police interview | 229 | ||
| Forensic hypnosis | 231 | ||
| Police as eyewitnesses: how accurate are they? | 233 | ||
| The police caution | 234 | ||
| Use of lethal force | 237 | ||
| The impact of their work on the police | 238 | ||
| Main points | 244 | ||
| Further reading | 244 | ||
| 12 Terrorism and hostage-taking incidents | 245 | ||
| Overview | 245 | ||
| Introduction | 246 | ||
| The nature of terrorism | 246 | ||
| The consequences of terrorism | 249 | ||
| Is there a terrorist personality or psychopathology? | 251 | ||
| The problem created for risk assessment | 253 | ||
| What makes a terrorist? | 254 | ||
| Planning terrorist attacks | 257 | ||
| The end of terrorist organisations | 258 | ||
| Hostage barricade incidents | 259 | ||
| Hostage negotiation | 261 | ||
| Main points | 266 | ||
| Further reading | 266 | ||
| 13 Eyewitness testimony | 267 | ||
| Overview | 267 | ||
| Introduction | 268 | ||
| Eyewitness testimony as a central issue in forensic and criminal psychology | 268 | ||
| The accuracy of witness evidence | 269 | ||
| Later intrusions into eyewitness memory | 270 | ||
| Eyewitness evidence in court | 274 | ||
| Improving the validity of the line-up | 277 | ||
| The importance of eyewitness evidence research | 284 | ||
| Facial composites, age progression and identification | 289 | ||
| Main points | 292 | ||
| Further reading | 292 | ||
| 14 Profile analysis 1: FBI-style offender profiling | 293 | ||
| Overview | 293 | ||
| Introduction | 294 | ||
| The origins of offender profiling | 295 | ||
| The FBI profiling process | 296 | ||
| The methodology of the FBI profilers | 298 | ||
| The process of police investigation | 300 | ||
| An example of FBI profiling | 301 | ||
| What research says about profiles | 302 | ||
| Does profiling work? | 303 | ||
| Main points | 308 | ||
| Further reading | 309 | ||
| 15 Profile analysis 2: investigative psychology, statistical and geographical profiling | 310 | ||
| Overview | 310 | ||
| Introduction | 311 | ||
| Geographical profiling | 311 | ||
| Criminal Profiling – the research based approach | 314 | ||
| The homology issue and basic theory | 321 | ||
| Consistency in offending | 321 | ||
| Crime linkage | 324 | ||
| Profiling and personality | 326 | ||
| Conclusion | 328 | ||
| Main points | 329 | ||
| Further reading | 329 | ||
| 16 False allegations | 330 | ||
| Overview | 330 | ||
| Introduction | 331 | ||
| The problem of false allegations | 331 | ||
| Pathways to false allegations | 333 | ||
| The recovered memory/false memory debate | 335 | ||
| False claims of abuse and young children | 341 | ||
| The diagnosticity of signs of abuse | 346 | ||
| In what ways are genuine allegations different? | 348 | ||
| Main points | 349 | ||
| Further reading | 349 | ||
| 17 False and true confessions | 350 | ||
| Overview | 350 | ||
| Introduction | 351 | ||
| Methods of inducing confessions | 352 | ||
| Police interrogation and false-confessions | 354 | ||
| Demonstrating different types of false confession | 360 | ||
| Distinguishing between true and false confessions | 362 | ||
| Consequences of a false confession | 362 | ||
| Can evidence of a confession be disregarded? | 364 | ||
| Main points | 367 | ||
| Further reading | 368 | ||
| 18 Lies, lie detecting and credibility 1: the psychology of deception | 369 | ||
| Overview | 369 | ||
| Introduction | 370 | ||
| Ekman’s theory of lie detection | 370 | ||
| Are professional lie detectors really no better? | 373 | ||
| Reliance on invalid cues to deception | 376 | ||
| The quest for lie detection wizards | 377 | ||
| Improving lie detection hit rates – cognitive overload | 379 | ||
| What offenders say about lying | 381 | ||
| Strategic questioning | 381 | ||
| The Strategic Use of Evidence (SUE) technique | 382 | ||
| Verifiability approach to lie detection | 384 | ||
| Conclusion | 385 | ||
| Main points | 386 | ||
| Further reading | 386 | ||
| 19 Lies, lie detecting and credibility 2: the polygraph test and statement validity analysis | 387 | ||
| Overview | 387 | ||
| Introduction | 388 | ||
| The polygraph process | 388 | ||
| Problems with the polygraph | 390 | ||
| Studies of the validity of polygraphy | 391 | ||
| Polygraphy and the post-conviction sex offender | 395 | ||
| Alternatives to the polygraph | 397 | ||
| Statement validity analysis: criterion-based content analysis and the validity checklist | 398 | ||
| The validity of statement validity analysis | 402 | ||
| The status of criterion-based content analysis | 405 | ||
| Scientific content analysis | 405 | ||
| Main points | 407 | ||
| Further reading | 407 | ||
| 20 Children as witnesses | 408 | ||
| Overview | 408 | ||
| Introduction | 409 | ||
| What is difficult about forensic interviews with children? | 410 | ||
| The ground rules for interviews | 415 | ||
| Improving forensic questioning of children | 417 | ||
| Interviewing very young children | 418 | ||
| The problem of non-compliance with good questioning | 419 | ||
| The trade-off of accuracy against completeness | 420 | ||
| What do we know about interviewing children? | 420 | ||
| Is the research base complete? | 421 | ||
| Children and lying | 423 | ||
| Errors of omission and commission | 424 | ||
| Long-term influences of questioning | 426 | ||
| Children and line-up identifications | 427 | ||
| Facial fit construction | 428 | ||
| The role of the interviewer in child witness testimony | 428 | ||
| Main points | 432 | ||
| Further reading | 432 | ||
| 21 Mental disorders and crime | 433 | ||
| Overview | 433 | ||
| Introduction | 434 | ||
| Controlling for confounding factors | 435 | ||
| Violence in the mentally ill and national trends | 436 | ||
| Confounding by overlapping definitions | 437 | ||
| The confounding effects of medication | 437 | ||
| The clinical sample problem | 437 | ||
| Misclassification of the mentally ill and violence | 437 | ||
| Effects of general social trends | 438 | ||
| Mental illness and violent crime in community samples | 441 | ||
| Post-traumatic stress disorder and crime | 442 | ||
| Clinical aspects of violence | 443 | ||
| Who among the mentally ill is violent? | 446 | ||
| Mental illness and crime in general | 447 | ||
| Why should there be greater criminality among the mentally ill? | 447 | ||
| Violent victimisation of the mentally ill | 447 | ||
| The special issue of psychopaths and crime | 448 | ||
| Reconviction and mental illness | 450 | ||
| The police and mental illness | 451 | ||
| Main points | 452 | ||
| Further reading | 452 | ||
| 22 Mental, personality and intellectual problems in court | 453 | ||
| Overview | 453 | ||
| Introduction | 454 | ||
| Competence/capacity to stand trial | 455 | ||
| Psychopaths and mental illness | 460 | ||
| Post-traumatic stress disorder as a defence | 463 | ||
| Main points | 468 | ||
| Further reading | 468 | ||
| 23 Judges and lawyers | 469 | ||
| Overview | 469 | ||
| Introduction | 470 | ||
| The adversarial and inquisitorial types of trial | 470 | ||
| Are trial outcomes predictable? | 473 | ||
| The presentation of evidence in court | 474 | ||
| Underlying narrative of legal arguments | 475 | ||
| Other lawyer tactics | 478 | ||
| Is expert evidence understood in court? | 482 | ||
| Judgements | 483 | ||
| Decision making in court | 484 | ||
| Main points | 489 | ||
| Further reading | 489 | ||
| 24 Juries and decision making | 490 | ||
| Overview | 490 | ||
| Introduction | 491 | ||
| Scientific jury selection and litigation consultation | 491 | ||
| Simple improvements to aid jurors | 496 | ||
| The effect of jury size and decision rules | 500 | ||
| How real juries make decisions | 501 | ||
| General processes in juror decision making | 509 | ||
| Non-evidential evidence | 510 | ||
| Main points | 511 | ||
| Further reading | 511 | ||
| 25 Effective prison | 512 | ||
| Overview | 512 | ||
| Introduction | 513 | ||
| Prison as a therapeutic community | 513 | ||
| Violence in prison | 515 | ||
| A quick fix for prison aggression? | 517 | ||
| Suicide in prison | 518 | ||
| The effectiveness of prison | 521 | ||
| ‘Nothing works’ | 522 | ||
| Prison work works | 523 | ||
| The many dimensions of psychology in prison | 525 | ||
| Main points | 526 | ||
| Further reading | 526 | ||
| 26 Psychological treatments for prisoners and other offenders | 527 | ||
| Overview | 527 | ||
| Introduction | 528 | ||
| Sex offender therapy in prison | 528 | ||
| Does treatment work? | 531 | ||
| Treating violent criminals | 537 | ||
| The Aggression Training Programme (ART) | 538 | ||
| Other treatments for violent offending | 539 | ||
| Anger and violence | 540 | ||
| Manualisation | 541 | ||
| The high-risk offender problem | 541 | ||
| Main points | 547 | ||
| Further reading | 548 | ||
| 27 Assessment of risk, dangerousness and recidivism | 549 | ||
| Overview | 549 | ||
| Introduction | 550 | ||
| Risk assessment | 551 | ||
| The effectiveness of dynamic risk factors | 553 | ||
| Just what are dynamic risk factors? | 555 | ||
| Clinical judgement versus statistical assessment | 557 | ||
| Some structured clinical methods | 559 | ||
| Predictors may be specific rather than general | 561 | ||
| Statistical or actuarial prediction | 561 | ||
| Predictive factors | 564 | ||
| Issues in the assessment of risk and dangerousness | 570 | ||
| Offence paralleling behaviour | 573 | ||
| Protective factors in risk assessment | 576 | ||
| Main points | 577 | ||
| Further reading | 577 | ||
| Glossary | 578 | ||
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