| Description |
xi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Educational and training models in forensic psychology -- Police psychology : then, now, and beyond -- Science and pseudoscience in law enforcement : a user-friendly primer -- Effective policing : understanding how polygraph tests work and are used -- The criminal profiling illusion : what's behind the smoke and mirrors? -- Juvenile offenders' miranda rights comprehension and self-reported likelihood of offering false confessions -- Reducing misconceptions and false beliefs in police and criminal psychology -- Drugs and sexual assault : a review -- Is it stalking? : perceptions of stalking among college undergraduates -- Psychopathy : a clinical construct whose time has come -- Child sexual molestation : research issues -- What biosocial criminology offers criminology -- Confession evidence : commonsense myths and misconceptions -- Hypnosis and the law : examining the stereotypes -- Assessing allegations of domestic violence in child custody evaluations -- Three types of skills for effective forensic psychological assessments -- Developmentally sensitive forensic interviewing of preschool children : some guidelines drawn from basic psychological research -- A 10-year update of "review and critique of empirical studies of rape avoidance" -- Reporting sexual victimization to the police and others : results from a national-level study of college women -- Patterns of anti-gay violence : an analysis of incident characteristics and victim reporting -- Offenders' family members' responses to capital crimes : the need for restorative justice initiatives -- A national survey of correctional psychologists -- The rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders : the current landscape and some future directions for correctional psychology -- What is correctional about clinical practice in corrections? -- The challenges of mentally ill female offenders in prison -- Multisystemic therapy for antisocial juveniles : suggestions for improvement |
| Summary |
Intended as supplementary readings for an undergraduate course in criminology, this collection of articles highlights current scholarship in psychology as it relates to criminal justice. The work is divided into sections covering police and investigative psychology, criminal and delinquent behavior, legal psychology, victimology and victim services and correctional psychology. Individual articles address such topics as science and pseudo-science in law enforcement, psychopathy and pathological behaviors, confession evidence, issues in victim reporting of sexual and bias crimes and challenges for mentally ill correctional inmates. All of the entries are from recently published criminology and psychology periodicals |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
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Previous ed.: 2008 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Correctional psychology.
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Criminal investigation -- Psychological aspects.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Psychological aspects.
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Criminal psychology.
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Forensic psychology.
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Police psychology.
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| Author |
Bartol, Anne M., editor of compilation
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Bartol, Curt R., 1940- editor of compilation
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| LC no. |
2010053715 |
| ISBN |
1412992443 (paperback) |
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9781412992442 |
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