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Dictionary of forensic psychology
- Editors:
- TOWL Graham, et al, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Willan
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 232p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cullompton
This dictionary is part of a new series of dictionaries covering key aspects of criminal justice and the criminal justice system. Its entries reflect a range of perspectives and should be of interest to both students and practitioners. The appendix comprises a list of abbreviations used in the dictionary and many others commonly found in forensic literature and documentation.
A practical guide to forensic psychiatry
- Editors:
- WELLDON Estela, VAN VELSEN Cleo
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 319p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of essays concerned with the offender patient. Shows the range of problems and personalities which forensic psychotherapists face when assessing and treating patients, and the legal questions involved in the process. Increasing concern with the treatment and management of offenders with mental health problems has lead to greater interest in understanding why they behave as they do. Examines patients from a variety of backgrounds and with differing crimes, including sexual offenders, fraudsters, murderers, arsonists, addicts and many others.
A typology of mentally disordered firesetters
- Authors:
- HARRIS Grant T., RICE Marnie E.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 11(3), September 1996, pp.351-363.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Cluster analytic techniques were used to develop a typology of mentally disordered male firesetters in the United States of America and the fires they set. Childhood variables, adult correctional and psychiatric variables, and characteristics of their index fires were used to assign the men to one of four subtypes: psychotics, underassertives, multi-firesetters, and criminals. The subtypes differed on many clinical characteristics and in their likelihood of firesetting, violent, and nonviolent recidivism. Implications for risk prediction and treatment are discussed.
Fitness to be interviewed and psychological vulnerability: the views of doctors, lawyers and police officers
- Authors:
- GUDJONSSON Gisli H., HAYES D. Gwilym, ROWLANDS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 11(1), April 2000, pp.74-92.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
Forensic medical examiners, psychiatrists and clinical psychologists are increasingly being asked to evaluate police detainees' fitness for interview. This study examines the psychological factors that are considered important by the relevant professional groups in this evaluation process. Consultant psychiatrists, forensic medical examiners, lawyers and police officers rated the importance of detainees' psychological vulnerabilities in terms of fitness for interview. Those most commonly identified were: confusion and disorientation, withdrawing from heroin, communication problems, a paranoid belief, and not seeming to understand simple questions.
An overview of stalking
- Author:
- BATES Adrian
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Forensic Practice, 1(4), December 1999, pp.33-36.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Stalking as a criminal offence has developed a higher profile in recent years although it is clearly not a new phenomenon. This article discusses types of stalker and the methods they employ.
Mad or bad: child-killers, gender and the courts
- Author:
- WILCZYNSKI Ania
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Criminology, 37(3), Summer 1997, pp.419-436.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Reports some of the findings of a research project on child-killing by parents or parent-substitutes, drawing on a sample of case files from the Director of Public Prosecutions in London from 1984, and a sample of fatal and non-fatal cases reported in the Criminal Appeal Reports and Criminal Appeal Reports (Sentencing) between 1980-90. It was found that the criminal justice system responds very differently to men and women who kill their children at all stages of the legal process, in accordance with the view that 'men are bad and normal, women are mad and abnormal. The paper concludes by suggesting ways to remedy this, drawing on more general criminological debates about sex and sentencing.
Surviving stalking
- Author:
- PATHE Michele
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 166p.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
The book is a practical survival manual for victims of stalking and related crimes. It offers practical advice to victims and also gives guidance through each stage of the criminal justice processes in America, Britain and Australia. Using case descriptions, Pathe describes the traumatic effects of stalking, the course of these symptoms, and how best to access psychological care and support. It provides a contemporary account of victim types, stalker types, stalkers' motives, strategies to prevent and overcome stalking, and a list of the resources available to victims of stalking.
Evaluation of an offending behaviour programme with a mentally disordered offender population
- Authors:
- DONNELLY John P, SCOTT Moira F.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Forensic Practice, 1(4), December 1999, pp.25-32.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article evaluates a programme to address offending and antisocial behaviours from a cognitive/problem-solving angle. Recommendations for future practice are outlined.
When will they ever work? The importance of employment
- Author:
- FOSTER Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 10(2), September 1999, pp.245-248.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
Paid work holds a central place in the lives of most people of working age, not only as a source of income, but also for the psychological satisfactions and social supports work can provide. The absence of work is just as significant for those people who are unemployed. This article is a brief discussion of the psychological effects of unemployment.
Freeing the imprisoned mind
- Author:
- KITCHINER Neil
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 2(12), August 1999, pp.420-424.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Unlike traditional prisons, HMP Parc purchases all its health care services from Bridgend NHS Trust. The prison provides a model for the new arrangements for the provision of health services in prison outlined in the government policy document 'The Future Organisation of Prison Health Care'. The author focuses on therapeutic interventions received by offenders coming to terms with trauma relating to their crime.