Introduction to Forensic Psychology : Court, Law Enforcement, and Correctional Practices.

Front Cover -- Introduction to Forensic Psychology: Court, Law Enforcement, and Correctional Practices -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Preface -- Defining Forensic Psychology - What it is and is not -- Acknowledgements -- Part I - Adult Forensics -- Court and the Legal System: Criminal Forensic Evaluation -- Key Issues -- Chapter 1 - Adult Forensic Evaluation -- Overview -- Competency to Stand Trial -- Psychological Tests and Forensic Assessment Instruments in the Courtroom -- Mental State at the Time of the Offense: Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity and Guilty But Mentally Ill Verdicts -- Violence Risk Assessment -- Competency Restoration and Sanity Acquittees: The Maximum-Security Forensic Hospital -- Court and the Legal System: Criminal Forensic Consultation -- Key Issues -- Chapter 2 - Adult Forensic Consultation -- Overview -- Jury Selection -- The Forensic Psychologist as Expert Witness -- Intellectual Disability and Criminal Defendants: Implications for Capital Offenses and the Death Penalty -- Forensic Consultants in Criminal Mitigation -- Court and the Legal System: Civil Forensics -- Key Issues -- Chapter 3 - Civil Forensics -- Overview -- Defining Mental Illness -- Right to Refuse Treatment -- Evaluating Psychiatric Work-Related Disability -- Duty to Inform v. Client Confidentiality -- Victim-Offender Mediation -- Police and Law Enforcement -- Key Issues -- Chapter 4 - Adult Issues in Policing -- Overview -- Adult Criminal Profiling -- Use of Force -- Suicide by Cop -- Coerced Confessions -- The Police Personality and Pre-Employment Screenings -- Critical Incidents Debriefing -- Corrections and Prison Practices -- Key Issues -- Chapter 5 - Adult Issues in Corrections/Correctional Psychology -- Overview -- Offender's Right to Refuse Treatment -- Incarcerating and Executing the Mentally Ill.

Suicide Risk, Screening, and Crisis Intervention for Inmates -- Sex Offender Treatment -- Maintaining Boundaries with an Inmate Population -- Prison Violence -- Part II - Juvenile Forensics -- Courts and the Legal System: Delinquent Conduct -- Key Issues -- Chapter 6 - Juvenile/Family Forensics -- Overview -- Defining the Age of Criminal Responsibility -- Cyberbullying -- Psychology of School Violence -- Sentencing: Psychology of Juvenile Rehabilitation -- Court and the Legal System: Civil Forensics -- Key Issues -- Chapter 7 - Juvenile/Family Forensics -- Overview -- Family Law and Emotional Rights -- Best Interests of the Child Doctrine -- The Role of Psychologists in Custody Evaluations -- Children/Juveniles and the Reliability of their Courtroom Testimony -- Police and Corrections Practices -- Key Issues -- Chapter 8 - Juvenile Issues in Policing and Correctional Psychology -- Overview -- Dealing with Troubled Youths at School and in the Community -- Policing Juvenile Gangs -- Adolescent Female Prostitutes: Criminals or Victims? -- Juveniles in Adult Jails -- Juveniles on Death Row -- Juvenile Boot Camps -- Suicide Among Incarcerated Juveniles -- Part III - Family Forensics -- Court and the Legal System: Criminal Forensics -- Key Issues -- Chapter 9 - Violence in the Family -- Overview -- Family Violence: Homicide -- Maternal Filicide: Mothers who Kill their Children -- Domestic Violence -- Family Trauma and the Cycle of Crime -- Court and the Legal System: Civil Forensics -- Key Issues -- Chapter 10 - Family Forensics -- Overview -- Impact of Mental Health Law Doctrines on Families: Paternalism and Parens Patriae -- Termination of Parental Rights -- Gay/Lesbian Rights and Definitions of the Family -- Police and Law Enforcement -- Key Issues -- Chapter 11 - Family/Community Issues in Policing -- Overview.

Police as Mediators in Domestic Disputes -- Police Stress -- Police and the Mentally Ill -- Police Training: Communication Skills and Conflict Resolution -- The Psychology of Terrorism: Motivations, Implications, and Healing -- Corrections and Prison Practices -- Key Issues -- Chapter 12 - Family/Community Issues in Corrections/Correctional Psychology -- Overview -- Psychological Stress and Correctional Work -- Intellectually Disabled Inmates -- Society's Reaction to Sex Offenders -- Women Working in Male Prisons -- "Make Believe" Families -- Women In Prison and Mother-Child Separation -- Community Reentry Programs and Family Reunification -- References -- Cases -- Index.

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