Introduction to forensic and criminal psychology
By: Dennis Howitt.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9781405874465
Subjects: Criminal psychology; Forensic psychology
Table of contents: title: What is forensic and criminal psychology?; title: The social context of crime; title: Crime and the public; title: Victims of crime; title: Theories of crime; title: Juvenile offenders and beyond; title: Theft and other crimes against property; title: Violent offenders; title: Sexual offenders 1 : rapists; title: Sexual offenders 2 : paedophiles and child molestation; title: Police psychology; title: Terrorism and hostage-taking incidents; title: Eyewitness testimony; title: Profile analysis 1 : FBI-style offender profiling; title: Profile analysis 2 : investigative psychology and statistical profiling; title: False allegations; title: False confessions; title: Lies, lie detecting and credibility : psychological approaches to lie detection, polygraphy and statement validity analysis; title: Children as witnesses; title: Mental illness and crime; title: Mental, personality and intellectual problems in court; title: Judges and lawyers; title: Juries and decision making; title: Effective prison; title: Assessment of ricividism.