Introduction to Forensic Psychology

by Arrigo; Shipley

• ISBN13: 9780120643516
• ISBN10: 0120643510
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-10
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

Introduction to Forensic Psychology, Second Edition is an original approach to understanding how psychologists impact the research, practice, and policy of crime, law, and justice. Divided into four sections on criminal forensics, civil forensics, policing and law enforcement, and corrections and prison practices, the text examines police, court, and correctional aspects of forensic psychology. Each of the twelve chapters are organized around relevant case illustrations, include comprehensive literature reviews, and discuss policy implications and avenues of future research. Each chapter additionally incorporates research on race, gender, and class, as well as including a practice update, highlighting a timely issue or controversy. The text thoughtfully explores a wide range of adult, juvenile, family, and community themes of interest to students, practitioners, and administrators. New to the Second Edition is a chapter on international criminal forensic psychology, and sections on assessing psychiatric work-related disability, termination of parental rights, counseling prison populations, malingering, crisis intervention in prisons/jails, and child custody evaluations. Suitable as a primary text for courses on psychology and criminal justice, the book may also serve as a reference tool for practicing forensic psychologists. *Provides an integrative approach provides a more comprehensive understanding of the relevant material * Focus on police, court and corrections introduces students to how psychologists are important to the criminal justice system * Presents "cutting edge" issues that prepares students to interpret those issues at the forefront of the field * Presents a breadth of material accessible to students from which they can consider more intelligently their own career options * Case illustrations throughout points to the practical need to understand the material * Incorporates over 35% new material

Table of Contents

About the Authors	xiii
Preface for the First Edition	xvii
Preface for the Second Edition	xxiii
PART I Courts and the Legal System: Criminal Forensics
Adult Forensics
Overview	3	(2)
Competency to Stand Trial	5	(6)
Jury Selection	11	(4)
Psychological Tests and Forensic Assessment Instruments in the Courtroom	15	(7)
Risk Assessment	22	(6)
Forensic Verdicts or Psychiatric Justice: Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity and Guilty but Mentally Ill	28	(8)
The Forensic Psychologist as Expert Witness	36	(7)
The Maximum-Security Forensic Hospital	43	(10)
Juvenile/Family Forensics
Overview	53	(2)
Defining the Age of Criminal Responsibility	55	(7)
Children/Juveniles and the Reliability of their Courtroom Testimony	62	(6)
Sentencing: Psychology of Juvenile Rehabilitation	68	(6)
Domestic Violence	74	(6)
Family Violence: Homicide	80	(11)
International Criminal Forensics
Overview	91	(5)
The Psychology of Terrorism: Motivations, Implications, and Healing	96	(13)
The Insanity Defense and Competency to Stand Trial	109	(12)
Violence Risk Assessment and Mentally Disordered Offenders	121	(16)
PART II Courts and the Legal System: Civil Forensics
Civil Forensics
Overview	137	(2)
Defining Mental Illness	139	(7)
Right to Refuse Treatment	146	(6)
Least Restrictive Alternative Doctrine	152	(6)
Evaluating Psychiatric Work-Related Disability	158	(7)
Duty to Inform Versus Client Confidentiality	165	(6)
Victim-Offender Mediation	171	(12)
Juvenile/Family Forensics
Overview	183	(2)
Family Law and Emotional Rights	185	(11)
Best Interests of the Child Doctrine	196	(6)
The Role of Psychologists in Custody Evaluations	202	(13)
Family Forensics
Overview	215	(1)
Impact of Mental Health Law Doctrines on Families: Paternalism and Parens Patriae	216	(5)
Family Trauma and the Cycle of Crime	221	(6)
Termination of Parental Rights	227	(9)
Gay/Lesbian Rights and Definitions of the Family	236	(11)
PART III Police and Law Enforcement
Adult Issues in Policing
Overview	247	(1)
Adult Criminal Profiling	248	(9)
Use of Force	257	(5)
Coerced Confessions	262	(8)
The Police Personality and Pre-Employment Screenings	270	(8)
Policing Minority Populations	278	(11)
Juvenile Issues in Policing/Psychology
Overview	289	(1)
Dealing with Troubled Youths at School and in the Community	290	(10)
Policing Juvenile Gangs	300	(7)
Juveniles' Attitudes Toward the Police	307	(7)
Adolescent Female Prostitutes: Criminals or Victims?	314	(9)
Family/Community Issues in Policing
Overview	323	(2)
Police as Mediators in Domestic Disputes	325	(6)
Police Stress	331	(10)
Police Work and Family Stress	341	(6)
Police and the Mentally Ill	347	(5)
Community Policing: Trendy or Effective?	352	(7)
Police Training: Communication Skills and Conflict Resolution	359	(10)
PART IV Corrections and Prison Practices
Adult Issues in Corrections/Correctional Psychology
Overview	369	(2)
An Offender's Right to Refuse Treatment	371	(5)
Incarcerating and Executing the Mentally Ill	376	(8)
Suicide Risk, Screening, and Crisis Intervention for Inmates	384	(7)
Sex-Offender Treatment	391	(6)
Prison Violence	397	(8)
Inmate Sexuality	405	(12)
Juvenile Issues in Corrections
Overview	417	(2)
Juveniles in Adult Jails	419	(4)
Juveniles on Death Row	423	(6)
Juvenile Boot Camp	429	(5)
Suicide Among Incarcerated Juveniles	434	(5)
Incarceration of Status Offenders	439	(8)
Family/Community Issues in Corrections/Correctional Psychology
Overview	447	(2)
Psychological Stress and Correctional Work	449	(6)
Intellectually Disabled Inmates	455	(7)
Society's Reaction to Sex Offenders	462	(7)
Women Working in Male Prisons	469	(8)
Make-Believe Families	477	(5)
Women in Prison and Mother-Child Separation	482	(13)
References	495	(56)
Index	551