Criminal Behaviour and Forensic Psychology Books

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11. Investigating Missing Children Cases

    A Guide for First Responders and Investigators

    By Donald F. Sprague

    Time is an abducted child’s worst enemy. Seventy-four percent of abducted children who are murdered are killed within three hours of their abduction. It takes, on the average, two hours for a parent to report a child missing. This gives responders only one hour to get an investigation up and...

    Published September 17th 2012 by CRC Press
12. Foundations of Offender Rehabilitation

    By Sharon Casey, Andrew Day, Jim Vess, Tony Ward

    The past three decades has seen dramatic changes in the way in which the criminal justice system responds to those who break the law. The old claim in the field of correctional psychology that "nothing works" has strongly been refuted in the face of evidence from rehabilitation programmes that do...

    Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
13. Managing Clinical Risk

    A Guide to Effective Practice

    Edited by Caroline Logan, Lorraine Johnstone

    Series: Issues in Forensic Psychology

    Violence directed towards others and violence directed towards oneself cause an immense amount of physical and psychological damage – to the harmed and the harmful person alike, to their families, and to the public at large. Managing clinical risk is an authoritative manual for practitioners...

    Published August 8th 2012 by Willan
14. Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control?

    Theory, Policy and Practice Explored

    Edited by Jo Brayford, Francis Cowe, John Deering

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

    Sex offending, and in particular child sex offending, is a complex area for policy makers, theorists and practitioners. A focus on punishment has reinforced sex offending as a problem that is essentially ‘other’ to society and discourages engagement with the real scale and scope of sexual offending...

    Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge
15. Secure Recovery

    Approaches to Recovery in Forensic Mental Health Settings

    Edited by Gerard Drennan, Deborah Alred

    Series: Issues in Forensic Psychology

    Secure Recovery is the first text to tackle the challenge of recovery-oriented mental health care in forensic services and prison-based therapeutic communities in the UK. Recovery as an emergent paradigm in the field of mental health presents a challenge to all services to embrace a new clinical...

    Published June 6th 2012 by Willan
16. Police in the Age of Improvement

    By David Barrie

    The study of police history in Scotland has largely been neglected. Little is known about the Scottish police's origins, development and character despite growing interest in the machinery of law enforcement in other parts of the United Kingdom. This book seeks to remedy this deficiency. Based on...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
17. Understanding and Preventing Online Sexual Exploitation of Children

    Edited by Ethel Quayle, Kurt Ribisl

    Over the last decade there has been dramatically increased interest in the ways that technology has been used in the abuse and exploitation of children, due in part to increasing numbers of convictions for child pornography-related offenses. Opinion swings between those who feel that there is a...

    Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
18. Sexual Predators Amongst Us

    By Ronald A. Rufo

    It is imperative that educators, parents, and potential victims be aware of sexual predators, the danger they pose in our society, and the resources available to help prevent this growing epidemic. Written from a police perspective, Sexual Predators Amongst Us examines the problem of sexual...

    Published December 6th 2011 by CRC Press
19. The Prisoner

    Edited by Ben Crewe, Jamie Bennett

    Little of what we know about prison comes from the mouths of prisoners, and very few academic accounts of prison life manage to convey some of its most profound and important features: its daily pressures and frustrations, the culture of the wings and landings, and the relationships which shape the...

    Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
20. Research in Practice for Forensic Professionals

    Edited by Kerry Sheldon, Jason Davies, Kevin Howells

    Series: Issues in Forensic Psychology

    This book explores applied research methods used in forensic settings – prisons, the probation service, courts and forensic mental health establishments – and provides a comprehensive 'how-to' guide for forensic practitioners and researchers.It provides practitioners and researchers with grounding...

    Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge