New Books in Mental Health

April-August 2012

Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry

  1. Crime and Crime Reduction

    The importance of group processes

    Edited by Jane L. Wood, Theresa A. Gannon

    The problems associated with groups that commit crime are well known and notoriously complex. However, there are many questions that we still cannot answer with certainty. This book seeks to deepen understanding of the group processes involved in crime and the treatment of offenders’ thoughts and...

    Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge

  2. 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

  3. Protecting the Public?

    Executive Discretion and the Release of Mentally Disordered Offenders

    By Tessa Boyd-Caine

    The separation of powers and independent, judicial decision-making are generally accepted as hallmarks of the rule of law in democratic societies. Yet the exercise of executive discretion remains an important aspect of criminal justice in many areas. Protecting the Public? explores the tension...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge

  4. 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