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Introduction to Forensic Psychology: Issues and Controversies in Crime and Justice

by: Arrigo, Bruce A.

Introduction to Forensic Psychology: Issues and Controversies in Crime and Justice

by: Arrigo, Bruce A.

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9780120643509
ISBN 10:
0120643502
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 01/01/2000
Publisher: ACADEMIC PRESS INC
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California School of Professional Psychology, Fresno, CA. Discusses how psychologists impact the research, practice, and policy of crime, law, and justice. For students and practitioners. Topics include adult, juvenile, family, and civil components of forensic psychology. Discusses incarceration of the mentally ill, police as mediators, and sex offender treatment.

About the Author

Acknowledgments

xiii

Preface

PART I Police and Law Enforcement

Adult Forensics

Overview

(1)

Power, Authority, and Discretionary Decision Making

(4)

Use of Force

(4)

Evidence Tampering

(5)

Adult Criminal Profiling

(6)

Coerced Confessions

(8)

Juvenile Forensics

Overview

(1)

Dealing with Troubled Youths

(7)

Policing Juvenile Gangs

(4)

Juveniles' Attitudes toward the Police

(5)

Adolescent Female Prostitutes: Criminals or Victims?

(7)

Civil Forensics

Overview

(1)

Public Attitudes toward Police

(5)

Exploring the Police Personality

(7)

Police and the Mentally III

(4)

Community Policing: Trendy or Effective?

(4)

Police Training: Communication Skills and Conflict Resolution

(6)

Policing Minority Populations

(7)

Family Forensics

Overview

(1)

Police as Mediators in Domestic Disputes

(5)

Police Stress

(8)

Police Work and Family Stress

103

(5)

Homosexual Police Officers

108

(7)

PART II Court and the Legal System

Adult Forensics

Overview

115

(2)

Plea Bargaining

117

(4)

Competency to Stand Trial

121

(3)

Jury Selection

124

(3)

Psychological Tests and Forensic Assessment Instruments in the Courtroom

127

(5)

Risk Assessment

132

(4)

Forensic Verdicts or Psychiatric Justice: NGRI and GBMI

136

(5)

Juvenile Forensics

Overview

141

(1)

Defining the Age of Criminal Responsibility

142

(6)

Children/Juveniles and the Reliability of Their Courtroom Testimony

148

(4)

Best Interests of the Child Doctrine

152

(4)

Sentencing: Psychology of Juvenile Rehabilitation

156

(5)

Civil Forensics

Overview

161

(2)

Defining Mental Illness

163

(5)

Right of Refuse Treatment

168

(4)

Least Restrictive Alternative Doctrine

172

(5)

Duty to Inform vs Client Confidentiality

177

(4)

Victim Compensation Programs

181

(5)

Victim-Offender Mediation

186

(9)

Family Forensics

Overview

195

(2)

Family Trauma and the Cycle of Crime

197

(3)

Family Violence: Homicide

200

(6)

Impact of Mental Health Law Doctrines on Families: Paternalism and Parens Patriae

206

(4)

Family Law and Emotional Rights

210

(7)

Domestic Violence

217

(4)

Gay/Lesbian Rights and Definitions of the Family

221

(8)

PART III Corrections and Prison Practices

Adult Forensics

Overview

229

(2)

Offender's Right to Refuse Treatment

231

(4)

Incarcerating and Executing the Mentally III

235

(4)

Sex-Offender Treatment

239

(4)

Electronic Monitoring: Technology and Managing Offenders

243

(5)

Prison Violence

248

(6)

Underground Economy of Prison

254

(7)

Juvenile Forensics

Overview

261

(1)

Juveniles in Adult Jails

262

(4)

Juveniles on Death Row

266

(3)

Juvenile Boot Camp

269

(4)

Suicide among Incarcerated Juveniles

273

(4)

Incarceration of Status Offenders

277

(6)

Civic Forensics

Overview

283

(1)

Psychological Stress and Correctional Work

284

(5)

Community Corrections

289

(6)

Mentally Disabled Inmates

295

(4)

Society's Reaction to Sex Offenders

299

(5)

Women Working in Male Prisons

304

(5)

Inmate Sexuality

309

(6)

Family Forensics

Overview

315

(1)

``Make-Believe'' Families

316

(5)

Pregnant Women in Prison

321

(5)

Female Prisoners and Mother-Child Separation

326

(5)

Other Family Members of Inmates

331

(3)

Female Inmates: Mothers in Prison

334

(5)

References

339

(22)

Index

361

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