Arrigo Bruce A. Introduction to Forensic Psychology

Textbook. Ģpj ACADEMIC PRESS. 2003. 386 p. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 99-63961. ISBN: 0-12-064350-2. Printed in the USA.
Organization of the BookThe book is divided into three broad sections: Police and Law Enforcement, Court and the Legal System, and Corrections and Prison Practices.Each of the three broad sections to the text includes four subsections, creating a total of 12 chapters. These subsections include: Adult Forensics, Juvenile Forensics, Civil Forensics, and Family Forensics.Within each subsection of a given chapter, a number of selected issues or controversies are presented. Collectively, these topics do not exhaustively canvass the depth of a particular chapter’s thematic possibilities.The core organizing theme for the selection of entries deliberately focused on capturing the breadth and variety of topics within a subspecialty domain of forensic psychology.Over 60 individual entries (i.e., topics) are found in Introduction to Forensic Psychology: Issues and Controversies in Crime and Justice. Most chapters examine between four and six topics.
Each section or entry of the textbook follows a structured format. The format includes a brief introduction, a case illustration, a review of the literature, an assessment of policy implications, and suggestions for future research. Most entries are between 4 and 6 p. long.