Jessica Kingsley, 2012. — 280 p. People who use forensic mental health services are defined by the fact that they have violated boundaries, often in many ways. For clinicians employed to work therapeutically with this client group however, the capacity to initiate and maintain boundaries is critical to safety as well as to good treatment outcomes. This book provides a thorough...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 295 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-48291-7. Notes on Contributors Martin A. Andresen and Graham Farrell Introduction John E. Eck and Tamara D. Madensen Meaningfully and Artfully Reinterpreting Crime for Useful Science: An Essay on the Value of Building with Simple Theory D. Kim Rossmo and Lucia Summers Routine Activity Theory in Crime Investigation Gisela...
2nd edition. — Routledge, 2023. — 371 p. — ISBN: 978-0-367-63554-1. In this book, author Michele P. Bratina demonstrates how the Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) supports integration of the U.S. healthcare and justice systems to offer more positive outcomes for offenders with mental illness. The book describes a criminal justice – mental health nexus that touches every...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 377 p. — (Oxford Casebook in Psychiatry). — ISBN: 978-0-19-884205-7; Designed as a companion to the Forensic Psychiatry (Oxford Specialist Handbook), Second Edition, this new casebook complements the domains of both theory and practice put forward in the handbook but also works as a standalone volume for those who wish to enhance their...
2nd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2023. — 865 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-882558-6. This Second Edition of Forensic Psychiatry covers the clinical, legal, and ethical issues for the treatment of mentally disordered offenders for all of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland jurisdictions. Written by an expert interdisciplinary team from the fields of both law and psychiatry,...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 691 p. Forensic Psychiatry is the first book to cover the clinical, legal and ethical issues for the treatment of mentally disordered offenders for all of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland jurisdictions. Written by an expert interdisciplinary team from the fields of both law and psychiatry, including the eminent Nigel Eastman who has...
Rutgers University Press, 2008. — 218 p. Hundreds of thousands of the inmates who populate the nation's jails and prison systems today are identified as mentally ill. Many experts point to the deinstitutionalization of mental hospitals in the 1960s, which led to more patients living on their own, as the reason for this high rate of incarceration. But this explanation does not...
Springer, 2018. — 437 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-74664-7 This study guide aims to make European trainees in forensic psychiatry and psychology and young forensic psychiatrists and psychologists aware of the differences and commonalities in forensic psychiatry and psychology in different countries within Europe and to enable them to learn from the approaches adopted in each country....
3rd edition. — American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2018. — 1646 p. — ISBN: 978-1-61537-146-4 The inaugural edition of The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Forensic Psychiatry was the first of its kind, and subsequent editions have raised the bar, earning it a spot as a leading text in this fascinating subspecialty of psychiatry. This new, third...
Springer, 2012. — 603 p. This handbook offers insights and guidance illuminating the many points at which the practice of mental health and the juvenile justice system intersect today. It comes at a promising time. Juvenile justice officials increasingly understand the critical role that mental health services play in rehabilitating the youth in their care.
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 552 p. Forensic mental health assessments are evaluations conducted by individuals from different disciplines on a variety of questions in civil, criminal, and family law. A growing number of mental health professionals, including psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers, are being called upon to assess everything from an individual's...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 180 p. Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines. This series presents up-to-date information on the most important and frequently conducted forms of FMHA. The 19 topical volumes address best approaches to practice for particular types of evaluation in the criminal,...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 244 p. — (Cambridge Criminology Series). In recent years there has been a significant increase in crime among persons suffering from major mental disorders. The authors attempt to describe the criminality of the mentally ill and to identify the complex chain of factors which cause it. As part of their analysis they examine a unique group of...
Humana Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-1-59745-578-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2007933143 Despite technological and societal advances, crimes of an inexplicably violent nature still permeate contemporary civilizations throughout the world. The very existence of such aberrations, despite the passage of time over the centuries and the supposed evolution of our societies, suggests...
CRC Press, 2017. — 424 p. Since the shutdown of our public psychiatry system, the seriously mentally ill are now mostly managed by public safety officers, school officials, emergency first responders and social workers with little experience in recognizing symptoms, triggers and issues. This book addresses the need to recognize the psychiatric component of criminological issues...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. — 450 p. Criminal law has struggled to keep pace with developments in psychiatry, both in substantive and procedural terms, and it is widely recognised that increased inter-disciplinary discussion of mental condition defences is required in order to address this gap between the law and psychiatry. This edited collection comes at a time of...
2nd edition. — Springer, 2010. — 609 p. This book serves as an updated authoritative contemporary reference work intended for use by forensic neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, pediatricians, attorneys, judges, law students, police officers, special educators, and clinical and school psychologists, among other professionals. This book discusses the...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 276 p. Psychopaths have emotional impairments that can be expressed in persistent criminal behavior. UK and US law has traditionally excused disordered individuals for their crimes citing these emotional impairments as a cause for their criminal behaviour. The discussion of whether psychopaths are morally responsible for their behaviour has long...
Humana Press Inc. Totowa, New Jersey, 2006. ISBN: 1-59745-006-5. In Forensic Psychiatry: Influences of Evil, the relationship between forensic psychiatry and evil has been dealt with from various and diverse disciplinary perspectives. The rationale for this approach is that both forensic psychiatry and the notion of evil are part of our developing society, and we should not be...
CRC Press, 2018. — 874 p. — ISBN: 9781444135213. This book covers the basic science and neurobiology of violence and integrates this with clinical, legal, and ethical aspects of forensic psychiatry. The book is designed for postgraduate trainees in psychiatry wishing to specialize in forensic psychiatry, specialists in forensic psychiatry, mental health, criminal lawyers, and...
Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. — 399 p. Youth crime and youth violence blights our communities and shapes the lives of many, whether they are victims, perpetrators or family members. This book examines the application of psychological thinking and practice when working with young people who display high risk behaviours across a broad range of forensic mental health settings in...
4th edition. — The Guilford Press, 2018. — 673 p. — ISBN: 9781462533497 Widely used by practitioners, researchers, and students — and now thoroughly revised with 70% new material — this is the most authoritative, comprehensive book on malingering and other response styles. Leading experts translate state-of-the-art research into clear, usable strategies for detecting...
2nd edition. — Hodder Arnold, 2003. — 929 p. — ISBN: 9780340806647 The second edition of this award-winning textbook has been thoroughly revised and updated throughout. Building on the success of the first edition, the book continues to address the History and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry, Legal Regulation of the Practice of Psychiatry, Psychiatry in relation to Civil Law,...
Karnac Books, 2008. — 240 p. This ground-breaking book examines the role of crime in the lives of people with Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, a condition which appears to be caused by prolonged trauma in infancy and childhood. This trauma may be linked with crimes committed against them, crimes they have witnessed, and crimes...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 404 p. Dr. Robert Sadoff's The Evolution of Forensic Psychiatry is extraordinarily unique in that it is not intended to be a textbook or a guide to forensic psychiatry. Instead, this book is a fascinating mix of historical beginnings, current developments, representative subspecialties of psychiatry, and several allied disciplines and their...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. — 344 p. Psychopathy has been the subject of investigations in both philosophy and psychiatry and yet the conceptual issues remain largely unresolved. This volume approaches psychopathy by considering the question of what psychopaths lack. The contributors investigate specific moral dysfunctions or deficits, shedding light on the...
2nd Ed. — American Psychiatric Publishing Inc., 2010. — 727 p. — ISBN: 1585623784, 978-1585623785. The editors have once again assembled some of the foremost experts in forensic psychiatry for this thoroughly revised and expanded second edition of their classic text. A versatile resource, "The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Forensic Psychiatry" is valuable not only...
Wiley, 2012. — 402 p. This important volume is the first to address the use of neuroimaging in civil and criminal forensic contexts and to include discussion of prior precedents and court decisions. Equally useful for practicing psychiatrists and psychologists, it reviews both the legal and ethical consideraitons of neuroimaging.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 521 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119-95328-9 Forensic CBT: A Handbook for Clinical Practice is an edited collection that represents the first authoritative resource on the utilization of CBT strategies and techniques for offender clients. Criminal Behavior and Antisocial Patterns: Conceptualizing Treatment from Different CBT Perspectives Traditional and Next...
Springer, 2019. — 343 p. This book provides an overview of forensic psychiatry, focusing on the provision of care in Europe as well as the legal and ethical challenges posed by long-term stays in forensic settings. Forensic psychiatric services provide care and treatment for mentally disordered offenders (MDOs) in secure in-patient facilities as well as in the community. These...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2017. — 198 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-63147-9. The practice of psychiatry is one of the most heavily legally regulated of all medical specialties. Understanding how psychiatry and the law interface provides a foundation upon which to build one’s skills and habits through training and beyond. This book can be used to guide or supplement education...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 209 p. — ISBN: 9780199346592 Psychiatric Expert Testimony: Emerging Applications is for practitioners who need to be at the cutting edge of admissibility in court. The book avoids standard applications, such as the insanity defense and specific capacity assessments, in favor of those that may be controversial or require evidentiary hearings. It...
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