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The Sounds of Silencing - How Child Abuse Victims Are Prevented from Speaking Out (Paperback): Austin Ph D The Sounds of Silencing - How Child Abuse Victims Are Prevented from Speaking Out (Paperback)
Austin Ph D
R424 Discovery Miles 4 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling - A Study in Forensic Psychology (Paperback): William Healy, Mary Healy Pathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling - A Study in Forensic Psychology (Paperback)
William Healy, Mary Healy
R617 R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Save R31 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Disgruntled or Over-Medicated? - A Profile of Joseph Wesbecker (Paperback): P O Doe Disgruntled or Over-Medicated? - A Profile of Joseph Wesbecker (Paperback)
P O Doe
R265 Discovery Miles 2 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Forensic Forum (Hardcover): Robin Odell A Forensic Forum (Hardcover)
Robin Odell
R1,783 Discovery Miles 17 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fitness to Plead - International and Comparative Perspectives (Hardcover): Ronnie MacKay, Warren Brookbanks Fitness to Plead - International and Comparative Perspectives (Hardcover)
Ronnie MacKay, Warren Brookbanks
R2,865 Discovery Miles 28 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The law relating to fitness to plead is an increasingly important area of the criminal law. While criminalization may be justified whenever an offender commits a sufficiently serious moral wrong requiring that he or she be called to account, the doctrine of fitness to plead calls this principle into question in the case of a person who lacks the capacity or ability to participate meaningfully in a criminal trial. In light of the emerging focus on capacity-based approaches to decision-making and the international human rights requirement that the law should treat defendants fairly, this volume offers a benchmark for the theory and practice of fitness to plead, providing readers with a unique opportunity to consider differing perspectives and debate on the future development and direction of a doctrine which has up till now been under-discussed and under-researched. The fitness to plead rules stand as an exception to notions of public accountability for criminal wrongdoing yet, despite the doctrine's long-standing function in criminal procedure, it has proven complex to apply in practice and has given rise to many varied legislative models and considerable litigation in different jurisdictions. Particularly troublesome is the question of what is to be done with someone who has been found unfit to stand trial. Here the law is required to balance the need to protect those defendants who are unable to participate effectively in their own trial, whether permanently or for a defined period, and the need to protect the public from people who may have caused serious social harm as a result of their antisocial behaviour. The challenge for law reformers, legislators, and judges, is to create rules that ensure that everyone who can properly be tried is tried, while seeking to preserve confidence in the fairness of the legal system by ensuring that people who cannot properly engage in the criminal trial process are not forced to endure it.

La Mitomania - Descubriendo al Mentiroso Compulsivo (Spanish, Paperback): Juan Moises de la Serna La Mitomania - Descubriendo al Mentiroso Compulsivo (Spanish, Paperback)
Juan Moises de la Serna
R315 Discovery Miles 3 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
How to Analyze People - 21 Proven Techniques to Secretly Analyze People and Understand Body Language, Personality Types and... How to Analyze People - 21 Proven Techniques to Secretly Analyze People and Understand Body Language, Personality Types and Human Behavior (Paperback)
Leonard Moore
R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Direct Care and Security Staff Trainee Handout - Limit and Lead: Behavior Management Training Program (Paperback): Matthew L.... Direct Care and Security Staff Trainee Handout - Limit and Lead: Behavior Management Training Program (Paperback)
Matthew L. Ferrara Ph. D.
R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Forensic Mental Health - A Source Guide for Professionals (Paperback): Erv Weinkauf, Jerrod M Brown Forensic Mental Health - A Source Guide for Professionals (Paperback)
Erv Weinkauf, Jerrod M Brown
R2,123 Discovery Miles 21 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
CiberAcoso - Cuando el acosador se introduce por el ordenador (Spanish, Paperback): Juan Moises de la Serna CiberAcoso - Cuando el acosador se introduce por el ordenador (Spanish, Paperback)
Juan Moises de la Serna
R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Criminal Psychology, Volumen II (Paperback): Andrea Gouveia Criminal Psychology, Volumen II (Paperback)
Andrea Gouveia; Translated by Andrea Gouveia; Hans Gross
R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Anchor Counseling Sex Offender Treatment Program - A Manual and Workbook for Treatment of Sex Offenders (Paperback): Dennis... Anchor Counseling Sex Offender Treatment Program - A Manual and Workbook for Treatment of Sex Offenders (Paperback)
Dennis Daley; James Robert Ross
R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Limit and Lead Student Workbook (Paperback): Matthew L. Ferrara Ph. D. Limit and Lead Student Workbook (Paperback)
Matthew L. Ferrara Ph. D.
R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Understanding Necrophilia - A Global Multidisciplinary Approach (Paperback): Eric Hickey, Lee Mellor, Anil Aggrawal Understanding Necrophilia - A Global Multidisciplinary Approach (Paperback)
Eric Hickey, Lee Mellor, Anil Aggrawal
R5,683 Discovery Miles 56 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Designed to serve as a complete reference guide for psychiatrists, social workers, those working in law enforcement, and students of forensic medicine and psychology Understanding Necrophilia: A Global Multidisciplinary Approach features the writing of experts from around the world who share professional, cultural, social, and legal insights on the subject. This interdisciplinary text provides a balanced and applied approach to studying necrophilia, and examines the phenomenon from the perspectives of abnormal and social psychology, cultural sociology, criminology, criminal justice, forensic anthropology, medical pathology, and legal systems. Specific topics include historical, legal, definitional, and ethical issues surrounding necrophilia, its etiology, paraphilic co-morbidities, and various typologies and links to homicide. Comprehensive and ground-breaking, Understanding Necrophilia is a well-researched, fearless academic examination of a topic that is both challenging and disturbing, and the author contributions are informative yet sensitive. Understanding Necrophilia can serve as a stand-alone text and is also an excellent supplement to standard textbooks on forensic psychology, criminology, and sexual deviance.

And nothing but the truth - Information gathering techniques for law enforcement agents and interested laymen (Paperback):... And nothing but the truth - Information gathering techniques for law enforcement agents and interested laymen (Paperback)
Horst M. Nothen Ma
R502 Discovery Miles 5 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book "And nothing but the truth" is designed to provide specific tools and techniques most valuable for witness and suspect interviewing. Chapter 1 deals with sophisticated NLP techniques used to establish the important rapport with the witness or suspect, and with visualization techniques aimed at overcoming denial and resistance. Chapter 2 is about the necessary preparations for an interview, the personality of the interviewer, and the interview setting. The anamnesis (or curriculum vitae) is presented as a means to calibrate the suspect's or witness' individual expression style. The knowledge of the suspect's or witness' individual expression style is of major importance when you have to decide upon a specific interview approach, and when you want to tell lies in the witness or suspect's body language. At the end of Chapter 2 the author discusses legal and ethical aspects of the interview. Chapter 3 covers the initial motivation phase. With the aid of a sentence by sentence transcript, you will learn how to get the witness or suspect into the right mood for telling the truth and/or make a confession. Chapter 4 deals with the different interview approaches used with the different types of subjects. The sentence by sentence transcript is a sample for DUI and hit-and-run offenses. The transcript not only provides the specific questions you should ask to get the information you need, but also explains why you should ask that specific question at that particular time, and what a specific answer should tell you. Chapter 5 is about nonverbal and verbal clues to deceit. You will learn how to detect lies watching the subject's body language and analyzing his verbal statements. Become a living lie detector

A Girl's Guide to the Criminal Mind - The Survival Handbook (Paperback): Alison Summers A Girl's Guide to the Criminal Mind - The Survival Handbook (Paperback)
Alison Summers
R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Three False Convictions, Many Lessons - The Psychopathology of Unjust Prosecutions (Paperback): David C. Anderson, Nigel P.... Three False Convictions, Many Lessons - The Psychopathology of Unjust Prosecutions (Paperback)
David C. Anderson, Nigel P. Scott
R930 Discovery Miles 9 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A new perspective on why false charges occur, proceed and persist which looks at the roles of psychopathology, confirmation bias, false confessions, the media and internet among other causes. Puts lack of empathy at the fore in terms of police, prosecutors and others whilst considering a wide range of other psychopathological aspects of false convictions. Based on first-hand knowledge or involvement (David Anderson was Stefan Kiszko's endocrinologist and attended both his and the Knox/Sollecito trial). What drives false but serious criminal charges and why do police and prosecutors often persist against those wrongly in the dock? As this book shows-by looking at three high profile cases, those of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito (Italy), Stefan Kiszko (UK) and Darlie Routier (USA)-motive forces are a mind-set in which psychopathy (what the authors charitably term 'constitutional negative empathy') may be present and in which confirmation bias (the need to reinforce a decision once made or lose face) plays a large part.Darlie Routier is still on death row in Texas despite overwhelming evidence that her conviction for killing her own child is false, whilst Knox, Sollecito and Kiszko have been vindicated by the highest and best of authority and compelling evidence. The authors show how wholly unfounded rumours still persist in the Knox/Sollecito case due to hostile media and internet trolling. In the Routier case they advance a new theory that the killings (two in all) were in fact the work of a notorious serial killer.'In the light of all this, questionable trial procedures need to be overhauled, with much greater recognition of (their) imperfections and of the general imbalance in favour of the prosecution. Greater weight needs to be given...to establishing real, rather than merely judicial, truth' - (Chapter 11).

Is Punishment Ethical? - The Fallacy of Good and Evil--A Thesis (Paperback): Jeanine Joy Is Punishment Ethical? - The Fallacy of Good and Evil--A Thesis (Paperback)
Jeanine Joy
R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Disciple or Partner - A Profile of Charles Tex Watson (Paperback): P O Doe Disciple or Partner - A Profile of Charles Tex Watson (Paperback)
P O Doe
R262 Discovery Miles 2 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
N O I R - A White Paper (Paperback): David L. Charney M. D. N O I R - A White Paper (Paperback)
David L. Charney M. D.
R165 Discovery Miles 1 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling (Paperback): Mary Tenney Healy, William Healy Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling (Paperback)
Mary Tenney Healy, William Healy
R615 Discovery Miles 6 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Myth of the Born Criminal - Psychopathy, Neurobiology, and the Creation of the Modern Degenerate (Paperback): Jarkko... The Myth of the Born Criminal - Psychopathy, Neurobiology, and the Creation of the Modern Degenerate (Paperback)
Jarkko Jalava, Stephanie Griffiths, Michael Maraun
R1,229 Discovery Miles 12 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

By some estimates, there are as many as twelve million psychopaths in the United States alone. Cold-blooded, remorseless, and strangely charismatic, they commit at least half of all serious and violent crimes. Supposedly, most serial killers are psychopaths, as, surprisngly, are large numbers of corporate executives. They seem to be an inescapable, and fascinating, threat in our midst. But is psychopathy a brain disorder, as many scientists now claim? Or is it just a reflection of modern society's deepest fears? The Myth of the Born Criminal offers the first comprehensive critique of the concept of psychopathy from the eighteenth-century origins of the born-criminal theory to the latest neuroimaging, behavioural genetics, and statistical studies. Jarkko Jalava, Stephanie Griffiths, and Michael Maraun use their expertise in neuropsychology, psychometrics, and criminology to dispel the myth that psychopathy is a biologically-based condition. Deconstructing the emotive language with which both research scientists and reporters describe the psychopaths among us, they explain how the idea of psychopathy offers a comforting neurobiological solution to the mystery of evil. A stunning merger of rigorous science and clear-sighted cultural analysis, The Myth of the Born Criminal is for anyone who wonders just what truth - or fiction - lurks behind the study of psychopathy.

Domestic Violence Risk Assessment - Tools for Effective Prediction and Management (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): N.Zoe Hilton Domestic Violence Risk Assessment - Tools for Effective Prediction and Management (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
N.Zoe Hilton
R1,541 Discovery Miles 15 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This authoritative second edition helps those charged with curbing domestic violence assess and manage offenders and the risk of recidivism.Effectively measuring and communicating the risk of domestic assault recidivism is an essential part of curbing domestic violence. This authoritative book for psychologists, child protection workers, lawyers, and other professionals involved in assessing and managing offenders presents a comprehensive risk assessment system comprised of the Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA) and the Domestic Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (DVRAG). It demonstrates how to score, interpret, and communicate the results of these assessments, and how to incorporate their results into broader discussions of public policy. The appraisals have been thoroughly updated to accurately assess individuals from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds, along with new coverage of female offenders alongside male offenders, making this new edition a crucial resource for ensuring victim safety, offender treatment, and criminal justice in the modern world.

Forensic Behavioral Analysis. Criminal Behavior and the Justice System (Paperback): Louis Howell Forensic Behavioral Analysis. Criminal Behavior and the Justice System (Paperback)
Louis Howell
R806 Discovery Miles 8 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Writing Reports for Court - An International Guide for Psychologists Who Work in the Criminal Jurisdiction (Paperback): Jack... Writing Reports for Court - An International Guide for Psychologists Who Work in the Criminal Jurisdiction (Paperback)
Jack White, Andrew Day, Louisa Hackett, J.Thomas Dalby
R1,060 Discovery Miles 10 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Psychologists are increasingly being asked to give evidence in court as expert witnesses, yet for some it can be a harrowing experience. Writing Reports for Court provides essential support for psychologists when preparing a court report and giving evidence.A well prepared report underpins an effective court presentation. The credibility of a psychologist called upon to prepare a report for court will be questioned if the document presented is viewed poorly. The court will place little weight on the report and the psychologist's professional reputation will be placed at risk.This book offers guidance on the content and structure of reports, highlights the importance of assessments that directly address the legal questions under consideration, and includes detailed descriptions of relevant law and practice in Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Singapore.Featuring several comprehensive case studies, this book serves as an excellent resource for any working psychologist who may find themselves in a criminal court as well as any psychologist or student considering a career in forensic work.

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