Complete introduction to forensic psychology and understanding psychology's expanding influence on the study of law, crime, and criminality

Highlighting the often-sizable gap between media myths surrounding forensic practice and reality, Forensic Psychology presents a broad range of topics within the field, including detailed treatments of the causes of crime, investigative methods, the trial process, and interventions with different types of offenders and offenses.

To aid in reader comprehension, this Fourth Edition is supplemented with additional online resource materials, including related links, multiple choice questions, and PowerPoint slides.

Authored by a wide range of experienced forensic psychology professionals and drawing on a wealth of experience from leading researchers and practitioners, Forensic Psychology includes information on:

• Pyschological approaches to understanding crime and developmental and psychological theories of offending 
• Contributions of neuroscience in understanding risk factors for offending and effects of interpersonal crime on victims
• Eyewitness evidence, psychopathy, interviewing winesses and suspects, detecting deception, and offender profiling and crime linkage
• Interpersonal violence and stalking, judicial processes, safeguarding vulnerable witnesses, criminal responsibilities, and the role of the expert witness 
• Rehabilitation of offenders, risk assessment, treating dangerous offenders, and interventions with female offenders and offenders with intellectual disabilities

With comprehensive coverage of the subject and its many important intricacies, the Fourth Edition of Forensic Psychology is essential reading for undergraduates' first encounter with the subject area and is also an excellent introduction for more specialized postgraduate courses.

Preface to the Fourth Edition

About the Editors

List of Contributors

About the Companion Website

1.Theory and Practice in Forensic Psychology: An Overview

Graham M. Davies, Anthony R. Beech and Melissa F. Colloff

Part I THE CAUSES OF CRIME

1A. Psychological Approaches to Understanding Crime

Emma Palmer

1B. Developmental and Psychological Theories of Offending

David P. Farrington

2. Psychopathy

Steven M. Gillespie and Carlo Garofalo

3. Understanding Risk factors for Offending: The Contributions of Neuroscience

Lilia Psalta, Anthony R. Beech and Adrian Raine

4. Effects of Interpersonal Crime on Victims

Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis and Emma Sleath

Part II INVESTIGATING CRIME

5. Criminal Investigation and Decision Making

Neil Shortland and Laurence Alison

6. Eyewitness Evidence

Melissa F. Colloff, Heather D. Flowe, and Tia C. Bennett

7. Interviewing Witnesses

Allison P. Mugno, Lindsay C. Malloy and David J. La Rooy

8. Interviewing Suspects

Erik Mac Giolla and Pär Anders Granhag

9. Detecting Deception

Pär Anders Granhag and Maria Hartwig

10. Offender Profiling and Crime Linkage

Jessica Woodhams, Matthew Tonkin and Amy Burrell

11. Interpersonal Violence and Stalking

 Louise Dixon and Erica Bowen

12. Terrorism

Max Taylor

Part III THE TRIAL PROCESS

13. Judicial Processes

Jacqueline M. Wheatcroft

14. Safeguarding Vulnerable Witnesses

Graham M. Davies and Rachel Wilcock

15. Criminal Responsibility and Legal Insanity

John M. Fabian

16. The Role of the Expert Witness

Daniel T Wilcox and Leam A. Craig

Part IV DEALING WITH OFFENDERS

17. The Rehabilitation of Corrections Clients: Good lives and Risk Reduction

Tony Ward, Gwenda M. Willis and David S. Prescott

18. Risk Assessment

Anthony R. Beech and Ruth Hatcher

19. Treating Dangerous Offenders

Leigh Harkins, Adam J, Carter, Andrea Jackson and Jayson Ware

20. Interventions with Justice-Involved Girls and Women

Franca Cortoni and Nathalie M. G. Fontaine

21. Interventions for Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities

John L. Taylor and Ian Freckelton

22. Working with mental health issues in people who have offended

Jason Davies and Claire Nagi

23. Modifying Risk Factors, Building Strengths

Corine de Ruiter and Vivienne de Vogel

Part V FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY: EMERGING ISSUES, FUTURE CHALLENGES

The Utility of Cyberpsychology and Forensic Cyberpsychology

Mary Aiken

Data-Driven Policing

Kari Davies

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Eyewitness Identification

John T. Wixted

Targets of Explanation in Correctional and Forensic Psychology

Tony Ward

Future Directions in Treatment: What Might Work for Whom, Where and When?

Jason Davies

Cultural Responsivity Considerations in the Assessment and Treatment of Justice-Involved Populations

Ida Dickie

Future Approaches to Personality Difficulties, Trauma and Reducing the Risk of Reoffending

Jackie Craissati

Index