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• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• A definition of forensic psychology
• A practical guide
• Historical Background
• Introduction
• Pre-Victorian developments
• Medicine and law
• Science and law
• Insanity and the law
• The Wild Beast Test
• Nineteenth-century developments
• Forensic science
• Leipzig: birthplace of forensic psychology
• Early-twentieth-century developments
• Contributions from French pedagogues
• American contributions to psychometric assessment
• The advent of group testing
• Forensic psychology in the armed services
• Postwar developments in the UK
• Hearsay problems
• Changes in forensic psychology practice
• The pornography phase
• The phase of investigative hypnosis
• Conclusions
• Surveys Into Psychological Evidence in Court
• Introduction
• Castell’s 1965 survey
• The 1984 BPS survey
• The 1995 BPS survey
• The Edmondson survey
• Conclusions
• Ethical and Professional Issues
• Introduction
• The BPS code of conduct
• American Psychological Association (APA) Ethics Code
• Notes, test material and documents
• The BPS Investigatory Committee
• Recent surveys into ethical dilemmas
• Contractual duties
• Confidentiality
• Roles and emotional conflicts
• Impartiality
• Biased evidence
• Eagerness to please
• Experts being asked to produce a modified report
• A multiplicity of ethical codes
• Professional liability
• Law of contract
• Law of tort
• Trespass
• Torts to third parties
• Defamation
• Negligence
• Defences in tort
• The best defence of all
• Crimes
• Conclusions
• The Roles of the Forensic Psychologist
• Introduction
• Clinical (assessment) role
• The experimental role
• The actuarial role
• The advisory role
• Psychological versus psychiatric evidence
• Conclusions
• Psychological Testing
• Introduction
• Concepts and principles of psychological testing
• The purpose of psychological tests
• Normative scores
• Mental age
• Reliability
• Validity
• Selection and use of tests
• Interpretation of test scores
• Client’s background history
• Mental state examination
• Co-Operation and Motivation
• Mental Alertness
• Orientation
• Attention and Concentration
• Depression and Anxiety
• Language Problems
• Reading Problems
• Cultural Factors
• Response Bias
• Malingering and ‘faking bad’
• Faking of Cognitive Deficits
• Faking of Amnesia
• Faking of Psychological and Psychiatric Symptoms
• Tests of competencies
• The control of psychological tests
• Conclusions
• Psycholinguistic Techniques
• Introduction
• Stylometry
• Linguistic applications by computer
• The Gunning FOG Index
• Corpus linguistics
• The Cusum plot
• Suicide note analysis
• Analysing auditory material
• The ESDA techniques
• Graphical analysis
• Statement Reality Analysis
• Formal Structure Analysis
• Criteria-Based Content Analysis (CBCA.)
• Conclusions
• Civil Cases
• Introduction
• Civil law
• Civil and criminal law: similarities and differences
• Probability in civil actions
• The judiciary’s view of statistical evidence
• Branches of civil law
• Law of contract
• Law of tort
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Family law
• Child Protection Checklist (See Bridge et al., 1990, For Details)
• Maritime law
• Mercantile law
• Law of equity
• Court of Protection
• Mental incompetency
• Assessing competence to handle own affairs
• Bespoke assessment
• Law of probate
• Coroner’s Court
• Suicide pacts
• Para-suicide
• Canon law
• Administrative law
• Administrative tribunals
• Mental Health Review Tribunals (MHRTs)
• Disciplinary tribunals
• General Medical Council
• Industrial tribunals
• Statutory inquiries
• Prospective statutory inquiries
• Retrospective statutory inquiries
• Homicide inquiries
• Accident inquiries
• Conclusions
• Criminal Cases
• Introduction
• Courts of criminal jurisdiction
• Criminal Cases Review Commission
• Stages in criminal proceedings
• Pretrial issues
• Trial issues
• Sentencing issues
• Probation orders
• Admissibility of expert evidence
• Profiling as expert evidence
• The case of Colin Stagg
• Disputed confessions
• Offenders’ attribution of blame for their crime
• Amnesia
• Recovered memories
• Conclusions
• The Assessment and the Testimony A psychological framework
• Introduction
• General advice
• The referral
• The assessment
• The report
• Pretrial preparation
• Attending court
• The testimony
• Conclusions
• Conclusions
• Forensic psychology in a nutshell
• Contemporary problems in forensic psychology practice
• The future of forensic psychology
• References
• Index