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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Chapter 1 An Introduction to Forensic Psychology
- What Is Forensic Psychology?
- ■ In the Media The Reality of Reality TV
- The Roles of a Forensic Psychologist
- ■ Box 1.1 Researcher Profile: Dr. Curt Bartol
- The Forensic Psychologist as Clinician
- The Forensic Psychologist as Researcher
- ■ Box 1.2 Other Forensic Disciplines
- The Forensic Psychologist as Legal Scholar
- The Relationship Between Psychology and Law
- Psychology and the Law
- Psychology in the Law
- Psychology of the Law
- The History of Forensic Psychology
- Early Research: Eyewitness Testimony and Suggestibility
- Early Court Cases in Europe
- Advocates of Forensic Psychology in North America
- Forensic Psychology in Other Areas of the Criminal Justice System
- ■ Box 1.3 Biological, Sociological, and Psychological Theories of Crime
- Landmark Court Cases in the United States
- Signs of a Legitimate Field of Psychology
- Modern-Day Debates: Psychological Experts in Court
- ■ Box 1.4 Influential U.S. Court Cases in the History of Forensic Psychology
- The Functions of the Expert Witness
- The Challenges of Providing Expert Testimony
- Criteria for Accepting Expert Testimony
- ▶ CASE STUDY: You Be the Judge
- ■ Box 1.5 Daubert in Action: New Jersey vs. Fortin (1999–2000)
- Chapter 2 Police Psychology
- Police Selection
- ■ In the Media Using Social Media to Recruit Police Officers
- A Brief History of Police Selection
- The Police Selection Process
- ■ Box 2.1 Validation and Police Selection
- The Validity of Police Selection Instruments
- Police Discretion
- Why Is Police Discretion Necessary?
- Areas Where Police Discretion Is Used
- ■ Box 2.2 Inappropriate Police Discretion: The Case of Racial Profiling
- ■ Box 2.3 Researcher Profile: Dr. Linda Teplin
- ▶ CASE STUDY: You Be the Police Officer
- ■ Box 2.4 Police Brutality in the Rodney King Incident
- Controlling Police Discretion
- ■ Box 2.5 Use-of-Force Continuums
- Police Stress
- Sources of Police Stress
- Consequences of Police Stress
- ■ Box 2.6 The Buffalo Cardio-Metabolic Occupational Police Stress (BCOPS) Study
- Preventing and Managing Police Stress
- Chapter 3 The Psychology of Police Investigations
- Police Interrogations
- The Reid Model of Interrogation
- The Use of the Reid Model in Actual Interrogations
- Potential Problems with the Reid Model of Interrogation
- ■ Box 3.1 Researcher Profile: Dr. Saul Kassin
- Interrogation Practices and the Courts
- An Alternative to the Reid Model
- False Confessions
- The Frequency of False Confessions
- Different Types of False Confessions
- Studying False Confessions in the Lab
- ■ Box 3.2 The Curious Case of Paul Ingram
- The Consequences of Falsely Confessing
- ▶ CASE STUDY: You Be the Police Officer
- Criminal Profiling
- What Is a Criminal Profile?
- The Origins of Criminal Profiling
- ■ In the Media Hollywood Depictions of Criminal Profiling
- How Is a Criminal Profile Constructed?
- Different Types of Profiling Methods
- The Validity of Criminal Profiling
- Geographic Profiling
- Chapter 4 Deception
- The Polygraph Technique
- Applications of the Polygraph Test
- Types of Polygraph Tests
- Validity of Polygraph Techniques
- Can the Guilty Learn to Beat the Polygraph?
- ■ Box 4.1 Seeing Through the Face of Deception
- Scientific Opinion: What Do the Experts Say?
- Admissibility of Polygraph Evidence
- Brain-Based Deception Research
- Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior Cues to Lying
- ■ Box 4.2 Brain Fingerprinting: Evidence for a New Deception-Detection Technology?
- Verbal Cues to Lying
- Are Some People Better at Detecting Deception?
- ■ Box 4.3 Quest for Love: Truth and Deception in Online Dating
- ■ In the Media and Lie Detection
- ■ Box 4.4 Detecting High-Stakes Lies
- Assessment of Malingering and Deception
- Disorders of Deception
- Explanatory Models of Malingering
- How to Study Malingering
- ■ Box 4.5 Researcher Profile: Dr. Richard Rogers
- ■ Box 4.6 Ethics of Deception Research
- Malingered Psychosis
- ■ Box 4.7 Being Sane in Insane Places
- ▶ CASE STUDY: You Be the Forensic Psychologist
- Assessment Methods to Detect Malingered Psychosis
- Chapter 5 Eyewitness Testimony
- Eyewitness Testimony: The Role of Memory
- How Do we Study Eyewitness Issues?
- The Laboratory Simulation
- Recall Memory
- Interviewing Eyewitnesses
- The Leading Question—The Misinformation Effect
- ■ Box 5.1 Researcher Profile: Dr. Elizabeth Loftus
- Procedures That Help Police Interview Eyewitnesses
- Hypnosis
- The Cognitive Interview
- ■ Box 5.2 How the Cognitive Interview Components Are Implemented with Witnesses
- Recall of the Culprit
- Quantity and Accuracy of Descriptions
- Recognition Memory
- Lineup Identification
- Voice Identification
- Are Several Identifications Better Than One?
- Are Confident Witnesses Accurate?
- Estimator Variable Research in Recognition Memory
- Expert Testimony on Eyewitness Issues
- Public Policy Issues and Guidelines
- ▶ CASE STUDY: You Be the Judge
- ■ Box 5.3 A Case of Wrongful Conviction
- ■ In the Media Eyewitness Identification Bill
- ■ Box 5.4 DNA Exoneration Fact Sheet
- Chapter 6 Child Victims and Witnesses
- History
- ■ Box 6.1 Preschools on Trial
- Recall for Events
- Free Recall versus Directed Questioning
- ▶ CASE STUDY: You Be the Forensic Psychologist
- ■ Box 6.2 Researcher Profile: Dr. Stephen Ceci
- Why Are Children More Suggestible Than Adults?
- Other Techniques for Interviewing Children
- Recall Memory Following a Long Delay
- Can Traumatic Memories Be Forgotten?
- ■ Box 6.3 Delayed Memory Goes to Court
- ■ Box 6.4 Delayed Prosecutions of Historic Child Sexual Abuse
- Recall for People
- Describing the Culprit
- Recognition
- Lineup Procedure and Identification Rates
- Testifying in Court
- Courtroom Accommodations
- Child Maltreatment
- ■ Box 6.5 A Case of Neglect or Forgetfulness?
- Risk Factors Associated with Child Maltreatment
- Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Physical Abuse
- Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Sexual Abuse
- ■ Box 6.6 Luring Children over the Internet
- ■ In the Media To Catch a Predator
- Chapter 7 Juries: Fact Finders
- Getting to Trial
- Grand Jury
- Petit Jury
- Jury Selection
- Predicting Who Will Be a Favorable Juror—Pro-Prosecution versus Pro-Defense
- Scientific Jury Selection
- Methodology Used for Scientific Jury Selection
- Characteristics and Responsibilities of Juries
- Representativeness
- ■ Box 7.1 Balancing a Jury by Race
- Impartiality
- ■ Box 7.2 Change of Venue Granted
- ■ Box 7.3 Probing Jurors’ Religious Biases
- Jury Functions
- How Do we Study Jury Behavior?
- Post-Trial Interviews
- Archives
- Simulation
- Field Studies
- Reaching a Verdict
- Listening to the Evidence
- Disregarding Inadmissible Evidence
- ■ In the Media The CSI Effect
- Judge’s Instructions
- Jury Decision-Making Models
- Deliberations
- The Final Verdict
- Predicting Verdicts
- Demographic Variables
- Personality Traits
- Attitudes
- Defendant Characteristics
- Victim Characteristics
- ■ Box 7.4 Researcher Profile: Dr. Bette Bottoms
- Expert Testimony
- ▶ CASE STUDY: You Be the Juror
- Chapter 8 The Role of Mental Illness in Court
- Diagnosing Mental Disorders
- Presumptions in the Criminal Justice System
- Competency to Stand Trial
- Raising the Issue of Competency
- How Many Defendants Are Referred for Competency Evaluations?
- Who Can Assess Competency?
- Competency Instruments
- Distinguishing between Competent and Incompetent Defendants
- ■ Box 8.1 Competency Instruments
- ▶ CASE STUDY: You Be the Judge
- How Is Competency Restored?
- ■ Box 8.2 Mentally Ill But Competent to Make Treatment Decisions?
- What Happens after a Finding of Incompetency?
- Mental State at Time of Offense
- Mental Illness and Verdict
- ■ Box 8.3 Multimillionaire John du Pont: A Mentally Ill Killer
- Using the Insanity Defense
- ■ Box 8.4 Researcher Profile: Dr. Henry (Hank) Steadman
- Assessing Insanity
- What Happens to a Defendant Found “Insane”?
- Defendants with Mental Disorders
- Why Are There Such High Rates of Mental Illness in Offender Populations?
- Dealing with Offenders Who Are Mentally Ill
- Bias against Offenders Who Are Mentally Ill
- Are People with Mental Illnesses Violent?
- Treatment of Offenders with Mental Disorders
- ■ In the Media Are Offenders with Mental Illness Really Violent?
- A New Court for People with Mental Illness: The Mental Health Courts
- Are Mental Health Courts Effective?
- Chapter 9 Sentencing in the United States: Practices and Public Opinions
- The Structure of the U.S. Court System
- Sentencing in the United States
- The Purposes of Sentencing
- The Principles of Sentencing
- Sentencing Options in the United States
- ■ Box 9.1 Creative Sentencing in the United States
- Factors That Affect Sentencing Decisions
- ■ Box 9.2 Do Male Offenders Get the Short End of the Stick When It Comes to Sentencing?
- ▶ CASE STUDY: You Be the Judge
- Sentencing Disparity
- ■ In the Media Twitter Goes to Court: The Role of Social Media in the Casey Anthony Case
- Are the Goals of Sentencing Achieved?
- ■ Box 9.3 Researcher Profile: Dr. Francis Cullen
- What Works in Offender Treatment?
- ■ Box 9.4 The Ineffectiveness of Scaring Kids Straight
- Public Attitudes Toward Sentencing
- The Media’s Influence on Public Opinion
- Chapter 10 Risk Assessment
- What Is Risk Assessment?
- Risk Assessments: When Are They Conducted?
- Civil Setting
- Criminal Settings
- Types of Prediction Outcomes
- The Base Rate Problem
- A History of Risk Assessment
- ■ Box 10.1 Researcher Profile: Dr. John Monahan
- Methodological Issues
- Judgment Error and Biases
- Approaches to the Assessment of Risk
- ■ Box 10.2 Dr. Death: A Legendary (Notorious) Forensic Psychiatrist
- Types of Risk Factors
- Important Risk Factors
- Dispositional Factors
- Historical Factors
- Clinical Factors
- Contextual Factors
- ■ In the Media Megan’s Law: Attempting to Prevent Crime
- Risk Assessment Instruments
- ■ Box 10.3 Risk Assessment Instruments
- Current Issues
- Where Is the Theory?
- What about Female Offenders?
- ■ Box 10.4 Coping-Relapse Model of Criminal Recidivism
- ▶ CASE STUDY: You Be the Parole Board Member
- What about Protective Factors?
- Risk Assessment: Risky Business?
- Are Decision Makers Using the Scientific Research?
- Why Do Some Individuals Stop Committing Crimes?
- ■ Box 10.5 Why Do High-Risk Violent Offenders Stop Offending?
- Chapter 11 Psychopathy
- Assessment of Psychopathy
- ■ Box 11.1 Subclinical Psychopaths: University Samples
- Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder
- What Makes Them Tick?: Cognitive and Affective Models of Psychopathy
- ■ Box 11.2 Researcher Profile: Dr. Joseph Newman
- Psychopathy and Violence
- ■ Box 11.3 A Psychopath among Us: Serial Killer Ted Bundy
- Psychopaths in the Community
- ■ In the Media Mean on the Screen: Media’s Portrayal of Psychopaths
- Psychopathy and Sexual Violence
- Psychopathy in Youth
- ■ Box 11.4 Psychopathy Label: The Potential for Stigma
- Psychopathy: Nature vs. Nurture?
- Does Family Matter?
- Psychopathy and Treatment
- Forensic Use of Psychopathy
- Psychopathy and Law Enforcement
- ▶ CASE STUDY: You Be the Researcher
- Chapter 12 Assessment and Treatment of Juvenile Delinquency
- Young Offenders
- Historical Overview
- Modern Day
- ■ Box 12.1 The Death Penalty for Juveniles?
- ■ Box 12.2 The Dartmouth Murders
- ▶ CASE STUDY: You Be the Police Officer
- Youth Crime Rates
- Assessment of Young Offenders
- Assessing Those under Age 12
- Assessing the Adolescent
- ■ Box 12.3 Researcher Profile: Dr. Rolf Loeber
- Rates of Behavior Disorders in Youth
- Trajectories of Young Offenders
- ■ Box 12.4 Teen Killers
- Theories to Explain Antisocial Behavior
- Biological Theories
- Cognitive Theories
- Social Theories
- Risk Factors
- Individual Risk Factors
- ■ In the Media Do Video Games Desensitize Teens?
- Familial Risk Factors
- School and Social Risk Factors
- Protective Factors
- ■ Box 12.5 Running Around with the Wrong Crowd: Gangs
- Individual Protective Factors
- Familial Factors
- Social/External Protective Factors
- Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment of Young Offending
- Primary Intervention Strategies
- Secondary Intervention Strategies
- Tertiary Intervention Strategies
- Chapter 13 Intimate Partner Violence
- Types of Violence and Measurement
- ■ Box 13.1 Researcher Profile: Dr. Murray Straus
- Intimate Partners: A Risky Relationship
- ■ Box 13.2 Husband Battering Does Exist
- Theories of Intimate Partner Violence
- Why Do Battered Women Stay?
- ■ Box 13.3 Myths and Realities Concerning Intimate Partner Violence
- A Heterogeneous Population: Typologies of Male Batterers
- ■ Box 13.4 Woman’s Best Friend: Pet Abuse and Intimate Violence
- Criminal Justice Response
- ■ Box 13.5 Tracey Thurman: Calls for Help Ignored
- Effectiveness of Treatment of Male Batterers
- ▶ CASE STUDY: You Be the Judge
- Stalking: Definition, Prevalence, and Typologies
- ■ In the Media Dangerous Fixations: Celebrity Stalkers
- Chapter 14 Sexual and Homicidal Offenders
- Sexual Offenders
- Nature and Extent of Sexual Violence
- Definition of Sexual Violence
- Consequences for Victims of Sexual Violence
- Classification of Sexual Offenders
- ■ Box 14.1 Sexual Assault: Discounting Rape Myths
- ■ Box 14.2 Is Resisting a Sexual Attack a Good Idea?
- ■ Box 14.3 Researcher Profile: Dr. Raymond Knight
- Adolescent Sexual Offenders
- Female Sexual Offenders
- Theories of Sexual Aggression
- Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders
- ▶ CASE STUDY: You Be the Forensic Psychologist
- Effectiveness of Treatment for Sexual Offenders
- ■ Box 14.4 Relapse Prevention with Sexual Offenders
- Homicidal Offenders
- Nature and Extent of Homicidal Violence
- Bimodal Classification of Homicide
- Filicide: When Parents Kill
- Mothers Who Kill
- Fathers Who Kill
- ■ Box 14.5 From Devotion to Depression: A Mother Who Killed
- Youth Who Kill
- Spousal Killers
- Serial Murderers: The Ultimate Predator
- Mass Murderers
- Theories of Homicidal Aggression
- ■ In the Media The Mass Media and Antisocial Behavior
- Treatment of Homicidal Offenders
- Glossary
- References
- Credits
- Case Index
- Name Index
- Subject Index
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