Forensic Books
Prison violence: Conflict, power and victimization
Prisons are dangerous places - assaults and threats are pervasive - this is attributable to the characteristics of the captive population and an institutional culture which promotes violence. This... (more)
Violent Adolescents: Understanding the Destructive Impulse
This volume looks at the reasons behind adolescent violence, and illuminates the earlier disturbances in the life history of the adolescent, which contribute to violent behaviour. The contributors... (more)
Dangerous Patients: A Psychodynamic Approach to Risk Assessment and Management
This thought-provoking new collection - the fourth volume in the Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series - investigates the inherent difficulties in risk assessment. We have all read the lurid... (more)
Offender rehabilitation in practice: Implementing and evaluating effective programs
This book to focuses on the transfer of knowledge of worldwide effective offender rehabilitation programmes. It reviews "real world" challenges of programme effectiveness and survival and offers... (more)
Coordinating community response to domestic violence: Lessons from the Duluth model
The 'Duluth Model' is a widely disseminated approach to community-based intervention in domestic violence. This authoritative and comprehensive volume examines how to develop a response to domestic... (more)
Prison on wheels:
This work is a survivor's record of a horrific 17-day journey through Nazi Germany to Burhgau, one of Nazi Germany's vast network of labour and concentration camps. (more)
Violence and Mental Disorder
Violence and Mental Disorder takes the debate about violence into new territory by increasing our understanding of the wide range of factors associated with the commission of violence. (more)
Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment:
This handbook provides a resource on the rehabilitation and treatment of offenders in community, residential prison and secure hospital settings. It includes a range of approaches to treatment,... (more)
Violence: A Public Health Menace and a Public Health Approach
'In addressing the issue of violence, our first purpose is to provide practical information that will help the reader to design specific intervention strategies aimed at preventing the escalation of... (more)
Forensic Nursing and Multidisciplinary Care of the Mentally Disordered Offender
This volume is an account of forensic nursing and its role within the wider professional team. Its aim is to provide a multidisciplinary perspective on the training needed to work with mentally... (more)
Male Victims of Sexual Assault
This work reports on the first epidemiological study of male sexual victimization in Europe and challenges the stereotype of gay men as sexual predators. It discusses male rape in prisons,... (more)
Children and interparental violence: the impact of exposure
This text, rich with impeccable research, current theories, and treatment strategies, pays specific and unique attention to the families' ethnic backgrounds, parents' sexual orientations and forensic... (more)
Interviewing children: A guide for child care and forensic practitioners
This text offers practitioners an understanding of children's language abilities at different development stages, and gives clear guidelines on strategies that professionals might adopt to facilitate... (more)
Risk management with suicidal patients:
This volume aims to show clinicians how to incorporate risk-management procedures into their practice whilst maintaining a high level of patient care. Chapters examine the clinical and forensic risks... (more)
Personality Disorders: Recognition and Clinical Management
With detailed coverage of recognition, assessment and management, this text provides an account of those aspects of personality disorders which are of relevance to psychiatrists, clinical... (more)
Working with Sex Offenders in Prisons and Through Release into the Com
This study looks at the wide range of issues and problems relating to the management of sexual offenders in prisons. The author makes a case for implementing treatment for sexual offenders within... (more)
Violence: Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic
This work lays the foundation for a complete rethinking of the nature and meaning of violence in society. The author reveals the motives of men who commit violent crimes and men who not only kill... (more)
Cognitive Behavioural Treatment of Sexual Offenders
Sexual offending is an extensive problem in our societies causing untold harm to many innocent victims. This treatment programme presses these offenders into facing the facts and taking... (more)
Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream: A Forensic Psychiatrist Illuminates the Darker Side of Human Behaviour
This text provides insights into the minds of rapists, serial killers, psychopaths, and other individuals whose behaviour both frightens and fascinates us. It works to break down the false separation... (more)
Prison Theatre: Perspectives and Practices
This work provides a cross-section of the variety of theatre programmes with offenders. It aims to inform debate both in the criminal justice system and in discussions about the role and function of... (more)
Race, Culture and Ethnicity in Secure Psychiatric Practice: Working with Difference
People from ethnic minorities are overrepresented in secure psychiatric care, and have been reported to receive differential treatment from staff. This text questions whether Western, white-oriented... (more)
Mentally Disordered Offenders
This book asks for better care of mentally disturbed law breakers and the need to divert them from imprisonment. (more)
Forensic Psychiatry, Race and Culture
Forensic psychiatry is the discipline which distinguishes the "mad" from the "bad", but are its values inherently racist? Why are individuals from non-Western backgrounds over-represented... (more)
Good Practice in Working with Violence
Designed to be relevant for a variety of practice settings, this text provides a comprehensive guide to the techniques and skills required for good practice in assessing and managing violence. (more)
Managing High Security Psychiatric Care
The contributors examine the management of these services in the light of their experiences and involvement with the Special Hospitals throughout the lifetime of the Special Hospitals Service... (more)
Basic Forensic Psychiatry
This text has been generally updated and, over 20 new sections, covers areas such as: false confessions, multiple homicides, the sexual abuse of children, Munchausen's syndrome by proxy, the role of... (more)