Criminal Behaviour and Forensic Psychology Books

New and Published Books

1. Handbook on the Study of Multiple Perpetrator Rape

   A multidisciplinary response to an international problem.

   Edited by Miranda Horvath, Jessica Woodhams

   Series: Issues in Forensic Psychology

   Whilst there is considerable literature on rape from various perspectives, there is very little that focuses on rape committed by multiple perpetrators (also referred to as group or gang rape). For the first time, this handbook brings together international multi-disciplinary perspectives on...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Criminology

   2nd Edition

   By Tim Newburn

   Tim Newburn’s bestselling Criminology provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction for students of the subject, providing the basis for all undergraduate degree courses or modules, and for new postgraduates, in Criminology. This second edition includes: a complete update of...

   Published December 23rd 2012 by Routledge
3. Panic

   By Keith Tester

   Series: Shortcuts

   Impending environmental catastrophe, threat of terrorism, viruses both biological and virtual, disease: there seem to be so many reasons to panic today. But what is panic and why does it happen? This book uses a range of literature from sociology, cultural studies and popular psychology to develop...

   Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge
4. Offender Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Communities

   Enabling Change the TC way

   By Alisa Stevens

   Series: International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation

   Offender rehabilitation has become increasingly and almost exclusively associated with structured cognitive-behavioural programmes. For fifty years, however, a small number of English prisons have promoted an alternative method of rehabilitation: the democratic therapeutic community (TC). These...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
5. An Introduction to Criminal Psychology

   By Russil Durrant

   Crime is a topic that is of considerable interest to policy-makers, politicians andthe public alike. We want to know what factors can explain the nature andprevalence of crime in society and use this knowledge to better develop approaches for managing criminal behaviour. This book provides a...

   Published October 7th 2012 by Routledge
6. Women, Crime and Criminology (Routledge Revivals)

   A Feminist Critique

   By Carol Smart

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1977, Women, Crime and Criminology presents a feminist critique of classical and contemporary theories of female criminality. It addresses the issue that criminology literature has, throughout history, been predominantly male-oriented, always treating female criminality as...

   Published October 3rd 2012 by Routledge
7. Investigating Missing Children Cases

   A Guide for First Responders and Investigators

   By Donald F. Sprague

   Time is an abducted child’s worst enemy. Seventy-four percent of abducted children who are murdered are killed within three hours of their abduction. It takes, on the average, two hours for a parent to report a child missing. This gives responders only one hour to get an investigation up and...

   Published September 17th 2012 by CRC Press
8. Foundations of Offender Rehabilitation

   By Sharon Casey, Andrew Day, Jim Vess, Tony Ward

   The past three decades has seen dramatic changes in the way in which the criminal justice system responds to those who break the law. The old claim in the field of correctional psychology that "nothing works" has strongly been refuted in the face of evidence from rehabilitation programmes that do...

   Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
9. Managing Clinical Risk

   A Guide to Effective Practice

   Edited by Caroline Logan, Lorraine Johnstone

   Series: Issues in Forensic Psychology

   Violence directed towards others and violence directed towards oneself cause an immense amount of physical and psychological damage – to the harmed and the harmful person alike, to their families, and to the public at large. Managing clinical risk is an authoritative manual for practitioners...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Willan
10. Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control?

    Theory, Policy and Practice Explored

    Edited by Jo Brayford, Francis Cowe, John Deering

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

    Sex offending, and in particular child sex offending, is a complex area for policy makers, theorists and practitioners. A focus on punishment has reinforced sex offending as a problem that is essentially ‘other’ to society and discourages engagement with the real scale and scope of sexual offending...

    Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge