Taylor & Francis India: Forensic Social Work

By Melvin Delgado, Denise Humm-Delgado

Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Older Adults discusses two converging problems: the aging baby boomer generation and the large percentage of the American population in prison. This book focuses on the treatment, reentry, financial challenges, medical issues, and policy implications of the…

Paperback – 2019-12-16
Routledge

By George T. Patterson

Social Work Practice in the Criminal Justice System presents an overview of the criminal justice system for social workers, exploring the networks and institutions which comprise it. Integrating social work ethics and a commitment to social justice, this textbook explores social work practice…

Paperback – 2019-12-10
Routledge

Edited by Elizabeth A. Bates, Julie C. Taylor

Since the 1970s the issue of intimate partner violence (IPV) has been explained through the patriarchal desire of men to control and dominate women, but this gendered perspective limits both our understanding of IPV and its treatment. Intimate Partner Violence: New Perspectives in Research and…

Paperback – 2019-04-04
Routledge

Edited by Ashley Ratliff, Maren Willins

This book draws upon the Colorado Model of Criminal Defense-Based Forensic Social Work – a holistic, client-centered, collaborative approach that uses a trauma-informed care framework – to outline the numerous roles and skills of a forensic social worker. The comprehensive, developmentally informed…

Paperback – 2018-10-16
Routledge

By Jackie Craissati

Sexual offenders – arguably the most hated and feared of all offenders – commit their crimes in our communities and are then hidden from public view as they serve long prison sentences. However, despite the public’s understandable anxiety, our criminal justice systems hold to the premise that…

Paperback – 2018-10-10
Routledge

Edited by Matt DeLisi

For over two centuries, psychopathy has stood as perhaps the most formidable risk factor for antisocial behavior, crime, and violence. The Routledge International Handbook of Psychopathy and Crime presents the state-of-the-art on the full landscape of research on antisocial behavior that employs…

Hardback – 2018-08-10
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Routledge International Handbooks

By Barton F. Evans, III, Giselle A. Hass

Forensic Psychological Assessment in Immigration Court is an essential specialized guide for psychologists and clinicians who work with immigrants. Immigration evaluations differ in many ways from other types of forensic assessments because of the psycholegal issues that extend beyond the…

Paperback – 2018-03-07
Routledge

By Peter Joyce

This revised and expanded third edition offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the criminal justice system of England and Wales. Starting with an overview of the main theories of the causes of crime, this book explores and discusses the operation of the main criminal justice agencies…

Paperback – 2017-06-29
Routledge

Edited by Jason Davies, Claire Nagi

From the ‘nothing works’ maxim of the 1970s to evidence-based interventions to challenge recidivism and promote pro-social behavior, psychological therapy has played an important role in rehabilitation and risk reduction within forensic settings in recent years. And yet the typical group therapy…

Paperback – 2017-05-08
Routledge

Edited by Rosemary Sheehan, James Ogloff

Forensic work occurs across the criminal justice sector and the legal and health professions and intersects with work in a range of areas, such as child protection, family welfare, mental health, offending, disability and addictions, family violence programmes, juvenile justice and sexual assault…

Paperback – 2016-11-30
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Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

By Jason Davies

Forensic practitioners work in a diverse range of settings, with a wide variety of groups and with a large number of agencies. Their work, whilst rewarding, is challenging, demanding and often undertaken in highly stressful situations. Ensuring that the workforce is trained and supported is…

Paperback – 2016-11-07
Routledge
Issues in Forensic Psychology

Edited by Ioan Durnescu, Fergus McNeill

Criminological and penological scholarship has in recent years explored how and why institutions and systems of punishment change – and how and why these changes differ in different contexts. Important though these analyses are, this book focuses not so much on the changing nature of institutions…

Paperback – 2015-06-09
Routledge
Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice