Clinical Forensic Psychology and Law

Description

Clinical Forensic Psychology and Law is a compilation of recent and classic articles providing comprehensive coverage of the field of clinical forensic psychology and law. Selected articles sample the major areas of the discipline, including criminal and civil forensic assessment, forensic treatment, youth assessment and intervention, and professional and ethical issues in forensic practice. The volume is designed for use by scholars, graduates and undergraduates in psychology and law schools. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Series Preface Introduction PART I: CRIMINAL FORENSIC ASSESSMENT 1: 'Violence Risk Assessment: Science and Practice' 2: 'Prediction Versus Management Models Relevant to Risk Assessment: The Importance of Legal Decision-Making Context' 3: 'Searching for the Pan-Cultural Core of Psychopathic Personality Disorder' 4: 'The Characteristics of Persistent Sexual Offenders: A Meta-Analysis of Recidivism Studies' 5: 'The Competence of Criminal Defendants: A Theoretical Reformulation' 6: 'An Investigation of the Construct of Competence: A Comparison of the FIT, the MacCAT-CA, and the MacCAT-T' PART II: CIVIL FORENSIC ASSESSMENT 7: 'Legal Protection in Psychiatry: Balancing the Rights and Needs of Patients and Society' 8: 'The MacArthur Treatment Competence Study I: Mental Illness and Competence to Consent to Treatment' 9: 'Mental Disorder, Violence, and Gender' 10: 'Empirical Limits for the Forensic Assessment of PTSD Litigants' 11: 'A Critical Assessment of Child Custody Evaluations: Limited Science and a Flawed System' PART III: FORENSIC TREATMENT 12: 'From Nothing Works to What Works: Changing Professional Ideology in the 21st Century' 13: 'Psychopathy and Therapeutic Pessimism: Clinical Lore or Clinical Reality?' 14: 'Evaluation of a National Prison-Based Treatment Program for Sexual Offenders in England and Wales' 15: 'Treatment Effects on Forensic Psychiatric Patients Measured with the HCR-20 Violence Risk Assessment Scheme' 16: 'Evaluation of a Mental Health Treatment Court with Assertive Community Treatment' PART IV: YOUTH ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION 17: 'Young Children Who Commit Crime: Epidemiology, Developmental Origins, Risk Factors, Early Interventions, and Policy Implications' 18: 'Psychiatric Disorders in Youth in Juvenile Detention' 19: `Examining the Science and Practice of Violence Risk Assessment with Female Adolescents' 20: 'The Inherent Limits of Predicting School Violence' 21: 'Juveniles' Competence to Stand Trial: A Comparison of Adolescents' and Adults' Capacities as Trial Defendants' 22: 'Multisystemic Treatment of Criminality and Violence in Adolescents' 23: 'Managing At-Risk Juvenile Offenders in the Community: Putting Evidence-Based Principles into Practice' PART V: FORENSIC PRACTICE: PROFESSIONAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES 24: 'The Practice of Forensic Psychology: A Look Toward the Future in Light of the Past' 25: 'Training in Law and Psychology: Models from the Villanova Conference' 26: 'Irreconcilable Conflict Between Therapeutic and Forensic Roles' 27: 'The Quality of Forensic Psychological Assessments, Reports, and Testimony: Acknowledging the Gap Between Promise and Practice' 28: 'Emerging Issues in Forensic Mental Health' Name Index