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Numerical Methods of Statistics John Monahan 9780521139519
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £49.99This book explains how computer software is designed to perform the tasks required for sophisticated statistical analysis. For statisticians, it examines the nitty-gritty computational problems... -
Violence and Mental Disorder: Developments in Risk Assessment by John Monahan 9780226534060
Booksplease Price: £27.62In courts across the country, judges depend on mental health experts to determine whether mentally disordered people are dangerous. But experts' ability to predict violence is severely limited, and... -
Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence by John Monahan 9780195138825
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £52.92Rethinking Risk Assessment tells the story of a pioneering investigation that challenges preconceptions about the frequency and nature of violence among persons with mental disorders, and suggests an... -
They Called Me Mad: Genius, Madness, and the Scientists Who Pushed the Outer Limits of Knowledge by John Monahan 9780425236963
RRP: £18.90Booksplease Price: £17.99Discover the true genius behind history's greatest "madmen". From Dr. Frankenstein to Dr. Jekyll, the image of the mad scientist surrounded by glass vials, copper coils, and electrical apparatus... -
Violence Risk - Assessment and Management: Advances Through Structured Professional Judgement and Sequential Redirections by Christopher D. Webster 9781119961147
RRP: £84.95Booksplease Price: £83.70This expanded and updated new edition reflects the growing importance of the structured professional judgement approach to violence risk assessment and management. It offers comprehensive guidance on... -
The Criminal Justice System by Bruce Dennis Sales 9781468425642
Booksplease Price: £90.56Although psychologists have related, scientifically and professionally, to the law for over 50 years now, the two fields have not been systematically integrated. Happily, that situation is changing... -
An Introduction to Healthcare Informatics: Building Data-Driven Tools by Peter Mccaffrey
RRP: £97.99Booksplease Price: £88.39An Introduction to Healthcare Informatics: Building Data-Driven Tools bridges the gap between the current healthcare IT landscape and cutting edge technologies in data science, cloud infrastructure,... -
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by Robert D. Hare 9781572304512
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.19Most people are both repelled and intrigued by the images of cold-blooded, conscienceless murderers that increasingly populate our movies, television programs, and newspaper headlines. With their... -
Violence Risk - Assessment and Management: Advances Through Structured Professional Judgement and Sequential Redirections Christopher D. Webster (Simon Fraser University, University of Toronto, Canada) 9781119961130
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.86This expanded and updated new edition reflects the growing importance of the structured professional judgement approach to violence risk assessment and management. It offers comprehensive guidance on... -
Dangerous People: Policy, Prediction, and Practice by Bernadette McSherry
RRP: £81.99Booksplease Price: £72.95Experienced legal academics and mental health professionals explore the current approaches to "dangerousness" and preventive detention. The defining characteristics of those deemed dangerous by... -
Law without Justice: Why Criminal Law Doesn't Give People What They Deserve by Paul H. Robinson 9780195160154
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £52.67If an innocent person is sent to prison or if a killer walks free, we are outraged. The legal system assures us, and we expect and demand, that it will seek to "do justice" in criminal cases. So why,... -
Numerical Methods of Statistics by John F. Monahan 9780521191586
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.59This book explains how computer software is designed to perform the tasks required for sophisticated statistical analysis. For statisticians, it examines the nitty-gritty computational problems... -
Prediction Statistics for Psychological Assessment R. Karl Hanson 9781433836411
RRP: £66.00Booksplease Price: £56.76At last, a comprehensive guide that meets psychologists and other social scientists' growing need to master the tools of statistical prediction.Prediction Statistics for Psychological Assessment, by... -
Rethinking Juvenile Justice by Elizabeth S. Scott
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.13What should we do with teenagers who commit crimes? Are they children whose offenses are the result of immaturity and circumstances, or are they in fact criminals?"Adult time for adult crime" has... -
International Perspectives on Violence Risk Assessment by Jay P. Singh 9780199386291
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £82.02With the world's prison population continuing to grow and the number of inpatient beds in psychiatric hospitals on the rise, establishing valid and reliable methods of identifying individuals who... -
Doing Justice, Preventing Crime by Michael Tonry
RRP: £35.49Booksplease Price: £24.14Punishment policies and practices in the United States today are unprincipled, chaotic, and much too often unjust. The financial costs are enormous. The moral cost is greater: countless individual... -
Risk Assessment in Forensic Practice by David Crighton
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.23Risk Assessment in Forensic Practice sets out a concise critical review of the way in which risk is assessed in current forensic practice. Setting the area in its historical context, this text... -
Constitutional Fictions: A Unified Theory of Constitutional Facts by David L. Faigman 9780195341270
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £73.97David Faigman's Constitutional Fictions is the first book-length examination of the role of fact-finding in constitutional cases. Because the role of facts is central to the day-to-day realities of... -
Risk Markers for Sexual Victimization and Predation in Prison by Janet I. Warren
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £52.08In 2003, the US Senate and Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), prompting a number of research projects that cumulatively began to broaden and deepen our understanding of this... -
Violence and Mental Illness: Rethinking Risk Factors and Enhancing Public Safety by Eric B. Elbogen 9781479801442
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £60.99Shows that the myth that mental illness is strongly linked to violence makes us all less safe Mass shootings have become a defining issue of our time. Whenever the latest act of newsworthy violence... -
Forensic Assessments in Criminal and Civil Law: A Handbook for Lawyers by Ronald Roesch 9780199766857
RRP: £142.50Booksplease Price: £97.51While the vast majority of criminal and civil lawyers must at some time come into contact with a forensic mental health evaluation, either when requested by their side or by opposing counsel, most do... -
The Future of Imprisonment by Michael Tonry 9780195161632
Booksplease Price: £64.76The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisoners has diminished, and prisons have become worse-a... -
Just Algorithms: Using Science to Reduce Incarceration and Inform a Jurisprudence of Risk by Christopher Slobogin
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.45Statistically-derived algorithms, adopted by many jurisdictions in an effort to identify the risk of reoffending posed by criminal defendants, have been lambasted as racist, de-humanizing, and... -
The Psychology of Stalking: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives by J. Reid Meloy 9780124905610
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £39.98The Psychology of Stalking is the first scholarly book on stalking ever published. Virtually every serious writer and researcher in this area of criminal psychopathology has contributed a chapter... -
University and Public Behavioral Health Organization Collaboration: Models for Success in Justice Contexts by Kirk Heilbrun 9780190052850
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £49.60Public behavioral health organizations serving those involved in the criminal justice system, such as problem-solving courts, correctional facilities, and parole or probation, often lack the... -
The Future of Imprisonment by Michael Tonry 9780195314106
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £26.60The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisoners has diminished, and prisons have gotten worse-a... -
The Sequential Intercept Model and Criminal Justice: Promoting Community Alternatives for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness by Patricia Griffin 9780199826759
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £66.22The number of individuals with severe mental illness in the criminal justice system is shockingly high. However, there is a wealth of research that shows that the traditional incarceration model is... -
Law and Mental Health, Second Edition: A Case-Based Approach Robert G. Meyer 9781462540471
Booksplease Price: £65.59Favored by instructors and students for its real-world focus and engaging style, this authoritative text on the interface of psychology and law has now been revised and expanded. Each chapter... -
Stalkers and their Victims by Paul E. Mullen
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £65.88Stalking has moved from being a novel area for study to become a core area of concern for mental health professionals, lawyers and other members of the criminal justice system. It has emerged as a... -
Advanced Introduction to Law and Psychology by Tom R. Tyler 9781839109720
Booksplease Price: £99.17Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be... -
Advanced Introduction to Law and Psychology Tom R. Tyler 9781839109744
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £23.53Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be... -
Psychological Evaluations for the Courts, Fourth Edition: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Lawyers by Gary B. Melton
Booksplease Price: £119.81Tens of thousands of readers have relied on this leading text and practitioner reference--now revised and updated--to understand the issues the legal system most commonly asks mental health... -
Sexual Predators: Society, Risk, and the Law by Robert Alan Prentky
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80Convicted sex offenders released from custody at the end of their criminal sentences pose a risk for re-offense. In many US states, Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) laws have been enacted that allow... -
Sexual Predators: Society, Risk, and the Law by Robert Alan Prentky 9780415870443
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £119.27Convicted sex offenders released from custody at the end of their criminal sentences pose a risk for re-offense. In many US states, Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) laws have been enacted that allow...