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Forensic Psychology Book Of The MonthWelcome to the forensic psychology book of the month page. I decided to launch this page on the website in response to a number of e-mails I received, so many thanks to all of you who got in touch. Whether you are new to forensic psychology, currently studying the topic, or consider yourself an expert in the field, each of the books featured as a forensic psychology book of the month will have something to offer you. They will also help further your understanding of the application of psychology within the criminal justice system and/or specific areas of forensic psychology theory and practice. If you would like to be alerted as soon as new additions are added to the forensic psychology book of the month page, simply enter your details below.
The following slideshow showcases all the forensic Psychology book of the month titles to date. A detailed review of each book can be found below.
April 2008Wrightsman's Psychology and the Legal System by Edith Greene, Kirk Heilbrun, William H. Fortune & Michael T. Nietzel
Book Description The author team for WRIGHTSMAN'S PSYCHOLOGY AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM, Sixth Edition combines complementary expertise, active research, writing careers, and real world experience (as consultants working within the legal system) to produce a comprehensive text that is unparalleled in scholarship and writing style. The authorship, research base and comprehensive coverage make this text popular with instructors and students. This text demonstrates the importance of psychology to understanding the legal system and the impact on individuals' everyday lives through the use of real cases and questions formed to create discussions of thesecases. See following link for more details: Wrightsman's Psychology and the Legal System March 2008Insanity: Murder, Madness, and the Law by Charles Patrick Ewing
Book Description In this book, Professor Ewing tackles the most complex of all legal/psychological issues: the insanity defense. It has been employed thousands of times, but there is still little understanding by lawyers and psychologists of its proper use. By analyzing some of the most well-known insanity cases in legal history, this book sheds light on the particularities of this defense; when it is successful, and when it is a sham. The casebook is an established format in which to illuminate legal questions, and yet no such book exists yet for this topic. Professor Ewing will examine 20 of the most influential and controversial insanity cases, from the recent D.C. sniper trial to Jack Ruby's failed plea in his trial for the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald. The cases are all carefully chosen to illuminate different ways in which the courts have handled this defense. Throughout, the author will add his own analysis of the cases and the reasons for the verdict. This book will be an excellent introduction to the subject for students of law or forensic psychology, and a concise overview of the issues at stake for professionals in the field. See following link for more details: Insanity: Murder, Madness, and the Law February 2008Ethical Practice in Forensic Psychology: A Systematic Model for Decision Making by Shane S. Bush, Mary A. Connell & Robert L. Denney
Book Description While most psychologists working in forensic contexts aspire to practice in a manner consistent with the highest ideals of ethical practice, they face numerous and complex concerns and may be unclear about how to apply the Ethics Code and Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Psychologists to their real-world issues. In Ethical Practice in Forensic Psychology, Shane S. Bush, Mary A. Connell, and Robert L. Denney explore common ethical dilemmas forensic psychologists may encounter in procedures including referrals, evaluations, documentation of findings and opinions, and testimony and termination. The authors present and apply a practical ethical-decision making model to timely case vignettes in the areas of civil, criminal, and child/family law to demonstrate how to approach the ethical challenges faced in forensic psychology; they also offer suggestions for addressing potential ethical misconduct by colleagues. This balanced and comprehensive volume will be a valuable addition to the library of forensic psychology students and trainees, and career forensic psychologists. See following link for more details: Ethical Practice in Forensic Psychology: A Systematic Model for Decision Making Visitors From The UK Click Here January 2008Beyond Common Sense: Psychological Science in the Courtroom Edited by Eugene Borgida & Susan T. Fiske
Book Description Beyond Common Sense addresses the many important and controversial issues that arise from the use of psychological and social science in the courtroom. Features original chapters written by some of the leading experts in the field of psychology and law including Elizabeth Loftus, Saul Kassin, Faye Crosby, Alice Eagly, Gary Wells, Louise Fitzgerald, Craig Anderson, and Phoebe Ellsworth. Each chapter identifies areas of scientific agreement and disagreement, and discusses how psychological science advances an understanding of human behavior beyond what is accessible by common sense. The issues addressed include eyewitness identification, gender stereotypes, repressed memories, Affirmative Action, and the death penalty. Commentaries written by 7 leading social science and law scholars discuss key legal and scientific themes that emerge from the science chapters and illustrate how psychological science is or can be used in the courts For more details and/or to get hold of this recommended forensic psychology book, just click on the following link. Beyond Common Sense: Psychological Science in the Courtroom December 2007Applying Psychology to Criminal Justice by David Carson et al
Book Description This essential volume, edited by four psychologists and a lawyer, argues that psychology can, and should be, applied more widely, particularly within the criminal justice system. Psychology and Law has made enormous strides during the last three decades. It now incorporates a much wider range of topics and has seen a marked international growth in specialist journals, books and conferences. The focus, until now, has been on research and academic membership rather than on practical applications and participation by practitioners, psychologists or lawyers, something this volume aims to change. This book develops the case for successfully applying psychology to law, and criminal justice in particular, by providing a rich range of applicable examples for development, now and in the future. In Applying Psychology to Criminal Justice psychologists are encouraged to challenge the currently relatively limited ambition and imagination of psychology and law by examining, amongst other aspects: This text is an important addition to the bookshelves of forensic, legal, clinical, and occupational psychologists, students, and criminal justice personnel: police, probation, prisons. Also essential reading for investigators, lawyers, law reform agencies, and those government departments concerned with home, constitutional, law reform agendas. See following link for more details: Applying Psychology to Criminal Justice November 2007Personality-Guided Forensic Psychology by Robert J. Craig
Book Description In Personality-Guided Forensic Psychology, Robert J. Craig discusses the hot area of forensic psychology, the crossroads of law and psychology, and illustrates how personality-guided assessment is a useful tool in the multiple arenas in which forensic psychologists are active: child custody evaluation, fitness for duty evaluations, personal injury, domestic violence, and many others. The volume begins with an overview of forensic psychology and the personality theories most relevant to forensic psychology. Chapters cover assessments ranging from relatively normal evaluations (police applicants and officers, custody and personal injury) to those in which severe pathology may come into play (domestic violence and homicide). The book offers a wealth of data on personality-test scores of chronic pain patients, patients who litigate, those who commit sexual or other physical abuse or murder, and others. Psychologists who serve as expert witnesses of friends of the court in legal proceedings, those choosing candidates for intervention programs, and students of forensic psychology will find this book indispensable. Volumes in the Personality-Guided Psychology series demonstrate the utility and relevance of assessing personality variables in an array of matters of interest to psychologists. Each book illustrates how a clinical syndrome or behavior can be understood in the context of the patient's unique pattern of overall trait dynamics. For more details and/or to get hold of this recommended forensic psychology book, just click on the following link. Personality-Guided Forensic Psychology (Personality Guided Psychology) October 2007Psychology and Law: An Empirical Perspective by Neil Brewer & Kipling D. Williams
Book Description From the initial investigation of a crime to the sentencing of an offender, many everyday practices within the criminal justice system involve complex psychological processes. This volume analyzes the processes involved in such tasks as interviewing witnesses, detecting deception, and eliciting eyewitness reports and identification from adults and children. Factors that influence decision making by jurors and judges are examined as well. Throughout, findings from experimental research are translated into clear recommendations for improving the quality of evidence and the fairness of investigative and legal proceedings. The book also addresses salient methodological questions and identifies key directions for future investigation. See following link for full details. See following link for more details: Psychology and Law: An Empirical Perspective Visitors From The UK Click Here September 2007Forensic Psychology: Emerging Topics and Expanding Roles by Alan M. Goldstein
Book Description Forensic Psychology: Emerging Topics and Expanding Roles is designed to present the current state of the field, in terms of law, ethics, research and practice. Reflecting the efforts of almost 50 expert contributors, this comprehensive reference provides a basis for conducting forensic mental health assessments consistent with the state of the field as it currently exists and the standard of care that is emerging. This must-have resource contains a coverage of: mainstream topics such as civil commitment, termination of parental rights, and federal sentencing evaluations, psycho-legal topics such as clergy and teacher sexual abuse, elder abuse, and end of life issues; the appropriate application of instruments frequently used in clinical psychology to address psycho-legal issues. Ideal for forensic mental health professionals, civil and criminal attorneys, and advanced students, "Forensic Psychology: Emerging Topics and Expanding Roles" is the definitive comprehensive reference in the field. "Alan Goldstein has his finger on the pulse of forensic psychology. He and his A-list contributors showcase a striking array of classic conundrums and budding courtroom controversies. Remarkably, their analysis is as deep as their coverage is broad. There are two or three works that simply have to be on the shelf of every forensic psychologist. This book is one of them." See following link for more details: Forensic Psychology: Emerging Topics and Expanding Roles Visitors From The UK Click Here August 2007Adoption: Uncharted Waters by by David Kirschner
Book Description & Excerpt In Adoption: Uncharted Waters, renowned psychologist David Kirschner, Ph.D., opens his case files showing the connection between adoption and murder. Kirschner has prepared psychological evaluations of numerous murderers, including "Casino Killer" Jeremy Strohmeyer, serial wife-and-mother poisoner Steve Catlin, and New York's most prolific serial killer, Joel Rifkin. There's also an in-depth chapter on adoptee and multiple murderer David Berkowitz -- the infamous "Son of Sam." The author takes no prisoners in telling his side of these famous cases. He rips into Dr. Barbara Kirwin, the defense witness who botched the Rifkin case, and slams famous attorney Alan Dershowitz, whose book "The Abuse Excuse" attacked Kirschner's "Adopted Child Syndrome." "Adoption is a lifelong process, not a one-time event," says the author, a staunch advocate of opening birth records, which he sees as a human and civil right of adoptees. Kirschner shows how secrecy, lies, and sealed records can lead adoptees into a fantasy life that sometimes explodes in deadly rage. The excerpt below describes the author's first encounter with Joel Rifkin, New York's most prolific serial killer. My First Encounter With Serial Killer Joel Rifkin by David Kirschner, Ph.D. With [Joel] Rifkin in custody and the number of murders he confessed to mounting [17 in all], the police knew that a media circus was in the offing when the doors were flung open to the press. It was not often that they had in tow a suspect who was confessing to crimes faster than they could count them, and so they were eager to keep the press at bay for as long as possible. However, Jeanne Rifkin, [Joel's adoptive mother], knew that something was amiss when she arrived home at around three o'clock that afternoon and found policemen swarming all over her yard and around her house. When she learned the reason for their presence, she phoned her estate lawyer, who then called Robert Sale, a highly regarded defense attorney. Sale notified the police and the district attorney's office that he was representing Rifkin and that all questioning was to cease immediately. He advised Jeanne that police would soon be arriving with a search warrant and she would have to let them look for evidence in any area of the house that was used or shared by Joel. He told his client that Joel was scheduled for an arraignment the following morning in Hempstead District Court. He would be charged with the second-degree murder of Tiffany Bresciani. Other charges would follow in Suffolk County and in other jurisdictions. Rifkin was finally paraded before the press that night when he was led from the station house to his jail cell. More than one reporter would note that he looked none the part of a maniacal serial killer. He did not have the crazed look in his eye of the Unabomber or Oklahoma City bombers or the overgrown beard and unruly mane of a Charles Manson. Even in his hooded jump suit, wearing chains on his feet and his hands manacled, Joel Rifkin looked like a shy, tight lipped accountant with his neat little mustache and broad, gold rimmed glasses. At the same time, police who were searching the Rifkin home turned up a large collection of mementos he had assembled to commemorate his conquests, items such as lace panties, pantyhose, lipstick containers, bracelets, and necklaces that were taken from the bodies of his victims. Not surprisingly, given his confession and the abundance of physical evidence that had been collected, Rifkin's attorney decided to go for an insanity defense. With his down-home kind of country style and low-key manner, Sale had been there before. He had won an acquittal by reason of insanity of a man who had killed and dismembered his wife and three children with a bayonet. He had also won a number of other difficult cases, including a successful entrapment defense for a New York City police officer and his brother who were caught as they tried to pull off an armed robbery, and the dismissal of armed robbery charges for Malcolm X's bodyguards. Sale had spent eight years at the Legal Aid Society in Nassau County, during which time he put together a string of sixteen straight trial victories, a feat that has never been equaled, according to a senior trial lawyer with the society. He was elevated to bureau chief in charge of felony cases at Legal Aid before entering private practice. He would need all of that and a bit more in defense of Rifkin, however, for no serial killer had ever been found not guilty by reason of insanity. Preparing Rifkin's Insanity Defense I first read about the Rifkin case while I was on vacation in Sante Fe. It captured my attention because Rifkin was precisely the type of subject -- an adoptee killer -- I had been studying and he came from my immediate Long Island neighborhood. Soon after I returned from Sante Fe, Sale contacted me, told me of his plans to mount an insanity defense, and gave me psychological reports from Joel's childhood and teenage years in East Meadow. Early in my career I had worked in the East Meadow school district, and two of the reports Sale gave me were written by close friends and school psychologists I had worked with -- Edna Dublirer in the junior high school and Norm Pollens in the high school. I was especially interested to note that both reports stated that Joel had been troubled by memory problems, a finding that could be crucial to an insanity defense based on dissociative identity disorder, commonly referred to as multiple personality. During my discussions with Sale, I also discovered that I knew the psychotherapist, Joseph Nemovicher, who had treated Joel in twenty-five sessions from May 1977 to January 1979. As it developed, Nemovicher had documented Joel's learning difficulties and memory problems but had never considered the effects of adoption on his psychological profile. In my first face-to-face meeting with Sale (which, as it turned out, would also be my last) I told him that the reports from Joel's school psychologist would be valuable in supporting his defense strategy since they documented a pre-existing childhood history of emotional disturbance, mental illness, and severe memory loss. I also suggested getting additional reports from neurologists that might reveal some organic brain condition that could contribute to a mental-status defense. Most critically I recommended that we begin a search for his birth mother immediately. A genetic predisposition toward violence has been documented with growing authority by a number of researchers, most notably Dr. Sarnoff Mednick, who has been studying the relationship between adoption, genetics, criminality, and violence in Denmark, where precise and thorough adoption records are kept. I made arrangements to meet with Joel and do a thorough psychological evaluation. Over the course of the next twenty months we met for more than 110 hours, and the result was perhaps the most complete psychological profile of a serial killer ever developed. My First Meeting With Rifkin My first meeting with Joel took place on September 9, 1993, just over two months after his arrest. His recollection of events and how he felt was still fresh at that time, uncolored by subsequent tellings and retellings, by accounts rendered by others involved in the case, and perhaps by suggestions of how to frame his story for the optimum legal effect. I met with him in the Nassau County Correctional Center (NCCC) just a few blocks from his alma mater, East Meadow High School. Coincidentally, East Meadow High is the school district where I had worked as a young psychologist. A maximum security institution, NCCC was a forbidding granite structure that had recently been enlarged, renovated and modernized so that it now looked like a high tech control center with banks of TV monitors and video cameras recording every move in every corridor. When I walked through the thick steel front door, I was asked to present my credentials and authorization letter from an attorney. The correction officers on duty had me empty my pockets, searched me with metal detectors, and finally led me through a maze of corridors. As each metal door clanged shut behind me I felt a sense of foreboding that it might be easier to enter than it would be to exit. My destination was a small cubicle, eight-by-eight feet, that was glass enclosed and looked out onto a large, central visitors' area where prisoners met with their families. I waited for about ten minutes, seated at a small metal table, with a writing pad open to take notes as we talked. Finally Rifkin was brought in. Rifkin initially appeared to be timid, passive, and somewhat distracted as he sat across from me, looking down or off into space, rarely making eye contact. He was, however, not at all shy about talking. It was apparent that he enjoyed being the center of attention, people hanging on his every word. In fact, Rifkin's problem was not talking, but listening. As our sessions continued, I would often say to him, "Joel, shut up and listen for a change." What struck me most about him in that first meeting was the *duality* of his nature, abruptly shifting from a timid, passive, nonagressive type to an assertive, egocentric, grandiose personality. I was also interested to note his failure to display any real emotion. He never came across as angry or hostile, and certainly not as violent. Even when he described the seventeen gory "events," as he referred to them, he showed no emotion -- neither rage nor regret nor remorse. It was as if he were describing acts committed by someone other than himself. Copyright ©2007 by David Kirschner. All Rights Reserved. See following link for more details: Visitors From The UK Click Here July 2007The Criminal Mind: A Writer's Guide to Forensic Psychology by Katherine Ramsland
Editorial Review by David Pitt From Booklist An extremely informative, very useful guide to understanding and writing about forensic psychology. Many writers, the author suggests, write about forensic psychologists without really appreciating what they do or how they do it. The author cites numerous examples from fiction to illustrate her points, showing how Thomas Harris made things seem a little too slick in The Silence of the Lambs or how James Patterson misunderstood some fundamentals in Along Came a Spider. She also uses several well known cases histories; Charles Starkweather, Lizzie Borden, Dan White, to illustrate various psychological disorders and their diagnoses. Aspiring thriller writers should pay particular attention to the discussion of the relationship between psychology and the law, including the nature of insanity defenses and the treatment of offenders. Ramsland's mixture of fact and fiction is extremely helpful: she begins a discussion with something we recognize, like an episode from Law & Order, and then segues gently into more unfamiliar territory. The book gives budding writers, and anyone else with an interest in this subject, a solid grounding in the history, terminology, and techniques of forensic psychology. See following link for more details: The Criminal Mind: A Writer's Guide to Forensic Psychology Visitors From The UK Click Here June 2007Evaluating Competencies: Forensic Assessments & Instruments by Thomas Grisso
Book Description This book offers a conceptual model for understanding the nature of legal competencies. The model is interpreted to assist mental health professionals in designing and performing assessments for legal competencies defined in criminal and civil law, and to guide research that will improve the practice of evaluations for legal competencies. A special feature is the book's evaluative review of specialized forensic assessment instruments. Application of the assessment model and reviews of instruments are provided for six areas of legal competence: See following link for more details: Evaluating Competencies: Forensic Assessments and Instruments (Perspectives in Law & Psychology) Visitors From The UK Click Here May 2007Geographic Profiling by Kim Rossmo
Book Description As any police officer who has ever walked a beat or worked a crime scene knows, the street has its hot spots, patterns, and rhythms: drug dealers work their markets, prostitutes stroll their favorite corners, and burglars hit their favorite neighborhoods. But putting all the geographic information together in cases of serial violent crime (murder, rape, arson, bombing, and robbery) is highly challenging. Just ask the homicide detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department who hunted the Hillside Stranglers, or law enforcement officers in Louisiana who tracked the brutal South Side rapist. Geographic Profiling introduces and explains this cutting-edge investigative methodology in-depth. Used to analyze the locations of a connected series of crimes to determine the most likely area of offender residence, geographic profiling allows investigators and law enforcement officers to more effectively manage information and focus their investigations. This extensive and exhaustive work explains geographic profiling theories and principles, and includes an extensive review of the literature and research in the areas of criminal profiling, forensic behavioral science, serial violent crime, environmental criminology, and the geography of crime. For investigators and police officers deployed in the field, as well as criminal analysts, Geographic Profiling is a "must have" reference. See following link for more details: Visitors From The UK Click Here April 2007Adult Eyewitness Testimony by D.F Ross, J.D Read & M.P Toglia
Book Description Adult Eyewitness Testimony provides an overview of current empirical research on eyewitness testimony and identification accuracy, covering both theory and application. The volume is organized to address three important issues: First, what are the cognitive, social, and physical factors that influence the accuracy of eyewitness reports? Second, how should lineups be constructed and verbal testimony be taken to improve the chances of obtaining accurate information? And third, whose testimony should be believed? Are there differences between accurate and inaccurate witnesses, and can jurors make such a distinction? Adult Eyewitness Testimony is crucial reading for memory researchers, as well as police officers, judges, lawyers, and other members of the judicial system. It will also be of interest to advanced undergraduates and graduate-level courses in applied social or cognitive psychology, criminal justice and forensics. See following link for more details: Adult Eyewitness Testimony: Current Trends and Developments Visitors From The UK Click Here March 2007Handbook of Psychopathy By Christopher J. Patrick
Editorial Review With contributions from foremost experts, this authoritative handbook provides a state-of-the-science review of current knowledge on the psychopathic personality. Coverage includes major theoretical models; conceptual and definitional questions; assessment approaches; and etiological pathways, ranging from family and environmental factors to genes, neurotransmitters, and brain systems. Manifestations of psychopathy in specific populations are addressed, as are links to salient problem behaviors such as aggression, substance abuse, sexual offending, and recidivism. Clinical and legal issues are also examined in depth. Seamlessly edited, each major thematic section concludes with a summary chapter that integrates the findings presented and highlights key questions for future research. See following link for more details: February 2007Criminal Profiling: Principles and Practice
Editorial Review Criminal Profiling: Principles and Practice provides a compendium of original scientific research on constructing a criminal profile for crimes that are not readily resolvable by conventional police investigative methods. Leading profiling expert Richard N. Kocsis, PhD, utilizes a distinct approach referred to as Crime Action Profiling (CAP), a technique that has its foundations in the disciplinary knowledge of forensic psychology. The initial four chapters examine the skills, accuracy, components, and processes surrounding the construction of a criminal profile. The next two chapters focus on CAP research, the methods developed for the profiling of violent crimes and describing a systematic method for the interpretation and use of the CAP models. The subsequent three chapters canvass the respective CAP studies undertaken for crimes of serial rape, serial/sexual murder, and serial arson. An explanation for how each of the models is developed is also given. The final chapters of the book are devoted to the geographical analysis of crime patterns and to a discussion of the format conventions and procedural guidelines for developing a criminal profile. Offering a scientifically grounded method for the construction of a criminal profile, Criminal Profiling: Principles and Practice provides law enforcement personnel, forensic psychologists and psychiatrists, criminologists, and forensic investigators with a step-by-step, practical guide for understanding and applying CAP techniques for the construction of a criminal profile in a systematic and replicable manner. "Crime Action Profiling, placed within the framework of scientific psychology encompassing research, theory, and practical application sets this new book apart from all others." (Louis B. Schlesinger Professor of Forensic Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice). See following link for more details: Criminal Profiling: Principles and Practice January 2007The Handbook of Forensic Psychology
Editorial Review This is a fully-revised and updated version of the top academic work in forensic psychology. Focussed mainly on the practical aspects of forensics, this volume provides all readers need to know to be effective practioners. Detailed sections cover both civil and criminal forensic practice; forensic report writing; treating mental illness in the incarcerated; and ethical issues. Contributors are the best-known and most respected practitioners in the field from the US and Canada. All chapters are completely revised from the previous edition, including 6 which have new authors. Forensic psychology is one of the fastest-growing specialties in the field. Its practitioners are able to avoid managed care and structured settings, and they often focus on assessment, rather than long-term treatment of clients. With the growing public interest in all things forensic, most graduate programs in psychology have added at least one course in forensic psychology over the past few years; and more established professionals are entering the field every day. See following link for more details: The Handbook of Forensic Psychology Visitors From The UK Click Here December 2006Forensic Psychology
Editorial Review Introducing a forensic psychology text written from the scientist-practitioner perspective. This text introduces the reader to the practice of forensic psychology. Forensic psychology, as defined by the American Psychological Association, is the application of clinical specialties to the legal arena. The emphasis of the book is to help students understand the practice of forensic psychology along with career opportunities in this rapidly evolving specialty. Included are several chapters on the area of legal psychology. Areas covered in forensic psychology include a chapter on the ethics of psychology and law, an extensive chapter on assessment in forensic practice, criminal responsibility and competency evaluations, child custody evaluations, police psychology, correctional psychology, and evaluations of psychological injury. Areas covered in the specialty of legal psychology include trial consultation, criminal investigative psychology (detection of deception, criminal profiling, psychological autopsies and use of hypnosis) and eyewitness memory and recovered memories. A final chapter identifies emerging trends in the area of forensic psychology. Instructor's ancillary materials are also available, including Power Point slides to accompany each chapter, a test bank with over 600 multiple choice, true/false questions, review questions for each chapter and sample syllabi complete with learning objectives for each chapter. Notable Features Special Note I have a copy of this excellent book myself. I receive numerous e-mails from aspiring forensic psychologists asking a range of questions relating to career paths, applied practice, training, potential earnings etc, and this always is the book I recommend for those wanting definitive answers. See following link for more details: Visitors From The UK Click Here NOVEMBER 2006Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work
Editorial Review Let's say you're about to hire somebody for a position in your company. Your corporation wants someone who's fearless, charismatic, and full of new ideas. Candidate X is charming, smart, and has all the right answers to your questions. Problem solved, right? Maybe not. We'd like to think that if we met someone who was completely without conscience -- someone who was capable of doing anything at all if it served his or her purposes -- we would recognize it. In popular culture, the image of the psychopath is of someone like Hannibal Lecter or the BTK Killer. But in reality, many psychopaths just want money, or power, or fame, or simply a nice car. Where do these psychopaths go? Often, it's to the corporate world. Researchers Paul Babiak and Robert Hare have long studied psychopaths. Hare, the author of Without Conscience, is a world-renowned expert on psychopathy, and Babiak is an industrial-organizational psychologist. Recently the two came together to study how psychopaths operate in corporations, and the results were surprising. They found that it's exactly the modern, open, more flexible corporate world, in which high risks can equal high profits, that attracts psychopaths. They may enter as rising stars and corporate saviors, but all too soon they're abusing the trust of colleagues, manipulating supervisors, and leaving the workplace in shambles. Snakes in Suits is a compelling, frightening, and scientifically sound look at exactly how psychopaths work in the corporate environment: what kind of companies attract them, how they negotiate the hiring process, and how they function day by day. You'll learn how they apply their "instinctive" manipulation techniques -- assessing potential targets, controlling influential victims, and abandoning those no longer useful -- to business processes such as hiring, political command and control, and executive succession, all while hiding within the corporate culture. It's a must read for anyone in the business world, because whatever level you're at, you'll learn the subtle warning signs of psychopathic behavior and be able to protect yourself and your company -- before it's too late. See following link for more details: Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work Visitors From The UK Click Here OCTOBER 2006Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology
Editorial Review In recent years, the public has become increasingly fascinated with the criminal mind. Television series centered on courtroom trials, criminal investigations, and forensic psychology are more popular than ever. More and more people are interested in the American system of justice and the individuals who experience it firsthand. Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology gives you an inside view of 20 of the highest profile legal cases of the last 50 years. Drs. Ewing and McCann take you "behind the scenes" of each of these cases, some involving celebrities like Woody Allen, Mike Tyson, and Patty Hearst, and explain the impact they had on the fields of psychology and the law. Many of the cases in this book, whether involving a celebrity client or an ordinary person in an extraordinary circumstance, were determined in part by the expert testimony of a psychologist or other mental health professional. Psychology has always played a vital role in so many aspects of the American legal system, and these fascinating trials offer insight into many intriguing psychological issues. In addition to expert testimony, some of the issues discussed in this entertaining and educational book include the insanity defense, brainwashing, criminal profiling, capital punishment, child custody, juvenile delinquency, and false confessions. In Minds on Trial, the authors skillfully convey the psychological and legal drama of each case, while providing important and fresh professional insights. Mental health and legal professionals, as well as others with an interest in psychology and the law will have a hard time putting this scholarly, yet readable book down. See following link for more details: Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology Visitors From The UK Click Here Looking For Something In Particular? Try Google Search Go From Forensic Psychology Book Of The Month Back To The Home Page
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