Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychopathy
This comprehensive handbook synthesizes the rapidly growing research base on child and adolescent psychopathy: its nature, causes, development, assessment, and treatment. The editors and contributors...
View ArticleNeuropsychological Assessment of Work-Related Injuries
Unique in its focus, this book provides an evidence-based framework for assessing work-related neurological and psychological injuries. Meeting a key need, chapters address a range of problems...
View ArticleSecond Time Foster Child
Second Time Foster Child links parents locked into a custody relinquishment nightmare with other historically oppressed peoples. Child welfare attorneys, judges, and child welfare professionals will...
View ArticleSerial Killers
<p>Francesca Biagi-Chai's book - a translation from the French of Le Cas Landru - tackles the issue of criminal responsibility in the case of serial killers, and other 'mad' people who are...
View ArticleSerial Killers
<p>Francesca Biagi-Chai's book - a translation from the French of Le Cas Landru - tackles the issue of criminal responsibility in the case of serial killers, and other 'mad' people who are...
View ArticleLaw and the Disordered: An Explanation in Mental Health, Law, and Politics
How does our legal and mental health system handle the mentally disordered? In this book, George C. Klein presents a revealing survey that explores the system of processing prisoners and patients from...
View ArticleLaw and the Disordered: An Explanation in Mental Health, Law, and Politics
How does our legal and mental health system handle the mentally disordered? In this book, George C. Klein presents a revealing survey that explores the system of processing prisoners and patients from...
View ArticleClinical Practice of Forensic Neuropsychology: An Evidence-Based Approach
Written by a foremost expert in the field, this hands-on, evidence-based guide describes how to conduct a comprehensive forensic neuropsychological evaluation and provide expert testimony. All steps...
View ArticleIn Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics
The disturbing, forgotten history of America's experiment with eugenics.
View ArticleSafeguarding Vulnerable Adults and the Law
The book focuses on how many areas of law apply to vulnerable adults, bringing together an extensive body of case law to illustrate this. Also covered is how local authorities and the NHS may...
View ArticleSexual Offending and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Management in the...
Sexual Offending and Mental Health draws together theoretical, clinical and mental health issues for the range of professionals working with sex offenders and those who have behaved in sexually...
View ArticleQ&A Medical Law 2013-2014
<p>Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in an exam situation. Each book contains up to fifty...
View ArticleCoercive Care: Rights, Law and Policy
There has been much debate about mental health law reform and mental capacity legislation in recent years with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also having a major impact on...
View ArticlePsychiatric Rights (Rites?)
Involuntary mental hospitalization is a political act, based on the misguided need of the state to control its
View ArticleLaw and Mental Health: A Case-Based Approach
This volume presents classic and contemporary legal cases that have set important precedents related to psychological and mental health issues in criminal and civil proceedings; the role of...
View ArticleMental Health Imprisonment: One Case
#1 - You shouldn't need a defense attorney to defend you from your defense attorney #2 - Psychiatry is not so much practiced as it is prosecuted #3 - Six teenagers, high on drugs and armed with...
View ArticleThe Patient Abuse and Neglect of Our Vulnerable Adults
Patient abuse and neglect is a daily occurrence in our nation's medical and psychiatric hospitals, nursing homes, group homes, and other care facilities. But it is not just in institutional settings...
View ArticleInside the Criminal Mind: Revised and Updated Edition
Long-held myths defining the sources of and cures for crime are shattered in this ground-breaking book--and a chilling profile of today's criminal emerges.
View ArticleThe Unjust Justice: Getting the Truth Out
<p>In his late teens, Henry Carmel was stricken with schizophrenia-a life-altering mental illness characterized by tormenting voices, impaired judgment, and acute paranoia. In 1996, Henry was...
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