Product Description: Greater Understanding, Better Evaluations Today's increasingly sophisticated psychological and neuropsychological assessments allow for greater understanding and evaluations in forensic psychology. By integrating discussions of modern psychological and neuropsychological tests with extant civil and criminal cases, this book presents a unique resource for insight into the impact of modern behavioral science on the legal system...read more

Product Description: An essential resource for anyone working against terrorism in any form it may take! Written for threat assessment professionals in the post-9/11 era, this timely book will help you understand the motivation to commit acts of terror, the thinking patterns common to many terrorists, the psychology of Muslim fundamentalists, methods for predicting the likelihood of chemical/biological attacks, and a great deal more...read more

Product Description: Which individuals are apt to commit a single violent act? Who among them will commit more such acts? What degree of certainty can judges, parole boards, mental health institutions, and the general public hold in terms of violence predictions by psychologists and psychiatrists? What level of confidence, beyond the level of pure chance, can evaluators have in their own predictions of dangerousness? Harold V...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: NOMINATED FOR THE MANFRED S. GUTTMACHER AWARD BY THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATIONAlthough advances in clinical/forensic theory and technology continue to elucidate our understanding of deception analysis, the current state of the art is crude in most applications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Collective Violence: Effective Strategies for Assessing and Intervening in Fatal Group and Institutional Aggression explores the variety of groups and institutions explicitly committed to destructive aggression. Topics addressed include population groups which pursue their own specialized forms of violence against others; culture-infecting and polluting themes which desensitize citizens and societal institutions to deadly force and preparations for catastrophic violence; and the role of our scientific establishment and the media in promoting culture-wide themes that justify, legalize, and reify violence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Lethal Violence: A Sourcebook on Fatal Domestic, Acquaintance and Stranger Aggression applies the lethal violence sequence analysis to a wide-ranging array of fatal aggression, resulting in a multitude of observations and principles of violence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Lethal Violence 2000: A Sourcebook on Fatal Domestic Acquaintance; Stranger Aggression [Hardcover] Harold V. Hall (Editor)

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