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Introduces students to the practice of forensic psychology by showing them how psychologists aid the legal system by serving as expert witnesses, criminal profilers, and trial consultants for jury selection and child custody hearings. Ch. 1. Forensic psychology : promises and problems Ch. 2. Forensic psycholoists : roles and responsibilities Ch. 3. Psychology and law enforcement : selection, training, and evaluation Ch. 4. Techniques of criminal investigation : profiling, psychological autopsies, hypnosis, and lie detection Ch. 5. Insanity and competency Ch. 6. From dangerous to risk assessment : violence, sexual offending, domestic violence, child abuse, and suicide Ch.7. "Syndrome" evidence : battered woman syndrome and rape trauma syndrome Ch. *. Child sexual abuse Ch. 9. Child custody and related decisions Ch. 10. Improving eyewitness identification procedures Ch. 11. Interrogations and confessions Ch. 12. Trial consultation : Jury selection, case preparation, and pretrial publicity Ch. 13. Discrimination Ch. 14. Sexual harassment Ch. 15. Death penalty trials and appeals Ch. 16. influencing public policy Includes bibliographical references and index. Forensic Psychiatry methods Forensic psychology Gerechtelijke psychologie Gerichtliche Psychologie Psychologie légale 347.066019 W93 2005 0534632254 NORSU-Dum 240214 20240819015743.0