This book brings together academics, practitioners, and experts in the field of forensic psychology to demonstrate the scope of the discipline and push its parameters. It goes beyond introductory texts to challenge perceptions, raise questions for research, and pose problems for practice, stimulating debate about how forensic psychology can aid the practice of justice. Divided into six sections, the book addresses investigation and prosecution, testimony and evidence, serious and persistent offending, treatment as intervention, intervention and prevention, and punishment and corrections.

Part 1: Introduction 1. Forensic Psychology: Some Concepts and Debates about Practice 1. Investigation and Prosecution 2 Miscarriages of Justice: What can we Learn? 3. The Interpretation and Utilisation of Offender Profiles: A Critical Review of 'Traditional' Approaches to Profiling 4. UK Police Interviews with Suspects: A Short Modern History 5. The Investigation and Prosecution of Rape Part 2: Testimony and Evidence 6. The Effect of Gender in the Courtroom 7. 'Without fear of favour, prejudice or ill will': Magistrates' Sentencing Decisions 8. Eliciting Evidence from Eyewitnesses for Court Proceedings 9. The Aging Eyewitness 10. Safeguarding Vulnerable and Intimidated Witnesses at Court: Are the 'Special Measures' Working? Part 3: Serious and Persistent Offending 11. Life-Course Persistent Offending 12. Stalking 13. Forensic Psychology and Terrorism 14. Aetiology of Genocide Part 4: Treatment as Intervention 15. Treatment of Offenders Classified as Having Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder 16. Anger Control Groupwork with Forensic Psychiatric Inpatients: Theories and Practical Applications 17. Developments in Treatment for Drug Misuse Offenders Part 5: Intervention and Prevention 18. Intimate Partner Violence: Current Issues in Definition and Interventions with Perpetrators in the UK 19. Effective Programmes to Prevent Delinquency 20. Parenting Projects, Justice and Welfare 21. The Challenge of Managing Prejudice and Hate in Offending Behaviours Part 6: Punishment and Corrections 22. What Role does Punishment Play in Deterring Crime? Practical, Theoretical and Ethical Perspectives 23. Women in Prison 24. Self-Harm in Prisons: Dominant Models and (Mis)understandings 25 Post-Corrections Reintegration: Prisoner Resettlement and Desistance from Crime 26. Psychology in the UK National Offender Management Service: Prisons and Probation Concluding Remarks