Forensic work occurs across the criminal justice sector and the legal and health professions and intersects with work in a range of areas, such as child protection, family welfare, mental health, offending, disability and addictions, family violence programmes, juvenile justice and sexual assault centres.

Introducing the Forensic Domain, Rosemary Sheehan and James Ogloff Part one: the forensic domain 1. Practising in the forensic context: Cross-disciplinary perspectives, Rosemary Sheehan 2. Implementing the risk paradigm: evidence and values, Andrew Carroll 3. Beyond the risk paradigm: maintaining the place of the client in criminal justice interventions, Chris Trotter 4. Risk management and challenges for workers and services, Gloria Kirwan 5. Sexual offending, Chris Lennings, Rima Nasr, Katie Seidler and Emma Collins Part two: Care, control and community 6. Neoliberalism and the criminalisation of welfare, Paul Michael Garrett 7. Solution-focussed justice in the time of 'Law and Order', Jelena Popovic 8. From care to the community: leaving forensic care and the challenge of inclusion, Grant Burkitt , Daniel Kinston, Ronan McLoughlin 9. Policing young people with mental illness, Stuart Thomas 10. Child sexual abuse: giving protection and turning away from future offending, James Ogloff Part three: Justice, welfare and mental health 11. Significant harm: the application of the law in practice with vulnerable children, Anna Gupta 12. Policing, custody and mental illness, Ian Cummins 13. Mental health and the courts, Ronald Francis 14. Vulnerability and resilience in the criminal justice system, Peta Barry Part four: Rehabilitation and recovery 15. The recovery environment: health, homelessness and criminal justice, William Holt and Jacqueline Blatt 16. Mental health services in prison, Sheila Howitt and Lindsay Thomson 17. After prison: managing re-integration, mental health and desistance from offending, Flora Matheson, Amanda Brazil and Pamela Forrester 18. Substance abuse and offending: risk factors and addiction recovery, David Best and Michael Savic 19. Balancing legal, cultural and human rights with the forensic paradigm, Rosemary Sheehan and James Ogloff.