Forensic Psychology - Huss, Matthew T.

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Résumé :

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xiii

1 What Is Forensic Psychology? An Introduction 1

What Is Forensic Psychology? 1

Is this forensic psychology? 1

The origin of forensic psychology 3

Our definition of forensic psychology 3

History of forensic psychology 4

Major Areas of Forensic Psychology 5

Structure of the legal system 7

The Relationship of the Law and Psychology 9

The conflict between psychology and law 10

Education and Training in Forensic Psychology 10

How do I become a forensic psychologist? 10

Careers in forensic psychology 14

2 Assessment, Treatment, and Consultation in Forensic Psychology 16

Forensic Assessment 16

Important tasks in forensic assessment 17

Core concepts in assessment: Reliability and validity 18

Distinguishing therapeutic assessment from forensic assessment 18

Methods and procedures: Interviewing 19

Methods and procedures: Psychological testing 22

Archival information 25

The use of written reports in forensic assessments and guidelines 26

Treatment in Forensic Contexts 28

Who are we treating? 29

Types of treatment 31

Success of offender programs 31

Successful offender programs 32

Forensic Consultation 33

3 Expert Testimony and the Role of an Expert 36

History of the Expert Witness 37

Admissibility of Expert Testimony 38

Frye standard 38

The rest of the Daubert trilogy 41

Challenges to Expert Testimony 42

Cross- examination 42

Opposing expert 42

Judicial instructions 42

Factors that influence expert witness credibility 43

Criticisms of Expert Testimony 44

Taking over the courtroom 44

Ultimate issue testimony 44

Corruption of science 45

Bias in Human Decision- Making and Forensic Practice 47

Ethics of the Expert 48

Competence 49

Informed consent and confidentiality 50

Financial arrangements 50

Multiple relationships 51

Syndrome Evidence: Controversial Area of Expert Testimony 51

Profile and syndrome evidence 51

4 Psychopathy 55

The Nature of the Psychopath 55

A popular operationalization of psychopathy: The Psychopathy Checklist 56

Use of the PCL- R in the practice of forensic psychology: Field research 60

The Relationship of Criminal Behavior and Violence to Psychopathy 61

General violence and criminal behavior 61

Sexual violence 63

Violence in civil psychiatric patients 63

Violence among intimate partner violence perpetrators 64

What Else Do We Know about Psychopathy? 64

Interpersonal- affective aspects of psychopathy 64

Cognitive and learning deficits (information processing) associated with psychopathy 66

Biological basis for psychopathy 67

Treatment of psychopathy 68

Special Groups and Psychopathy 69

Women 69

Ethnic and cross- cultural issues 71

Children and adolescents 71

Legal and Ethical Issues Involving Psychopathy 72

Capital sentencing and the use of psychopathy 73

5 Violence Risk Assessment 75

Nature of Violence and Violence Risk Assessment 75

Defining violence 75

Violence as a choice 76

Legal Realities of Violence Risk Assessments 77

The Evolution of Risk Assessment 79

Early history of risk assessment 79

Clinical, Actuarial, and Structured Risk Assessments 80

Clinical assessments of violence 80

Actuarial measures of violence 81

Structured professional judgments 84

Risk and Protective Factors 8...

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