Bad psychology : how forensic psychology left science behind /
Robert A. Forde challenges widely held yet flawed views in the field of applying psychology to criminality. Here, he exposes the lack of evidence behind current policy and practice, vested commercial and professional interests which maintain the status quo, and demands alternative approaches from th...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; Philadelphia, PA :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2018
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Who does he think he is?
- How psychologists work
- Treatment needs assessment : who needs it?
- Risk assessment : coffee cans and crystal balls
- Formulation : when "I don't know" is the correct answer, all other answers are wrong
- Intervention : a suitable case for treatment?
- Evaluation : what works and how would we know?
- Communication : who's listening?
- The parole process : who goes home?
- Heuristics and biases : how can we be so stupid?
- Are we hardwired for poor judgement?
- The future of forensic (and maybe other) psychology
- Leaving the science behind
- Postscript
- References.
