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A comprehensive overview of forensic psychology as it applies to the civil and criminal justice systems in the UK, which draws on the international evidence base, with contributions from leading international experts

• Designed to cover the British Psychological Society training syllabus in forensic psychology, meeting the needs of postgraduate students
• Chapters are each written by leading international experts, and provide the latest research and evidence base practice for students
• Ideal for qualified practitioners as a resource for continuing professional development
• The text is written in a style designed to support and direct students, and includes specific learning aids and guides to further study
• Linked to an online site providing additional learning materials, offering further aid to students

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Edited by the Head of Psychology for HM Prison Service and the National Probation Service, and fully updated to take account of structural changes within these Services, Psychology in Prisons takes an in-depth look at the work of psychologists in prisons strengthened by in-depth consideration of diversity issues such as age, gender, socio-economic group, sexuality and ethnicity.

• Focuses exclusively on the prison environment and prioritises practical information for practitioners working in prisons
  
• Contextualises psychological work in prisons, and covers evidence based practice in key areas such as drug misuse and sex offending
  
• Focused on the needs of the client group
  
• Features a section on the practicalities of psychological assessment and interventions

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Over the past decade forensic psychology has grown rapidly as a subject, with an increasing number of forensic psychologists under training and working in demanding roles in prisons, secure training facilities, and high, medium and low security healthcare facilities as well as other parts of the criminal justice system.This "Dictionary" is part of a new series of "Dictionaries" covering key aspects of criminal justice and the criminal justice system, designed to meet the needs of both students and practitioners.It contains approximately 300 entries (of between 500 and 1500 words) on key terms and concepts arranged alphabetically. These entries are contributed by leading academic and practising forensic psychologists. It is designed to meet the needs of both students and practitioners. The entries includes summary definition, main text and key texts and sources takes full account of the criteria and syllabus for the BPS-approved Diploma in Forensic Psychology and MSc in Forensic Psychology. The book is edited by leading authorities in the forensic psychology field. ... Read more

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The Handbook of Psychology for Forensic Practioners discusses some of the ways in which psychological research and methods can be applied by a wide variety of professional groups working with offenders. By giving a fuller understanding of how psychology can contribute to our understanding of offending, the book concentrates on the assessment of risk in forensic settings and the interventions designed to reduce risk in violent and sexual offenders. ... Read more

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This book serves as a route map for those interested in the application of psychology to the work of probation services. Starting with an outline of the strategic framework for applied psychological services across probation and prisons, the book then gives an up-to-date picture of some key emerging areas of applied psychological practice in probation settings, including: court work, mental health, working with sex offenders, risk assessment, group work, multi-agency public protection panels, lifer assessments, domestic violence work, and suicide and intentional self-injury.

The book can be effectively used alongside Graham Towl’s Psychology in Prisons (BPS Blackwell, 2003). ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Richard Hughes "Rick" Trainor FRHS FKC (born 31 December 1948) is the current Principal of King's College London. Trainor was educated at Calvert Hall College High School, and graduated from Brown University with a BA summa cum laude in American Civilization, and subsequently earned MA's from Princeton University and from Merton College, Oxford, before completing his D.Phil. in 1981 at Nuffield College, Oxford entitled "Authority and social structure in an industrialized area: a study of three Black Country towns, 1840-1890". He is a former Rhodes Scholar. He is a member of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the Athenaeum Club. He is also an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and Trinity College of Music, and a member of the Anglo-American Fulbright Commission. Trainor was awarded an honorary knighthood (KBE) in June 2010, for services to higher education. The award is honorary due to his American nationality. He is married to Dr Marguerite Dupree, an academic historian of medicine currently at Glasgow University, with two children, Richard and Meg. Trainor was formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich (2000-2004) and, before that, Senior Vice-Principal of the University of Glasgow. He became Principal of King's College London in 2004, where he is also Professor of Social History. He is a former President of Universities UK, serving between 2007 and 2009. In response to actual and further anticipated cuts in public sector funding in 2009/2010, Trainor introduced plans for 'financial and academic sustainability' and 'strategic disinvestment' at King's College London that have provoked letters of protest written to Trainor by pro... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1825837 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, Denys Page, David Crighton, Joseph Beaumont, John Pearson, Alan Cottrell, John Worthington, Humphrey Gower, William Beale, Richard Sterne, E. M. W. Tillyard, Edmund Boldero, William Capon, Philip Yonge, Robert Mair, List of Masters of Jesus College, Cambridge, Roger Andrewes, John Duport. Excerpt:Sir Alan Howard Cottrell , FRS (born 17 July 1919) is a British metallurgist and physicist . He received his BSc degree from the University of Birmingham in 1939 and a PhD for research on welding in 1942. He joined the staff as a lecturer at Birmingham, being made professor in 1949, and transforming the teaching of the department by emphasizing modern concepts of solid state physics . In 1955 he moved to A.E.R.E. Harwell , to become Deputy Head of Metallurgy under Monty Finniston . From 1958 to 1965 he was Goldsmiths' Professor of Metallurgy at Cambridge University , and a fellow of Christ's College . He then worked for the government in various capacities, ultimately as Chief Scientific Adviser from 1971 to 1974, before becoming Master of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1973 to 1986, and Vice-Chancellor of the University in 1977-1979. Sir Alan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1955, and won its Hughes Medal in 1961, the James Douglas Gold Medal in 1974 and the Copley Medal (the Royal Society's highest award) in 1996. He was knighted in 1971. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . Selected Books References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) Government offices A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn (b. July 25, 1937 (1937-07-25) in Stockton-on-Tees ) is a British archaeologist , noted for his work on radiocarbon dating , the prehistory of languages , archaeog... ... Read more

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The four stories in this collection take readers into some of the smaller worlds that make up the larger whole. An odd and unenthusiastic door to door salesman becomes a bit too enmeshed in the neighborhood where he's working. The last request of a wealthy woman results in numerous broken laws and health violations. A young girl finds her own unique place in the cult to which she and her family belong. And two homeless boys learn how to make a will. Each story examines the horror and humor of its character's lives, and follows to see how far those elements go. ... Read more

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Great read: Choking, Aging. Hanging. Train!
This book is great...excellent $3 investment. The setting of each story plays as much of a role as the characters and plot, resulting in stories that coalesce and flow from beginning to end. There's some very fine writing going on here. Weible's prose captures some deeply moving moments and the stories are entertaining throughout. There are a few points where it seems like the author couldn't decide whether to be serious or satirical and ends up with something muddled between the two, as well as a few points that are a little maudlin, but overall this is a solid collection and an enjoyable read.
Jackie
Laguna Niguel, CA

Good purchase!
It took me a while to put my finger on what, if anything, connected these four stories.A lot of short story collections stick to a theme, or may all be set in one specific region or state.Weible's stories seemed all over the map at first, but after reading them I realized that where he (I wasn't sure about the gender of the name, but I went to his website and he is definitely a he) shows consistency is in coming up with stories that skirt the border of unbelievable without actually crossing it and carry a strain of dark humor through them.

For example, Zoar, (possibly the strongest story in this collection) is about a young girl whose family slowly becomes involved with a cult and how she then begins manipulating the beliefs of the people around her for reasons of her own.The story takes place among people on the fringes of regular society.Viking Funeral (my personal favorite) is about a nouveau riche family deciding how to handle their mother's request in her will to have her remains placed in a boat and burned.A Reading of Wills is told from the point of view of a homeless child.Phone Man is about a door to door salesman trying to disengage from the world through his job.The people in these stories are all completely plausible, but the stories are told in such a way as to render their experiences slightly extraordinary.

The last one I mentioned, Phone Man, is the best example of the overall theme I found throughout the book.The main character has a banal, lousy job (he sells long distance service door to door in an impoverished urban neighborhood) that ends up going to a dangerous extreme.It's the main character's actions that gradually and believably push the ordinary to the brink of chaos.That's what this book does consistently and well: it follows the ordinary to the extreme.
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A childless couple sleeps in on Judgment Day; a family tries to cope with the loss of a patriarch and attempted stand-up comedy; obedience school for a new pet leads to obesity and a funeral; a spy as a roommate makes dating difficult.In each of these captivating stories the characters confront the mayhem of lives that are normally absurd and funny for all the wrong reasons. ... Read more

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Great stories, would love to read more from Weible.
Weible's stories are hugely fun to read.One aspect of these stories that particularly appeals to me is the tendency for something to actually happen in each one. There's a climax.So many short stories go for a flat, slice-of-life, plot-less structure--these don't do that.First Born is both incredibly sad and incredibly funny.My Roommate the Spy is absolutely manic and original.Obedience School does what especially well-crafted satire is supposed to do by managing not to be obvious satire.Judgment Day is a story about couples living through the apocalypse that is touching, and noteworthy for the fact that it avoids all the usual clichés found in stories about either couples or apocalypses.

I can't find anything else by this author, but I hope to see more in the future.

Funny, quirky, unpredictable - highly recommend
I liked every one of these stories. They're all pretty different from each other. I read a lot of short stories and I liked these because there is NOTHING predictable about them. I had originally bought just one (My Roommate the Spy) but I came back and got the whole collection. Highly recommend.
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When Smith St. John loses his job and girlfriend after a slight cocaine overdose on the floor of his publishing company's marketing department, he finds himself scrounging in corners for any kind of writing job he can get.After doing freelance work writing celebrity biographies, he finds an untapped market in penning other people's suicide notes.Trading on the notion that suicide is indignity enough without showing everyone how you confused "there" and "their" in your final missive, Smith discovers a thriving market of ineloquent potential suicides.A local reporter finds Smith's online ad (keywords: suicide, gun sale, Morrissey, depression, and Sylvia Plath) and conducts an interview, bestowing Smith a minor celebrity of his own that leads to a tour of local morning news shows in America's heartland.Smith's spiraling addiction, some anti-suicide protesters, and the hokey poetry of another guest all combine to turn the morning shows into indecent affairs that propel Smith to the status of a hated man doing vile work despite the fact that, so far, all of his clients are stubbornly refusing to actually put their suicide notes to use. ... Read more

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Fun read
It wasn't until I was about halfway through this (and enjoying it, I should add) that I realized there just aren't that many books about 25 or 26 year old guys, at least not that I've read.The narrator, Smith St. John, starts the book with a trip to jail and not too much later, he loses his girlfriend.Thankfully, this isn't the kind of book where he spends the rest of it trying to win her back.A lot goes on here, but the gist is that this guy eventually finds himself out of a job and he starts writing suicide letters for people, freelance.At the same time, this is a really funny book.The subject matter is obviously kind of dark, but the narrator doesn't spend his time moping around some kind of inner wasteland or anything like that.I liked this a lot, I had fun reading it.
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Together, Jen and Smith have a new English Bulldog and a new apartment.Individually they have an eating and drinking problem (Smith), a spending problem (Jen), and a rationalization problem that encourages them to each let the other's vices slide in exchange for continuing their own.Their weekly appointments at obedience school yield no form of obedience from their dog, Kilgore, but mercifully are canceled and refunded after the instructor crushes a small dog to death.Smith is swelling in size and Jen is filling their tiny apartment with useless furniture when they receive an invitation to the funeral for Kilgore's deceased classmate. ... Read more

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Smith and Ana, practitioners of BDSM in the loosest sense of the term, wake up late one Sunday to discover that Judgment Day has been in full swing since early that morning.At first Smith is pleased to see his more obnoxious neighbors ascending into the sky, but as more and more people are taken to what may or may not be a better place, the earth becomes a tense place for those left.Smith and Ana bar-b-q and take trips to the local pool while around them things begin grinding to a halt before ramping-up towards something more horrible. ... Read more

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After his father dies ironically, Chris' mother suffers a mental collapse that renders her as useless to the family as their deceased patriarch.This leaves Chris to look after his four younger siblings while attending med school.Emotionally volatile, profane, and completely unstable in regards to the devastation of his parents, Chris daydreams about wrongfully medicating the classmates who pick on his younger, overweight brother, Jason, carts his physically disabled baby sister around on his back, and tries to keep pace with the twins, Alex and Kevin, all while being a generally furious person, incapable of controlling his emotions. ... Read more

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A wealthy woman's last request fuels the already prominent displays of reckless self-indulgence among her children, and creates one final headache for her lover/attorney. ... Read more

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Mike works a dead-end job with Hector, a terrorist of the fast food industry; he pines for Kate, arm candy for the muscle-strapped Chad; and comes home day in and day out to an apartment ravaged by the activities of his roommate, a spy.He'd be fine with all this if only his roommate's girlfriend, Lucinda, would stop kidnapping him, and Candace, the girl who works across the street at the ear piercing place, would knock off all the sexual innuendo when she orders a burrito. ... Read more

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Brilliant, enjoyable satire; a real talent here
Weible's a talent waiting to be discovered.His stories are hilarious, cutting satires of the usual connections authors contrive.I haven't laughed as hard, or enjoyed a short story as much, in quite some time.

Why does this **** show up when I type in Thomas Pynchon??
No Pynchon?To add insult to injury, a Pynchon search brings up this sub-literate c***?Please.

guerilla tacos y burritos
This was a cool story, kinda surreal.Weird cast of characters--Mike is the ultimate observer of Man. ... Read more

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A young girl watches as her family becomes founding members of a Zionist cult, and soon finds her own unique place in the religion. ... Read more

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A drug-addled and unenthusiastic door to door salesman finds himself being drawn into the neighborhood where he works. ... Read more