Volume 1: Individual and Situational Influences in Criminal
and Civil Contexts
Editorial Board
About the Editors-in-Chief
Contributors
Series Preface
Introduction
Part I: Forensic Evaluation and Treatment in Criminal
Cases
Chapter 1: Foundational Aspects of Forensic Mental Health
Assessment
Kirk Heilbrun and Casey D. LaDuke
Chapter 2: Forensic Assessment Instruments
Richard Rogers and Chelsea E. Fiduccia
Chapter 3: Risk Assessment and Communication
Laura S. Guy, Kevin S. Douglas, and Stephen D. Hart
Chapter 4: Legal Insanity and Mens Rea Defenses
Ira K. Packer
Chapter 5: Criminal Competencies
Daniel C. Murrie and Heather Zelle
Chapter 6: Mental Health Treatment of Criminal Offenders
Barry Rosenfeld, Jacqueline Howe, Ashley Pierson, and Melodie
Foellmi
Chapter 7: Capital Case Considerations
David DeMatteo, Michael Keesler, Megan Murphy, and Heidi
Strohmaier
Part II. Individual and Situational Predictors of Criminal
Behavior
Chapter 8: Criminal Behavior
Shelley L. Brown, Shannon Gottschall, and Craig Bennell
Chapter 9: Psychopathy
Kevin S. Douglas, Natalia L. Nikolova, Shannon E. Kelley, and John
F. Edens
Chapter 10: Substance Use and Crime
David DeMatteo, Sarah Filone, and Jennie Davis
Chapter 11: Sexual Offending
Michael C. Seto, Drew A. Kingston, and Skye Stephens
Chapter 12: Intimate Partner Violence
Tonia L. Nicholls and John Hamel
Part III: Applications of Forensic Psychology in Civil
Cases
Chapter 13: Child Custody and Access
Marc J. Ackerman and Jonathan W. Gould
Chapter 14: Personal Injury and Other Tort Matters
Eric Y. Drogin, Leigh D. Hagan, Thomas J. Guilmette, and Lisa Drago
Piechowski
Chapter 15: Employment Discrimination
Margaret S. Stockdale, Katherine A. Sliter, and Leslie
Ashburn-Nardo
Chapter 16: Civil Competencies
Douglas Mossman and Helen M. Farrell
Index
Volume 2: Criminal Investigation, Adjudication, and
Sentencing Outcomes
Editorial Board
Part I: Victim and Offender Groups
Chapter 1: Children as Witnesses
Debra Ann Poole, Sonja P. Brubacher, and Jason J. Dickinson
Chapter 2: Juvenile Offenders
Jennifer L. Woolard, Sarah Vidal, and Erika Fountain
Chapter 3: Elders and the Justice System
Eve M. Brank and Lindsey E. Wylie
Chapter 4: Female Offenders
Tonia L. Nicholls, Keith R. Cruise, Duncan Greig, and Holly
Hinz
Chapter 5: Race in the Justice System
Jennifer S. Hunt
Part II: Criminal Investigations and Jury
Trials
Chapter 6: Investigative Psychology
Paul J. Taylor, Brent Snook, Craig Bennell, and Louise Porter
Chapter 7: Eyewitness Memory
Nancy K. Steblay
Chapter 8: Deception Detection
Aldert Vrij
Chapter 9: Confessions
Saul M. Kassin, Jennifer T. Perillo, Sara C. Appleby, and Jeff
Kukucka
Chapter 10: Jury Decision Making
Margaret Bull Kovera and Lora M. Levett
Chapter 11: Media and the Law
Jennifer Groscup
Chapter 12: Procedural Justice
Diane Sivasubramaniam and Larry Heuer
Part III: Sentencing and Incarceration
Chapter 13: Probation and Parole
Jill Viglione and Faye S. Taxman
Chapter 14: Sentencing
R. Barry Ruback
Chapter 15: Prison Overcrowding
Craig Haney
Chapter 16: Community Corrections
Erin Crites, Courtney Porter, and Faye S. Taxman
Chapter 17: The Death Penalty
Craig Haney, Joanna Weill, and Mona Lynch
Index
Brian L. Cutler, PhD, earned a doctorate degree in social
psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1987. He
served on the faculties of Florida International University and the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He currently serves as
professor and associate dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and
Humanities at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.
Dr. Cutler's primary area of research is forensic psychology. He is
the editor of Reform of Eyewitness Identification Procedures,
Conviction of the Innocent: Lessons From Psychological Research,
Expert Testimony on the Psychology of Eyewitness Identification,
and the Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law. He is also the author
or coauthor of four books; 25 chapters in edited volumes; and 67
articles in peer-reviewed psychology, social psychology,
psychology-law, and law journals. Dr. Cutler has taught
undergraduate and graduate courses in introductory psychology,
social psychology, psychology-law, research methods, professional
writing, and professional development. He has trained
undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students in psychology-law
research. He has also served as a mentor to junior faculty members,
providing professional development guidance and advice. Dr. Cutler
served as editor-in-chief of Law and Human Behavior, the journal of
the American Psychology-Law Society, from 2005 to 2011. He also
served as president-elect, president, and immediate past president
of the American Psychology-Law Society from 2011 to 2013. He has
taught continuing legal education courses on psychology-law topics
to attorneys in the United States and has served as a consultant
and expert witness in cases involving eyewitness identification and
false confessions in the United States and Canada.
Patricia A. Zapf, PhD, earned a doctorate degree in clinical
forensic psychology from Simon Fraser University in Canada and is
currently a professor in the Department of Psychology at John Jay
College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York. She
was recently elected president of the American Psychology-Law
Society, and she is the editor of the American Psychology-Law
Society book series and the associate editor of Law and Human
Behavior. Dr. Zapf is the author of eight books and manuals and
more than 85 articles and chapters, mainly on the assessment and
conceptualization of criminal competencies. She was appointed
Fellow of APA and Distinguished Member of the American
Psychology-Law Society in 2006 for outstanding contributions to the
field of law and psychology for her work in competency evaluation.
In addition to her academic endeavors, Dr. Zapf serves as a
consultant to various criminal justice and policy organizations and
has a private practice in forensic assessment. She has conducted
more than 2,500 forensic evaluations in the United States and
Canada and has served as an expert witness in a number of cases,
including the competency hearing of Jose Padilla. Dr. Zapf is the
author of Best Practices in Forensic Mental Health Assessment:
Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial; editor of Forensic
Assessments in Criminal and Civil Law: A Handbook for Lawyers; and
associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law. She
served on the National Judicial College's Mental Competency: Best
Practices Model panel of experts and travels throughout the United
States and internationally to train legal and mental health
professionals on best practices in forensic evaluation.
A peerless source for all mental health practitioners, whether a
generalist or a specialist with knowledge of an experience in
forensic services.
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