Course Adoption Books on Law

• Acting Out

  This book examines the prison careers of inmates who appear to sabotage their own rehabilitation by repeated displays of violence, disruptiveness, or otherwise self-defeating behavior.

• Adolescents, Sex, and the Law

  This book highlights the inadequacies of the juvenile justice system and proposes a strategy for reframing the current social, psychological and legal conceptions of adolescence.

• The Causes of Rape

  This book examines why some men seem prone to rape, offers probable causes for this inclination, and provides a comprehensive review of scientific studies of coercive sex.

• Constructive Divorce

  This book discusses the benefits of improving procedural justice in divorce cases.It then scrutinizes how today's family law system measures up in terms of criteria based in social sciences, such as efficiency, bias, accuracy, consistency, respect and concern for disputants.

• Criminal Profiling

  This book aims to transform criminal profiling into a credible science and practice that will reliably aid law enforcement investigation.

• Determining Damages

  Jury decisions about damages have been deemed biased, capricious, unreliable, hostile to corporate defendants, excessively generous, and out of control. This book provides an empirical analysis of the ways that jurors and juries determine damage awards.

• Emotions and Culpability

  This book investigates why, when, and how ordinary human beings hold some individuals guilty of crimes, but others less so or not at all.

• Ethnopolitical Warfare

  This APA book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of why ethnic conflicts escalate or deescalate and offers psychological analyses of group identity and conflict.

• The Evolution of Mental Health Law

  This book provides an overview of the past 25 years in the field of mental health law that will be useful for specialists in law, psychology, psychiatry.

• Expert Witnesses in Child Abuse Cases

  In this APA book, eminent psychologists, lawyers, and social workers discuss aspects of testimony and provide recommendations for proper role of the expert witness in child abuse cases.

• Experts in Court

  This book examines the use of expert testimony across the legal system, including the unique issues faced by mental health professionals when they are called upon to serve as expert witnesses.

• The Hidden Prejudice

  This book reveals a pattern of prejudice against mentally disabled individuals that keeps them from receiving equal treatment under the law.

• Homophobia and the Law

  This book examines the major junctures at which the lives of gay and lesbian people intersect with the law - marriage, children, work, and death.

• Investigative Interviews of Children

  Principles outlined in this APA book can be generalized to a variety of situations in which the interviewer wishes to gather information untainted by the dynamics of adult~child questioning.

• Justice and the Prosecution of Old Crimes

  This APA book looks at the psychological impact that the prosecution of old crimes has on both society and the victims.

• Juvenile Delinquency

  This APA book presents an integrated theoretical perspective on antisocial behavior in adolescents.

• Law & Mental Health Professionals

  This book explains the state mental health laws of Colorado.

• Law & Mental Health Professionals

  This book provides a thorough review of the laws in the state of Kentucky as they relate to the mental health profession.

• Law & Mental Health Professionals

  This book is a legal reference of New Mexico's mental health laws for both the practitioner and lawyer.

• Law & Mental Health Professionals

  This book provides a thorough review of the laws in the state of Ohio as they relate to the mental health profession.

• Law & Mental Health Professionals

  This hardcover edition provides a thorough review of the laws in the state of Vermont as they relate to the mental health profession.

• Laws Affecting Clinical Practice

  This book is an essential introduction to clinically relevant laws for mental health professionals.

• Legal Blame

  This APA book sheds new light on how jurors interpret justice in the wake of accidents and reveals much about the psychology of jury decision making in general.

• The Legal Construction of Identity

  This APA book addresses the relationship between the US and Puerto Rico over the past 100 years, focusing on legal constructs and governing norms involved in Puerto Rico’s struggle for identity.

• Making Good

  This book offers a narrative analysis of the lives of repeat offenders who turned their lives around, a literature review on personal reform and a guide to the use of narratives in offender counseling.

• Mandated Reporting of Suspected Child Abuse

  The second edition of this APA book contains an extensive set of guidelines and recommendations on how to respond to mandated reporting laws in a variety of settings.

• More Than the Law

  This book presents eleven different stories, highlighting major legal decisions such as mandatory testing for drug use in schools, abortion, use of the death penalty, and jury selection, among others.

• Not Fair! The Typology of Commonsense Unfairness

  APA book discusses unfairness from historical, religious, legal and psychological contexts and shows how age, gender and culture affect how we perceive it.

• Preventing Sexual Violence

  This book critiques the current treatment of sex offenders in an effort to determine how best to prevent reoffending without infringing on the rights of citizens.

• Psychology Licensure and Certification

  Offers a broad range of information and explicit guidance on topics pertaining to students’ educational direction and professional growth.

• Psychosocial Treatments for Child and Adolescent Disorders

  This book describes the empirically supported treatments for the major mental disorders encountered in practice for children and adolescents, such as anxiety, affective, attention deficit, autistic, and conduct disorders.

• Reforming Punishment

  This book challenges current prison practice and points to ways psychologists and policy makers can strive for a more humane justice system.

• Scientific Jury Selection

  Provides a thorough review of the most common techniques used to select jurors, and a critical evaluation of the ultimate effectiveness of these methods.

• Stalking in Children and Adolescents

  APA book reviews current research on stalking and obsessional harassment and recommendations for assessment and treatment of young stalking victims and perpetrators.

• Substance Abuse Treatment for Criminal Offenders

  This book covers traditional and cutting-edge treatments for offenders, including women, juveniles, and those with the dual diagnoses of substance abuse and a mental disorder.

• Treating Adult and Juvenile Offenders With Special Needs

  This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to mental health services exploring the history, rights, standards and treatment of offenders with special needs in correction environments.

• Treating Chronic Juvenile Offenders

  This book presents promising methods for treating chronic juvenile offenders proven to be effective in reducing juvenile crime.

• Violence and Gender Reexamined

  This book challenges one of Western culture’s most deeply held assumptions - that violence against women is different from violence against men.

• Violent Offenders

  In this new edition, the authors update their review, focusing on the actuarial instruments they developed and described earlier and on the measures they have continued to develop.

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