Forensic Victimology: Examining Violent Crime Victims in Investigative and Legal Contexts - Hardcover

Turvey, Brent E.; Petherick, Wayne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0123740894 ISBN 13: 9780123740892

Publisher: Academic Press, 2008

Synopsis

This new textbook provides students with the basic principles and practice standards of forensic victimology--the scientific study of victims for the purposes of addressing investigative and forensic issues. It provides case-based coverage with original insights into the role that victimology plays in the justice system, moving beyond the traditional theoretical approaches already available. The purpose of this textbook is to distinguish the investigative and forensic aspects of victim study as a necessary adjunct to the field of victimology. It identifies forensic victimologists in the investigative and forensic communities and provides them with methods and standards of practice needed to be of service.

This book is intended to educate students on the means and rationale for performing victimological assessments with a scientific mindset. Forensic Victimology is designed specifically for teaching the practical aspects of this topic, with “hands on real-life case examples.

• Applied victimology for students and caseworkers performing objective examinations as opposed to theoretical victimology that studies victim groups and crime statistics.
• First ever textbook detailing a mandate, scope and methods for forensic victimologist practitioners.
• Provides a critical / scientific counterbalance to existing mainstream texts approaching general victimology with a pro-victim bias.
• Written by practitioners of forensic victimology in the investigative, forensic, mental health, and academic communities.

About this title

About the Author

Brent E. Turvey received a Bachelor of Science degree from Portland State University in Psychology, an additional Bachelor of Science degree in History, and a Masters of Science in Forensic Science from the University of New Haven. Since graduating in 1996, Brent has consulted with many agencies, attorneys, and police departments in the United States, Australia, China, Canada, Barbados, and Korea on rapes, homicides, and multiple death cases, as a forensic scientist and criminal profiler. He has also been court qualified as an expert in the areas of criminal profiling, crime scene investigation, forensic science and crime reconstruction, and has twice visited China to lecture before groups of detectives of the Beijing, X'ian, Wuhan, Hanjou, and Shanghai police bureaus, at the invitation of the Chinese government. He is the author of Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis, 2nd Edition, and co-author of the Rape Investigation Handbook (2004) along with Detective John O. Savino of the NYPD's Manhattan Special Victim Squad.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0123740894
• ISBN 13: 9780123740892
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608