Current Perspectives in Forensic Psychology and Criminal Behavior

This text is a dynamic reader that provides cutting-edge research in police and correctional psychology, the psychology of crime and victimization, and psychology as applied to criminal and civil courts. Addressing key topics in each of three major course areas-criminal behavior, forensic psychology, and psychology and law-the book highlights how forensic psychology has contributed to the understanding of criminal behavior and crime prevention. Editors Curt R. Bartol and Anne M. Bartol have assembled published journal articles, as well as commentaries written specifically for this book by forensics experts, to provide an overview of the wide array of prevalent theories in this field.

Key Features

• Includes updated articles and will feature a Student study site that includes relevant articles and old articles (that were replaced by the new ones) from the first edition
• Provides students and instructors with first-hand reports from the fields of research
• Opens with an introductory chapter, followed by Part introductions - all written by the book's editors.
• Complements a variety of criminal justice, forensic psychology, and psychology and law textbooks.

Also available bundled with Bartols' Forensic Psychology, Second Edition.  Use ISBN: 978-1-4129-6521-7 to order the bundle for $99.95 and save money for you and your students!

Anne M. Bartol earned an MA and a PhD in criminal justice from State University of New York at Albany. She also holds an MA in journalism from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She taught criminal justice, sociology, and journalism courses over a 20-year college teaching career, primarily at Castleton State College, and has worked as a journalist and a social worker in child and adolescent protective services. In addition to editing this book of readings, she has coauthored Introduction to Forensic Psychology; Juvenile Delinquency: A Systems Approach; Delinquency and Justice: A Psychosocial Approach (2nd ed.); Psychology and Law: Theory, Research, and Application (3rd ed.); and Criminal Behavior (8th and 9th eds.). She has served as book review editor and managing editor of Criminal Justice and Behavior and has published articles on women and criminal justice, rural courts, and the history of forensic psychology.

Curt R. Bartol was a college professor for more than 30 years, teaching a wide variety of both undergraduate and graduate courses, including Biopsychology, Criminal Behavior, Juvenile Delinquency, Introduction to Forensic Psychology, Social Psychology, and Psychology and Law. He earned his PhD in personality/social psychology from Northern Illinois University in 1972. He was instrumental in creating and launching Castleton State College’s graduate program in forensic psychology and served as its director for 6 years. As a licensed clinical psychologist, he has been a consulting police psychologist to local, municipal, state, and federal law enforcement agencies for over 25 years.

In addition to editing this book of readings, he has written Introduction to Forensic Psychology (now in its 3rd ed.) and Criminal Behavior: A Psychosocial Approach (now in its 9th ed.). He also has coauthored Juvenile Delinquency: A Systems Approach, Delinquency and Justice: A Psychosocial Approach (2nd ed.) and Psychology and Law: Theory, Research, and Application (3rd ed.). He is also the long-standing editor of SAGE’s Criminal Justice and Behavior.