FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY, CRIME AND POLICING: KEY CONCEPTS AND PRACTICAL DEBATES

A key resource for students, academics and practitioners, this concise guide brings together various concepts vital to the theoretical, policy and practical debates on forensic psychology and its relationship with crime and policing.

Covering issues such as criminal behaviour, police decision making and crime scene investigation, each entry provides a succinct overview of the topic, together with an evaluation of the emerging issues. The text includes:

• associated concepts and further reading from research and practice;

• references and glossary.

Accessible and comprehensive, this book is the go-to guide for those getting to grips with the relationships between forensic psychology, crime and policing.

Karen Corteen is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice in the School of Law at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Karen is interested in, has published in and teaches in, the areas of: victimology and visual victimology; critical criminology and zemiology; crimes and harms of the powerful and resistance to it; sports criminology, and the occupational-related harms of the 'sports entertainment' industry. She also publishes in the area of hate crime including female sex worker hate crime.