HANDBOOK OF FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY by Weiner, Irving B.; Hess, Allen K. (editors) (Curt R. Bartol; Anne M. Bartol; Allen K. Hess; David F. Daniell; Barbara Stanley; Paul Brinson; Kathryn D. Hess; James Neal Butcher; Terri Cross Harlow; Daniel J. Reschly; Ralph Slovenko; Thomas R. Litwack) - 1987

New York: John Wiley and Sons Canada, 1987. (xv) 725 pp. Black cloth decorated in red and silver on the front panel and spine; decorated endpapers; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Chapters are: PART ONE: BACKGROUND: History of Forensic Psychology by Curt R. Bartol and Anne M. Bartol; Dimensions of Forensic Psychology by Allen K. Hess; Accessing Legal Literatures by David F. Daniell. PART TWO: AREAS OF APPLICATION ON CIVIL PROCEEDINGS: Informed Consent in Treatment and Research by Barbara Stanley; Mediating Domestic Law Issues by Paul Brinson and Kathryn D. Hess; Personality Assessment in Personal Injury Cases by James Neal Butcher and Terri Cross Harlow; Assessing Educational Handicaps by Daniel J. Reschly; Civil Competency by Ralph Slovenko. PART THREE: AREAS OF APPLICATION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Assessing and Predicting Violence: Research Law and Applications by Thomas R. Litwack and Louis B. Schlesinger; Evaluating Eyewitness Testimony by Gail S. Goodman and Annette Hahn; Assessing the Competence of Juries by Steven D. Penrod and Brian L. Cutter; Recommending Probation and Parole by Harold J. Vetter; Specific Intent and Diminished Capacity by Charles R. Clark; Defining and Assessing Competency to Stand Trial by Ronald Roesch and Stephen L. Golding; The Assessment of Criminal Responsibility: A Historical Approach to a Current Controversy; Consulting with Police by Martin Reiser and Nels Klyver; What Psychologists Should Know About Lie Detection by William G. Iacono and Christopher J. Patrick; Forensic Uses of Hypnosis by David Spiegel and Herbeft Spiegel. PART FOUR: COMMUNICATING EXPERT OPINIONS: Writing Forensic Reports by Irving B. Weiner; Consulting and Testifying in Court by Margaret Thaler Singer and Abraham Nievod. PART FIVE: TREATMENT: Intervention with Incarcerated Offenders by Michael A. Milan and Joseph H. Evans; Intervention as Prevention by Joan McCord; Psychotherapy with Criminal Offenders by Max J. Mobley; Intervention with Victim/Survivors by Lenore E. Auerbach Walker. PART SIX: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES: The Ethics of Forensic Psychology by Allen K. Hess; and Training in Psychology and Law by Gary B. Melton; followed by an author index and a subject index.. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Book.