Handbook of Assessment and Treatment of Female Crime and Violence

An in-depth examination of the empirical knowledge base on violence and criminal offending in girls and women provides scholars and policy makers with critical information on this neglected topic.

List of contents

Part I. Theory and Etiology 1. The importance of the problem: Violence and crime in women Corine de Ruiter & Tonia Nicholls 2. Theories of female crime and violence Kerry Carrington 3. Trajectories into female delinquency Candice L. OdgersPart II. Assessment 4. Forensic psychological assessment Corine de Ruiter & Nancy Kaser-Boyd 5. Violence risk assessment in women Vivienne de Vogel 6. Psychopathy assessment in women Mette Felbert-Kreis 7. Assessment of self-harm and suicide Amanda Perry 8. Cross-cultural issues in forensic psychological assessment in women Barry Rosenfeld Part III. Treatment 9. Evidence-informed treatment of criminal and violent women Kelly Blanchette 10. Risk management and community supervision Larry Motiuk 11. Mother-baby programs/prison nursery Mary Byrne 12. Substance abuse treatment in women Ellen Tuchman 13. Alternatives to incarceration: Harm reduction and restorative justice Katherine Van WormenPart III. Offense Types/Special Populations 14. Violent offending in girls Debra Pepler 15. Neonaticide Philip Resnick 16. Filicide Ghitta Weizmann-Henelius 17. Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and partner homicide Tonia Nicholls & John Hamel 18. Child maltreatment Corine de Ruiter 19. Sexual offending Franca Cortoni 20. Firesetting Theresa Gannon 21. Stalking Troy McEwan 22. Elder and parent abuse Karl Pillemer 23. Violent women in secure forensic settings (prison and forensic mental health) Caroline Logan 24. Women and gangs Meda Chesney-Lind 25. Women involved in white collar crime Mary Dodge 26. Female terrorist violence (TBD) 27. Female criminal and violent offending: Future directions Tonia Nicholls & Corine de Ruiter

About the author

Corine DeRuiter, PhD. Professor of Forensic Psychology and Chair of the Forensic Psychiatry Program University of Maastricht, Netherlands
Tonia L. Nicholls, Ph.D., CIHR New Investigator, Associate Professor, Psychiatry,
University of British Columbia and Senior Research Fellow, Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, PHSA

Summary

An in-depth examination of the empirical knowledge base on violence and criminal offending in girls and women provides scholars and policy makers with critical information on this neglected topic.

Product details

• Authors: Corine (Maastricht University De Ruiter, Corine Nicholls De Ruiter
• Assisted by: Corine de Ruiter (Editor), Corine (Maastricht University De Ruiter (Editor), De Ruiter Corine (Editor), Tonia L. Nicholls (Editor), Tonia L. (University of British Columbia Nicholls (Editor), Nicholls Tonia L. (Editor), Ronald Roesch (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 28.02.2019, delayed
• EAN: 9781138288508
• ISBN: 978-1-138-28850-8
• No. of pages: 624
• Series: International Forensic Science and Investigation; International Forensic Science and Investigation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, PSYCHOLOGY / Forensic Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Criminal or forensic psychology, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls