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| Forensic Psychology
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Edition: 3
Author: Solomon M. Fulero, Lawrence S. Wrightsman
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Release Date: 2008-04-18
ISBN-10: 0495506494
ISBN-13: 9780495506492
List Price: $130.95
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Written by two of the leading authorities in the field, FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY, Third Edition introduces you to the practice of forensic psychology by showing how psychologists aid the legal system by serving as expert witnesses, criminal profilers, and trial consultants for jury selection and child custody hearings. Wrightsman and Fulero present the roles and responsibilities of forensic psychologists, and address both the opportunities and temptations inherent in those roles. Through this lens, the authors explore the ethical issues facing practicing forensic psychologists, such as promising clients too much, the possibility of becoming advocates rather than objective scientists, and the pitfalls associated with substituting one's values for data. The authors provide an accurate and candid picture of the field, and the range of careers in forensic psychology.
Adequate Forensic Psychology Text
| Customer Rating: | | I would agree with the previous poster that this test is best intended for an introductory course for Forensic Psychology. Its function is to provide the basics and foundations of the many and varied role Forensic Psychologists face and are utilized in the criminal justice system. It's not overwhelmingly long, and written in a clear, concise manner that the student can find very manageable. This test was used in my Forensic Psychology course at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI in the summer of 2008. It serves its purpose for allowing psychology and other related social science background to see if the forensic realm of psychology is a field that they would find interesting to pursue. The authors give lots of real life examples of each subject in the chapters, as well as data to support their arguments. |
Forensic Psychology
| Customer Rating: | | Some chapters were too long. I did not find this book interesting, as a matter of fact it was rather dull and boring! |
Fair introductory text, but disappointed by lack of depth
| Customer Rating: | | I am an attorney for a psychiatric hospital and purchased this text, which was the primary required textbook in a graduate level Psychology and Law class that I took last Fall. The book served its purpose as a very general, basic introduction to the field, but if you are looking for a reference text, as I had hoped this would be, this book will likely fail to meet your needs. I found the bibliographic references to primary sources in the literature to be the best part of the book; without that, I probably would have given the text one (1) star. |
I like this book.
| Customer Rating: | | I like this book. It is filled with a lot of interesting information about how the U.S. justice system uses psychology and psychologists. It also clearly defines what a forensic psychologist is. I am a fourth year psychology major and have read many psychology books about a variety of psychological subjects, and this book is one of the most intresting I have read in a while. The only thing I do not like about it is that it has no glossary of the bold words, only a subject and name index. This makes it a little difficult to completely understand what the vocabulary words mean especially since many of them are legal terms. |
The worst textbook I've ever wasted money on...
| Customer Rating: | Poorly ordered, extremely dry, and almost impossible to read. And I've read a lot of textbooks.
If you want a good Forensic Psychology book, save your money on this one. Beg and plead with professors and school personnel responsible for selecting textbooks and ask them to PLEASE not choose this useless text that is better served as a large coaster. |
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