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Forensic Psychology (with InfoTrac)

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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. 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.

GREAT PRICING SPECIALLY WITH THE PRESENT PRICES OF BOOKS AT THE SCHOOLS. I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT BOOKS ARE CHANGED FROM SEMESTER TO SEMESTER, NOT YEAR TO YEAR, AS A GIMMICK TO MAKE MONEY, RIPPING OFF STUDENTS.

I have been pleasantly surprised by this edition. It was exactly what I needed for my class. In depth information and related case studies.

This is a basic level textbook which served its purpose in my forensic psychology course. The text does a nice job of outlining the subject with enough details here and there to encourage further research. It is not a single source encyclopedia of everything you need to know about forensic psychology.

Pros: It will give the student a decent understanding of how much this field covers and how forensic psychology is not "as seen on tv."
Cons: It is unlike many of today's textbooks that integrate a fair amount of visual aids, graphs, or pictures to enhance the learning experience.
Bottom line: I found it very informative, yet, dull to read.

This book is dry and far less interesting than I hoped it would be. I find myself rereading passages over and over because they are so dull that my mind wanders non-stop. It is comprised of far too many legal cases and too few studies on the brain.

This was in very good condition, much better than I had expected for a used book! Thank you so much!

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.

Some chapters were too long. I did not find this book interesting, as a matter of fact it was rather dull and boring!

I ordered this book because it was suppose to be in new condition.When I received the book it had writing in it,(I hate books with writing in it) the back of the book is very sticky from stickers being removed, and the book clearly says used so she tried to cover up the fact that she already purchased the book used so she removed the stickers,but, it was stamped on the pages.I was stuck with the book because my class had started so I had to settle with it. I will never order from this person again.