Bad Psychology: How Forensic Psychology Left Science Behind

by Robert A. Forde and R.A. Forde

For decades the psychological assessment and treatment of offenders has run on invalid and untested programmes. Robert A. Forde exposes the current ineffectiveness of forensic psychology that has for too long been maintained by individual and commercial vested interests, resulting in dangerous prisoners being released on parole, and low risk prisoners being denied it, wasting enormous amounts of public money. Challenging entrenched ideas about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785922300
• ISBN13: 9781785922305
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"