Forensic Psychologists: Prisons, Power, and Vulnerability

by Jason Warr

Book Overview

This book explores how forensic psychology has come to inhabit a central unifying discursive presence in the life world of modern carceral institutions. Providing a sociological and qualitative account of forensic practitioner psychologists, the author looks both in, and alongside, the work of such practitioners to explore how they simultaneously occupy positions of power and vulnerability.

Focusing not only on how practitioners themselves...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839099631
• ISBN13: 9781839099632
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"