Reddit mentions: The best books about forensic psychology

I am a forensic psychology major so I'm super excited to see what everyone recommends for you! I love reading psychology books!

this book has been recommended to me so many times! I just started reading it and it's very good so far!

I also really enjoyed this book on criminal profiling which is a subject that fascinates me.

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I want my eventual career to be in forensic psychology so this is pretty embarrassing.

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Not so much a general psychology book, but I enjoyed this one from one of my forensic psychology courses.
Measure of Madness
http://www.amazon.com/The-Measure-Madness-Disturbed-Disturbing/dp/0806531053

BTW, it you are going to be a psych major understand that you are going to graduate school if you want to make any money in the field.


edit: here is another one that I was supposed to read but never got around to. I hear it is good

On Human Nature
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674016386/ref=oh_details_o08_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

edit edit: another one that came to mind, good short read

Letters to a Young Therapist
http://www.amazon.com/Letters-Young-Therapist-Art-Mentoring/dp/0465057675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374088838&sr=1-1&keywords=letters+to+a+young+therapist

Your best shot is to read a book on the topic. My personal favorites are:

1. Interviews in Qualitative Research by King and Horrocks
   
   
2. For a briefer overview, see the chapter in Becoming Qualitative Researchers
   
   3) Learning from Strangers by Weiss is also a great introduction
   
   
   There is really no shortage of resources on the topic- there are also mountains of journal articles covering the topic as well.

Actually, going by the book, an interview is the search for intelligence; interrogation is what you do when you're pretty sure you've got your guy and you're going for a confession.

I think you should definitely buy one of those forensic psychology books. I picked this one. I think being a forensic psychologist is amazing and takes an extremely strong/talented individual. I really was looking into it but I realized I didn't want to pursue higher education after a Bachelors.

I really need this brush for my makeup. I think it makes a huge difference in application to the waterline/eyes.

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Spy The Lie


The Art of Profiling

What Every Body Is Saying

and, Criminal Profiling: An Introductory Guide

I read those when I began my journey down the CID rabbit hole. I also read 100 Deadly Skills, which was not directly related, but fun to keep in the back of the head.

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These is the book list I was able to read:
In Hand: Broken Windows (Can't find specific book)
Stack:
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How to stay alive in the woods
The Lying Brain
The Psychology of Memory
False Confessions (Not sure specific book)
The U.S Army Survival Manual (Not sure specific book)
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The Measure of Madness
The Book of Basic Machines: The U.S. Navy Training Manual
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The R Document
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Deception (Not sure of specific book)
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Polyurethane Technology (Not sure of specific book)
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Polyamide (Something)
Crime and Public Policy (Not sure of specific book)
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Spectacle: An Optimist's Handbook

You should read the book Unfair. It might shake your faith in the justice system a bit!

Thank you! Last book I read:

http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Criminal-Mind-Revised-Updated/dp/0804139903/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417035483&sr=1-1&keywords=inside+the+criminal+mind

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i have one: this book is often described as the bible of Forensic Science. Here It Is i do apologise profusely and wish i could apply the time needed for this, however all may not yet be lost, jjcola may take over the course (he was the second lecturer) in which case it may yet go ahead.

The first place to look would be Law and Human Behavior, which is the official journal of AP-LS. Others include Psychology, Crime & Law (EAPL's journal) and Psychology, Public Policy, and Law (an APA journal). Also, JARMAC, a relatively new journal, has had a decent amount of Psych/Law content recently as well.

As far as what to read, it really depends on what topic you're interested in. Your best bet might be to first pick up a Psych/Law textbook to get an overview of what's out there. There are a few good ones, but I'm partial to this one.

I did a report on our history of understanding of metal fatigue in commercial aviation during undergrad. This book by George Bibel was one that I relied on heavily for the section I wrote on United 232 for anyone who's interested in digging in even further.

Rather than downvote you, I'll just point you toward a book that is likely going to answer your questions better than most here.

Scientific Paranormal Investigation by Benjamin Radford. Go forth, read and learn.

Here are links to a few books that I've used and found helpful during my first year of Forensics:

• Criminalistics: Introduction to Forensic Science
  
• Introduction to Criminalistics
  
• Jackson Forensic Science

For those of you interested, I believe the OP was referring to the Crime Classification Handbook

I recommend you read this: http://www.amazon.ca/Unfair-The-Science-Criminal-Injustice/dp/0770437761
This story will be an even bigger heartbreaker when you realize that type of judiciary misconduct goes on (on a smaller level) every single day in the United States.

So did you actually watch it, and consider the evidence, or just dismiss it on a whim because their names weren't familiar to you?

G. ROBERT BLAKEY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Robert_Blakey



MICHAEL HAAG (Firearms Expert, one the most well-respected shooting scene and ballistics experts in the world)
http://www.amazon.ca/Shooting-Incident-Reconstruction-Michael-Haag/dp/0123822416/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419021692&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Evolutionary-Criminology-Towards-Comprehensive-Explanation/dp/0123979374

Very interesting comments. Talking to someone with first hand observations is so much more enlightening than someone who has merely read about this from a textbook.

There are a few pieces of your reply that I wanted to respond to. One was where you mentioned "wallowing in humility and self-loathing" (aka "Zero State" Thinking) and the other was "after a few years in prison learning about what lead to the life choices..."

Both of those statements I agree with...and I agree with them even more strongly when considered together. If all a person does is sit in prison and express remorse, they will emerge with a well practiced and highly polished way of expressing remorse...but not necessarily changed thinking. On the other hand, someone who actually focuses on the choices that lead them to commit their crime will have spent...or you could say "invested" their time in preventing the main cause of recidivism (committing crime). Asking which is "most important" is somewhat like asking which wheel of a bicycle is most important. They both are, but education is a mass application solution. Curriculum can be designed and delivered with group testing to confirm absorption. But changed thinking is much harder to gauge because it requires closer individual assessment due to the fact that the participants have the "inertia" of their patterned thinking fighting against change....and hence are more inclined to say what they think their instructors wish to hear as this allows recognition of achievement without exerting the difficult effort of actual change. This is another of Samenow's thinking errors called "Failure to Endure Adversity."

Finally, I'd like to offer you a link to a summary of the most common thinking errors:
http://www.recoveryabt.org/resources/groupMaterials/Thinking%20Errors%20List.pdf

I think you will find it a very eye opening exercise to just observe the students and see how those same patterns come up again and again and again. When I first read vol 2 of his book series "the Criminal Personality" I couldn't put it down.
https://www.amazon.com/Criminal-Personality-Change-Process-II/dp/0876687710/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1501019221&sr=1-5

Forensic Anthropology: Current Methods and Practice - Angi Christensen

https://www.amazon.com/Forensic-Anthropology-Current-Methods-Practice/dp/0124186718

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Edit: No Longer Needed

You're getting downvoted because this sub is heavily populated with people who went to school for a long long time to learn the difference. Forensic and clinical psychologists, criminal lawyers, law enforcement personnel, and just your basic level criminology students are pretty familiar with this material.

If you'd like to learn more, here's a book with an entire chapter on the difference between spree killings and serial killers: Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0057X0JYW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_0NC1BbSVM7J8J

Sometimes, if someone knows more than you, there are better ways to approach it than condescendingly going to "That's your logic????"