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Criminology and Hurricane Katrina: understanding ‘natural disasters’ Legalistic approaches are grounded in the assumptions that the law and criminal justice systems should be used to define crime, determine whether offences have taken place and determine what redress (if any) victims […]

Introducing criminology, zemiology and social harm In some respects, this can be seen as rationalised through traditional theories of crime, arguing that criminal (or harmful events) can be explained through the actions or inaction of particular individuals, groups or organisations: […]

Sex Offenders The article will use some heavy language, so please if you are sensitive or you may be offended please don;t read and accept my apologies. Some things must be said as they are so everyone can understand the […]

Therapy in Fiorensic Settings Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, In previous chapters we have looked at many different examples of ‘mad’ or ‘bad’, exploring how people who are experiencing mental health problems or who commit criminal offences are classified and […]

What Love’s Got To Do With It? For many people, the only knowledge they have about sex work comes from films (e.g. Pretty Woman, 1990), television (e.g. The Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Demange, et al., 2007) or news […]

Class, Who Are You? As this chapter aims to demonstrate, and a number of classic studies have shown, social class is highly relevant to both counselling and forensic psychology, and crime and mental health more generally. We begin with the […]

Race In 2016 reggae artist Gappy Ranks released a song called ‘Red blood’ in which he sang that whether you are Black, Indian or White … red blood is still beating through your organs. He went on to juxtapose the […]

Gender Which one is YOU? Does gender matter when we are working with those society designates as ‘the mad’ and ‘the bad’? This chapter explores the importance of gender in understanding and intervening as mental health professionals, working in criminal […]

Working Therapy in Forensic Settings From a legal perspective, the issue might seem clear and straightforward at first sight. In the UK, and other Western countries, an offender’s inability to distinguish between right and wrong and to form intent, due […]