Showing titles in Criminal & Forensic Psychology

Zwei Bestseller-Autoren, eine Idee: Mörderfinder Max Bischoff und Strafverteidiger Anton Pirlo ermitteln das erste Mal gemeinsam. Karl Müller, Partner der Düsseldorfer Starkanzlei Müller & Mahler, wird tot aufgefunden, nur wenige Tage, bevor er zu den umstrittenen, von seiner Kanzlei entwickelten TaxEx-Steuersparmodellen hätte aussagen sollen. Während die Polizei von einem Suizid ausgeht, beauftragt die Kanzlei den Fallanalytiker und Privatermittler Max Bischoff, den Tod zu untersuchen. Sophie Mahler, Tochter des Gründungspartner Ernst Mahler und aufstrebende Strafverteidigerin, soll ihn unterstützen.

Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, as one judge described her, as "a coldly calculated criminal recidivist and serial killer." She had experienced a lifetime of murder, mayhem, and mental illness. She killed two boyfriends, including one whose body was stuffed in a freezer. And she was convicted in one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's strangest cases: the Pizza Bomber case, in which a pizza deliveryman died when a bomb locked to his neck exploded after he robbed a bank in 2003 near Erie, Pennsylvania, Diehl-Armstrong's hometown.

This audiobook will help you spot manipulation early, set stronger boundaries, and respond with confidence. Using psychology-backed insights, real-world examples, and practical defense strategies, you’ll learn how to recognize these tactics and shut them down before they take hold.

Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime-scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown.

Hemingway's Brain is an innovative biography and the first forensic psychiatric examination of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway. After committing 17 years to researching Hemingway's life and medical history, Andrew Farah, a forensic psychiatrist, has concluded that the writer's diagnoses were incorrect. Contrary to the commonly accepted diagnoses of bipolar disorder and alcoholism, Farah provides a comprehensive explanation of the medical conditions that led to Hemingway's suicide.

In this “unmissable book” (The Guardian), an internationally renowned forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist explores the psychology of violence and demonstrates the remarkable human capacity for radical empathy, change, and redemption. What drives someone to commit an act of terrible...

Plongez dans l'univers fascinant de la négociation professionnelle, en suivant Marwan Mery et Laurent Combalbert. Confrontés à des situations hors du commun - kidnapping, extorsion, grève de la faim, gourou manipulateur, ransomware, prise d'otages... -, ils livrent leurs secrets et expliquent comment faire la différence en situation désespérée. Pour chaque cas raconté, le lecteur apprendra trois à cinq techniques de négociation. Un ouvrage unique et captivant où le lecteur est projeté dans les rouages des négociations les plus difficiles au monde.

Why do we consider incest wrong, even when it occurs between consenting adults unable to have children? Why are words that gross us out more likely to be deemed "obscene" and denied the protection of the First Amendment? In Objection, psychologists Debra Lieberman and Carlton Patrick examine disgust and its impact on the legal system to show why the things that we find stomach-turning so often become the things that we render unlawful.

Auf einer Beerdigung steht Fallanalytiker Max Bischoff plötzlich einer Frau gegenüber, die seiner großen Liebe Jennifer Sommer zum Verwechseln ähnlich sieht. Aber Jennifer ist seit fünf Jahren tot. Und Max gibt sich noch immer die Schuld daran. Die Begegnung lässt ihm keine Ruhe, und er spricht die Unbekannte an. Sie ist ebenso erstaunt wie er, es gibt keine Verbindung zu Jennifer.

At 11 years old, Gabriel Naumann is witness to a horrific crime. Twenty-nine years later his girlfriend is taken. Then the messages begin. 'If you want to find her, then you'll have to find me.' Somebody knows the truth. Somebody knows what he did. And now his girlfriend will pay for it - unless he can find her in time. When you've spent decades running from your past, what do you do when it finally catches up with you?

This book explores the science, psychology, and controversy behind polygraph testing. Far from being a flawless instrument of justice, the polygraph is better understood as a “stress detector” than a “lie detector.” It measures physiological changes—heart rate, breathing patterns, and skin conductance—that may be linked to deception but are not exclusive to it. Nervousness, fear, anger, or even the pressure of being under suspicion can all produce the same readings as a lie. This ambiguity is at the core of the ongoing debate about whether polygraphs are reliable science or clever theater.

True Crime – Ungelöste Mordfälle: Wenn Täter spurlos verschwindenDunkle Nächte, verschwundene Spuren, offene Fragen und keine Antworten. Dieses Werk führt dich an die Grenzen des menschlichen Verstehens, dorthin, wo Wahrheit und Abgrund ineinanderfließen.

Olivia Finn, Gedächtnisexpertin an einem Londoner Krankenhaus, erhält einen merkwürdigen Anruf aus Paris: Ihre Großmutter Josephine ist im berühmten Hotel Lutetia aufgetaucht und behauptet, sie heiße eigentlich Sophie und habe hier vor Jahrzehnten einen Mord begangen. Als Josephine wenig später ermordet wird, ist klar: Jemand möchte verhindern, dass die Vergangenheit ans Licht kommen.

Unmask a chilling true crime anthology of bizarre psychological mysteries exposing the monsters hiding in plain sight. Perfect for a gripping daily commute or a dark late-night binge, these ten obscure, self-contained cases will leave you questioning the ordinary people around you. Every...

Scatterings, set in Santa Cruz California in the ’80s, weaves the true crime story of the Trailside Killer into a suspenseful, heartbreaking mystery of an abducted identical twin sister. Characters come to life against the colorful backdrop of Santa Cruz’s beauty and weirdness.

Seit vier Jahren hat Anna Ogilvy ihre Augen nicht mehr geöffnet. Nicht seit jener Nacht auf der Farm, wo man sie im Tiefschlaf gefunden hat, ein Küchenmesser in der Hand, die Kleidung blutverschmiert. Neben den Leichen ihrer beiden besten Freunde. Die einen halten Anna O. für unschuldig, die anderen für eine kaltblütige Mörderin. Aber nichts und niemand hat sie aus ihrem Albtraum wecken können. Bis jetzt.

Case Studies in Behavioral Forensic Analysis is a companion (technical, practitioner) audiobook to Dr. Ruben’s earlier book Behavioral Forensics: Using Applied Behavior Analysis in Psychological Court Evaluations (2020). It liberally expands the campaign to transform traditional forensic psychological evaluations into behaviorally (evidence-based) psychological evaluations. Basic (experimental) and applied research serve the foundation in elucidating the opaque splatter of criminal actions into transparently coherent and molecular units of behaviors.

Charles Manson and those who followed him called themselves a family while the rest of the world got to know them for what they truly were, a murderous cult. This cult would, over the space of a few short weeks during the late '60s, commit a series of murders that would shock the world and forever redefine the term serial killings. This audiobook will give you a brief glimpse into the crimes and personalities that define the evil cult of personality known as the Manson Family.

El objetivo del libro es dar a conocer la problemática de la adicción a la mentira y sus consecuencias tanto en la persona que lo sufre como en los que le rodean. Para ello se analiza la mentira, cómo surge y cómo diferenciarla de la patología; igualmente se dan recomendaciones sobre cómo tratar a dichas personas. Todo ello explicado con un lenguaje claro y sencillo, alejado de los tecnicismos, explicando cada concepto, de forma que pueda servir como una verdadera guía. 

¿Por qué hablar de la maldad cuando tendríamos que ocuparnos del lado noble y bueno de la vida? Tal vez porque enfrentamos al mal todos los días y debemos ser fuertes y estar preparados para que no nos hagan daño las envidias, los enojos, las frustraciones y, sobre todo, para no padecer sus efectos, pues todos somos propensos a sentir la ira, el rencor: la esencia de la maldad.