Full Description
This book offers both theoretical and practical examinations of the psycho-criminology of criminal justice in Asia, with particular emphasis on the Hong Kong and Singapore contexts. It is designed to present the current state of the field, which addresses key topics in three major sub-areas - policing and legal system, offender rehabilitation and treatment, and research and future directions. Written by academics with extensive research experience in their respective topics and senior ranking practitioners in their fields, topics include psychologists' involvement in different aspects of forensic investigation, police emotional reactions to major incidents, the application of psychological approaches in developing offender rehabilitation and treatment modules to address different offender's criminogenic needs, and legal issues related to the insanity defence, fitness to plead, the jury system, and the procedural justice and legitimacy. An important reference for post-graduate courses, this book will be of special interest to criminologists and psychologists working in forensic settings, mental health professionals, policy-makers, police personnel, prison officials, and legal executives.
Chapters include:
1. Youth gang offenders in Singapore
2. Offender rehabilitation: the Hong Kong Correctional Services Department
3. Juries as decision makers in East Asian judicial systems: Hong Kong, the Mainland China, South Korea, and Japan
4. The psychology of violent extremism: what we know and what else we need to do
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
About the editors
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: exploring criminal justice in Asia from a psycho-criminological perspective
PART 1: Policing and legal system
1.Youth gang offenders in Singapore
2.Hearing evidence from child witnesses: Hong Kong experience
3.Criminal responsibility (insanity defence) in Hong Kong
4.Fitness to plead in Hong Kong
5.Juries as decision makers in East Asian judicial systems: Hong Kong, the Mainland China, South Korea, and Japan
PART 2: Offender rehabilitation and treatment
6.Offender rehabilitation: the Hong Kong Correctional Services Department
7.Development of psychological services in the Hong Kong Correctional Services Department
8.Gender-specific assessment and treatment for female offenders in Hong Kong
9.Towards a safer society: psychological assessment and treatment of serious violent offenders in Hong Kong
10.The development of psychological treatment programmes for incarcerated sex offenders in Hong Kong: from relapse prevention to a positive treatment approach
11.The application of psychology to the Singapore Prison Service
12.The assessment and management of youth offenders in Singapore: implementing the risk-need-responsivity framework
PART 3: Research and future directions
13.Singaporean police officers who responded to a major riot: a study of psychological reactions
14.The Little India riot in Singapore: a crowd psychology and behavioural analysis study
15.The psychology of violent extremism: what we know and what else we need to do
16.Expanding the study of procedural justice and legitimacy in Hong Kong: what has been done and future directions
Epilogue: a combined etic-emic approach to psycho-criminology
Index
