Table of contents : SECTION I. CONCEPTS OF BEHAVIORAL FORENSIC ASSESSMENT. Chapter 1 - What is behavioral forensic assessment (BFA)? The role of applied behavior analysis in psychological evaluation. Chapter 2 - The paradigm shift from traditional models to behavioral forensic model of forensic psychological assessment.
SECTION II. CASE STUDIES IN BEHAVIORAL FORENSIC ASSESSMENT. Chapter 3 - Behavioral predictors of sexual proclivity in a sexual offender. Chapter 4 - Mis-entitlement of thrill-seeking sexual assaults in individuals with unregulated urges (establishing operations). Chapter 5 - Intracontingency variables in criminal responsibility evaluations. Chapter 6 - Risk of alcohol recidivism in evaluating reinstatement of a Driver's license. Chapter 7 - Behavioral forensic analysis of competency-to-stand trial in the evaluation of an offender accused of car jacking and breaking and entering. Chapter 8 - Social contingencies potentiating vandalism and violence. Chapter 9 - Insularity effects of self-reinforcement under concurrent variable interval punishment schedules in the assessment of repeated embezzlement. Chapter 10 - Cultural contingencies of survival intermingled with domestic violence: A case of evocative effects of metaphorical extension. Chapter 11 - Contingencies of vicarious conditioning resembling Munchausen by proxy in the assessment of parental competence. Chapter 12 - Intrafamily contingencies exposing contradictory testimony and parental incompetence in two parents vying for child custody. Chapter 13 - Avoidance/escape (operant) conditioning and respondent biophysical arousal in the behavioral forensic assessment of an adolescent arsonist. Chapter 14 - Effective communication of psychological evaluation findings for the court.