Understanding Criminal Behaviour (2nd Ed.) Psychosocial Perspectives on Criminality and Violence
Auteur : Jones David
Our understanding of criminal behaviour and its causes has been too long damaged by the failure to integrate the emotional, psychological, social and cultural influences on the way people behave.
This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to criminal behaviour, examining and integrating perspectives from criminology and psychology. It proposes a range of ?psychosocial? approaches that seek to understand the emotions that surround criminal behaviour, allowing for an exploration of individual differences and social and cultural issues that help to bridge the gap between disciplinary approaches. It offers substantive chapters on a range of topics, including:
- mental disorder and the relationship between mental health and offending;
- criminal career research;
- youth crime and the question of criminal responsibility;
- gender and crime; and
- violent crime, including homicide and sexual crime.
This new edition has been fully updated, including a revised opening chapter that offers an introduction to psychosocial criminology, up-to-date discussion of changes in the criminal justice system in the context of mental health, and two new chapters on race and crime, and public violence, extremism and terrorism.
This book is essential reading for students taking a range of courses on criminal behaviour, criminological theory, criminal psychology and psychological criminology.
1. The Need for a Psychosocial Criminology; 2. Mental Disorder: Madness, Personality Disorder and Criminal Responsibility; 3. The Contribution of Criminal Career Research; 4. Familial and Parental Influences; 5. Youth Crime; 6. Gender and Crime; 7. Understanding Violence: Learning from Studies of Homicide; 8. Intimate Violence and Sex Crime; 9. Public Violence and crimes of terror; 10. ‘Race’ and Crime’; 11. Conclusion
David W. Jones is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at The Open University. He is also author of Disordered Personalities and Crime: A Historical Analysis of Moral Insanity (2016).
Date de parution : 08-2019
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 08-2019
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes d’Understanding Criminal Behaviour :
Mots-clés :
Young Men; Cognitive Behaviour Therapy; Psychosocial Criminology; Offender Personality Disorder Pathway; Mental Health and Crime; General Mental Health Issues; Personality Disorder; West Germany; Criminology of Terrorism; LCP Offender; Homicide; Successive UK Government; Public Violence; Robust Negative Association; Sexual Violence; UK Debate; Domestic Violence; Diminished Responsibility; mental disorder; Negative Relationship; criminal psychology; Shame Rage Cycles; cognitive behavioural therapies; AL Group; Confrontational Homicide; Insanity Defence; UK Perspective; Sex Offenders; Doli Incapax; Rampage Killings; Moral Insanity; Slovenly Woman; Sociological Criminology; Strong Peer Influences; Shame Proneness