Psychological Criminology

Psychological Criminology

Author: Richard Wortley

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2011-04-12

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1136652892

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The book provides a comprehensive coverage of psychological theories of crime and criminality, emphasizing the connections among approaches, and to show how, taken together, they provide a more complete picture of crime and criminality.


Crime in a Psychological Context

Crime in a Psychological Context

Author: Glenn D. Walters

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2011-08-08

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1412996082

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Referencing clinical case studies throughout, this book encourages students to critically examine crime-related constructs such as psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder and criminal lifestyle, and to explore evidence-based interventions that could prevent further crime.


Criminology

Criminology

Author: Gennaro F. Vito

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9780763730017

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Across America, crime is a consistent public concern. The authors have produced a comprehensive work on major criminological theories, combining classical criminology with new topics, such as Internet crime and terrorism. The text also focuses on how criminology shapes public policy.


Property Crime

Property Crime

Author: Amy Burrell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-03-05

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1351803034

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Property Crime: Criminological and Psychological Perspectives pulls together expertise from a wide range of academics and practitioners who focus on preventing and investigating property crime. From car theft and vandalism to burglary and robbery, this book provides an insight into the motivations and pathways of crime, as well as how it is investigated and what happens to offenders when they are caught. This book aims to highlight the extent, nature, and impact of property crime as well as providing an overview of different topics such as: offender crime scene behaviour, motivations, the decision process that underpins a range of property-related offences, prosecution, rehabilitation, and prevention. In addition, the processes and challenges involved in investigating and prosecuting property offences are discussed from a range of perspectives, including crime analysts, police detectives, forensic crime scene investigators, and prosecutors. This is an essential read for students, applied researchers, and practitioners working across the criminal justice system. It is a 'one-stop-shop' for anyone interested in this pervasive form of criminal behavior.


Creativity and Crime

Creativity and Crime

Author: David H. Cropley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-07-25

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1107024854

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Creative criminals commit highly effective, novel crimes. From consumer fraud to terrorism, how can these creative criminals be stopped?


Understanding Criminal Behaviour

Understanding Criminal Behaviour

Author: David W. Jones

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1843923041

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This title offers a psychosocial perspective on crime and argues that a great deal can be gained by re-integrating psychological approaches with the more sociological perspectives of criminology.


Crime in Japan

Crime in Japan

Author: Laura Bui

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-04-03

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 3030140970

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This book reviews research on psychology and crime in Japan, and compares the findings with similar research conducted in Western industrialised countries. It examines explanations for crime and antisocial behaviour in Japan using research and theories from a psychological perspective. Topics covered include cultural explanations, developmental and life-course criminology, family violence and family risk factors, youth crime and early prevention, school factors and bullying, mental disorders, biosocial factors, psychopathy and sexual offending. In some parts, it challenges and refines the prevailing belief that Japan is a society characterised by low crime and little antisocial behaviour. This original project is the most up-to-date work on crime in Japan, and advances the important field of psychological criminology.


Criminology Goes to the Movies

Criminology Goes to the Movies

Author: Nicole Hahn Rafter

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0814745296

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From a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic and Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy, through scholarly research, but also in popular culture, through film. Criminology Goes to the Movies connects with ways in which students are already thinking criminologically through engagements with popular culture, encouraging them to use the everyday world as a vehicle for theorizing and understanding both crime and perceptions of criminality. The first work to bring a systematic and sophisticated criminological perspective to bear on crime films, Rafter and Brown's book provides a fresh way of looking at cinema, using the concepts and analytical tools of criminology to uncover previously unnoticed meanings in film, ultimately making the study of criminological theory more engaging and effective for students while simultaneously demonstrating how theories of crime circulate in our mass-mediated worlds. The result is an illuminating new way of seeing movies and a delightful way of learning about criminology.


Criminality in Context

Criminality in Context

Author: Craig Haney

Publisher: Psychology, Crime, and Justice

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781433831423

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In this groundbreaking book that is built on decades of work on the front lines of the criminal justice system, expert psychologist Craig Haney encourages meaningful and lasting reform by changing the public narrative about who commits crime and why. Based on his comprehensive review and analysis of the research, Haney offers a carefully framed and psychologically based blueprint for making the criminal justice system fairer, with strategies to reduce crime through proactive prevention instead of reactive punishment. Haney meticulously reviews evidence documenting the ways in which a person's social history, institutional experiences, and present circumstances powerfully shape their life, with a special focus on the role of social, economic, and racial injustice in crime causation. Haney debunks the "crime master narrative"--the widespread myth that criminality is a product of free and autonomous "bad" choices--an increasingly anachronistic view that cannot bear the weight of contemporary psychological data and theory. This is a must-read for understanding what truly influences criminal behavior, and the strategies for prevention and rehabilitation that follow.