An Introduction to Criminal Psychology
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An Introduction to Criminal Psychology

  1. 466 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

An Introduction to Criminal Psychology

About this book

This book offers a clear, up-to-date, comprehensive, and theoretically informed introduction to criminal psychology, exploring how psychological explanations and approaches can be integrated with other perspectives drawn from evolutionary biology, neurobiology, sociology, and criminology. Drawing on examples from around the world, it considers different types of offences from violence and aggression to white-collar and transnational crime, and links approaches to explaining crime with efforts to prevent crime and to treat and rehabilitate offenders.

This revised and expanded second edition offers a thorough update of the research literature and introduces several new features, including:



  • detailed international case studies setting the scene for each chapter, promoting real-world understanding of the topics under consideration;
  • a fuller range of crime types covered, with new chapters on property offending and white-collar, corporate, and environmental crime;
  • detailed individual chapters exploring prevention and rehabilitation, previously covered in a single chapter in the first edition;
  • an array of helpful features including learning objectives, review and reflect checkpoints, annotated lists of further reading, and two new features: 'Research in Focus' and 'Criminal Psychology Through Film'.

This textbook is essential reading for upper undergraduate students enrolled in courses on psychological criminology, criminal psychology, and the psychology of criminal behaviour. Designed with the reader in mind, student-friendly and innovative pedagogical features support the reader throughout.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781138650961
eBook ISBN
9781317230816

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. List of tables
  8. List of boxes
  9. List of activities
  10. Research in Focus
  11. Criminal Psychology Through Film
  12. Preface
  13. Acknowledgements
  14. Visual Tour
  15. Chapter 1 Understanding criminal behaviour: an overview
  16. Chapter 2 Developmental approaches to understanding crime
  17. Chapter 3 Mental disorder and crime
  18. Chapter 4 Aggression and violence
  19. Chapter 5 Violent offending
  20. Chapter 6 Sexual offending
  21. Chapter 7 Collective violence
  22. Chapter 8 Drugs and crime
  23. Chapter 9 Property offending
  24. Chapter 10 White-collar, organised, and environmental crimes
  25. Chapter 11 Crime prevention
  26. Chapter 12 Criminal justice responses to crime
  27. Chapter 13 Rehabilitation and reintegration
  28. References
  29. Index