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Straight Talk about Criminals
Understanding and Treating Antisocial Individuals
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About this book
Is there a genetic predisposition to crime? Should mental illness be taken into account? Do family and social environments have a role? Do people become abusers because they have been abused? How can people who do terrible things consider themselves good people? What should someone involved in a relationship with a criminal know? Stanton Samenow, co-author of the widely respected three-volume study of The Criminal Personality, has collected the questions posed by audiences during his speaking engagements of the past twenty-eight years about causes, characteristics, and treatments of antisocial behavior. Now he draws on his research and clinical experience with hundreds of men, women, and children to offer no-frills answers that embody his informed perspectives on some of the toughest policy issues facing individuals, institutions, and governments today. A Jason Aronson Book
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The Criminal Personality: An Introduction
- 1 Criminal Behavior Is a Result Not of Environment but of an Individualās Choices
- 2 Environmental Factors Do Not Cause Crime
- 3 Bad Parenting Does Not Cause Crime
- 4. People Do Not Become Abusers and Criminals Because They Were Abused
- 5 Biological/Genetic Contributions to Criminality Need Not Preordain Incarceration
- 6 The Alleged Increase in Crime: It Is Not Human Nature but Laws, Law Enforcement, and Deterrents that Change
- 7 Individuals with a Criminal Mind View Life Differently Than Do Responsible People
- 8 The Criminal Mind Exists Independent of Particular Laws, Culture, or Customs
- 9 The Criminalās After-the-Fact Excuses Rarely Reflect His True Motives
- 10 Criminals, Not Drugs, Cause Crime
- 11 Criminals Are Neither Mentally Ill Nor Victims of Addictions
- 12 Schools and Crime: Schools Must Combat Crime, Not Coddle Offenders
- 13 Criminals Can Change
- 14 Helping a Criminal Change
- 15 Agents of Change
- 16 Potential Criminal Patterns Can Be Identified Early and Preventive Steps Taken
- 17 Directions for Social Policy
- 18 Offbeat Questions
- 19 Personal Questions
- A Final Note
- Appendix: An Overview of The Criminal Personality
- Recommended Reading
- Index