Sociology

   Calvary University

 Faculty of Sociology

Criminal Behavior —
    A Psychosocial Approach

Book Cover

Edition 6

Curt Bartol
0-13-091837-7
Hardback
516 pages
2001


Brief Description

For undergraduate level courses in Psychology of Crime, Criminal Behavior, Criminology, and Crime Patterns.

This text uses a cognitive-behavioural and interactionist approach, integrating international theory and research and moving from broad, theoretical explanations and descriptions of crime toward empirical research on specific criminal offenses.

The book examines the causes, classification, prediction, prevention intervention, and treatment of criminal behaviour from a social psychological perspective. The Sixth Edition presents the criminal offender as existing on a continuum, ranging from the serious, repetitive offender who begins his/her criminal career at a very young age to the adolescent-limited offender who usually begins offending during adolescence

Features

  • NEW-Updated strategies for prevention, intervention, and treatment.
  • NEW-Crime scene analysis and racial profiling — provides students with the latest research and techniques applied in crime solving.
  • NEW-Rewritten drugs and crime chapter — Reflects new and expanding research.
  • NEW-Cybercrime. (The psychological perspective of cybercrime.)
  • NEW-Careers in forensic psychology and correctional psychology.
  • NEW-Victimology.
  • NEW-School violence.
  • NEW-Concepts of danger assessment.
  • NEW-Updated statistics on offending characteristics.
  • NEW-Updated child abuse section. (Also: psychological effects of domestic abuse.)
  • NEW- More summary tables, data tables, key-concepts, and an expanded glossary.
  • NEW- Expanded Website resource.

Contents

  1. Introduction to Criminal Behavior.
  2. Juvenile Delinquency: Developmental Factors.
  3. Origins of Criminal Behavior: Biological Factors.
  4. The Psychopath: A Focus on Biopsychological Factors.
  5. Origins of Criminal Behavior: Learning Factors.
  6. The Mentally Disordered Offender.
  7. Human Aggression and Violence.
  8. Homicide, Assault, and Family Violence.
  9. Criminal Homicide: A Closer Look.
  10. Sexual Offenses.
  11. Economic Crime, Public Order Crime, and Other Crime.
  12. Drugs and Crime.
  13. Correctional Psychology.

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