Criminal Behavior: A Psychosocial Approach
- Book Review,
by Curt R. Bartol
From Book News, Inc.
A text about crime that portrays the criminal offender as embedded in and continually influenced by multiple systems within the psychosocial environment. It is designed as a core text for undergraduate and graduate courses in criminal behavior, criminology, the psychology of crime, crime and delinquency, and forensic psychology. The latest edition includes reworked chapters on drugs and crime and crime measurement, surveys, and data collection. Other new material covers topics including the effects of child abuse, neglect, and domestic violence on children; racial profiling; road rage; sex offender legislation; date rape; and school violence.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Description
This book examines the causes, classification, prediction, prevention intervention, and treatment of criminal behavior from a social psychological perspective. It 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. Chapter topics feature up-to-date discussions on terrorism, juvenile psychopathy, sexual predators, drugs and crime, prostitution, correctional classification, correctional treatment, risk factors for delinquency, corporate and occupational crime, and cyber crime. For any professional in criminal justice— probation officers; juvenile detention workers, victim advocates, caseworkers in corrections, etc.; and any mental health worker working with juveniles, criminal suspects, defendants, or offenders—correctional psychologists, forensic psychologists, police psychologists, and school counselors and administrators.
Book Info
Author uses a cognitive-behavioral 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 publisher, Prentice-Hall Humanities/Social Science
Balanced, comprehensive, and research-based, this text explores the psychological factors -- dispositional and environmental -- affecting criminal behavior. Using a cognitive-behavioral and interactionist approach, it integrates international theory and research, and moves from broad, theoretical explanations and descriptions of crime toward empirical research on specific criminal offenses.
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