Format:
1 Online-Ressource (510 Seiten)
Edition:
6th ed.
ISBN:
9781317387404
Content:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- PART 1 The Theoretical Context and Knowledge Base to the Psychology of Criminal Conduct -- CHAPTER 1 An Overview of the Psychology of Criminal Conduct -- Definition of the Psychology of Criminal Conduct -- Values at the Base of PCC -- Objectives of PCC -- Definitions of Criminal Behavior -- Variation in Criminal Conduct -- A Look Ahead -- Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- Part 4 -- Worth Remembering -- CHAPTER 2 The Empirical Basis to the Psychology of Criminal Conduct -- The Research Designs
Content:
The Correlates of Crime and the Cross-Sectional Research Design -- Predictor Variables and the Longitudinal Design -- Dynamic Predictors and the Multiwave Longitudinal Design -- Causal Variables and the Randomized Experimental Design -- Some Commonly Used Statistics -- Statistical Significance: p 〈 .05 and Confidence Intervals -- Statistical Measures of the Magnitude of Covariation -- Meta-Analyses -- Moderator Variables -- A Comment on Aggregated Crime Rates -- Worth Remembering -- Recommended Readings -- CHAPTER 3 From Criminology Theories to a Psychological Perspective of Criminal Conduct
Content:
Criminological Theories -- Strain Theory -- Subcultural Perspectives -- Labeling and Marxist/Conflict Theories -- Control Theories -- Differential Association Theory -- Summary of Criminological Theories -- A General Personality and Cognitive Social Learning Theory of Criminal Conduct -- The Learning of Criminal Behavior -- A Glimpse at the Evidence Supporting GPCSL and the Central Eight -- Summary -- Worth Remembering -- PART 2 The Major Risk/Need Factors of Criminal Conduct -- CHAPTER 4 The Biological Basis of Criminal Behavior -- Heredity and Crime -- The Search for a Crime Gene
Content:
Intergenerational Crime -- What Twin and Adoption Studies Tell Us about Nature and Nurture -- Twin Studies -- Adoption Studies -- The Nature-Nurture Interaction -- Neurophysiological Factors and Crime -- The Difficult, Impulsive, Sensation-Seeking Temperament -- Crime: A Failure or Success of Evolution? -- A Failure in Evolution: The Caveman Awakened -- Criminal Behavior as an Evolutionary Adaptation -- Three Closing Comments -- Worth Remembering -- Recommended Readings -- CHAPTER 5 Antisocial Personality Pattern -- Psychology's View of Personality -- The Super Trait Perspective of Personality
Content:
Is Personality Just a Matter of Traits? -- Criminology's View of Personality -- Then ... -- And Now ... -- Antisocial Personality as Pathology -- Psychiatry and Antisocial Personality Disorder -- Psychopathy -- The Assessment of Psychopathy: Hare's Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R) -- PCL-R and the Prediction of Criminal Behavior -- Are There Noncriminal Psychopaths? -- The Etiology of Psychopathy -- The Treatment of Psychopaths -- Can Children Be Psychopaths? -- A General Personality and Cognitive Social Learning Perspective: APP -- Poor Self-Control: A Facet of Antisocial Personality
Content:
Antisocial Personality Pattern: Risk and Treatment
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
9781138935778
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bonta, James The Psychology of Criminal Conduct Florence : Taylor and Francis,c2016 9781138935778
Language:
English
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