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Understanding criminal behaviour : psychosocial perspectives on criminality and violence /
"This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to criminal behaviour, examining and integrating perspectives from criminology and psychology. It explores a range of 'psychosocial' approaches that seek to understand the emotions that surround criminal behaviour, allowing for a...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2nd edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The need for a psychosocial criminology
- Mental disorder: madness, personality disorder and criminal responsibility
- The contribution of criminal career research
- Familial and parental influences
- Youth crime
- Gender and crime
- Understanding violence: learning from studies of homicide
- Intimate violence and sex crime
- Public violence and crimes of terror
- "Race" and crime
- Conclusion.