04401pam a2200349 a 4500 270526 270526 1544033 OSt 20180611123013.0 911108s20171992uk b 001 0 eng c 91036914 1560000449 DNLM/DLC DLC DLC spa rda HV6080 .P33 2017 HV 6080 P168c 364.3 20 Pallone, Nathaniel J. author Criminal behavior : a process psychology analysis : personal constructs, stimulus determinants, behavioral repertoires / Nathaniel J. Pallone, James J. Hennessy. [electronic resource] London : Routledge, 2017. Electronic text (xviii, 514 pages) ; 24 cm. rdacontent txt text rdamedia n computer rdacarrier nc online resource Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. A Process Psychology Paradigm for Criminal Behavior -- 2. Conceptual Constraints in Studying Criminal Behavior -- 3. Operational Constraints in Studying Criminal Behavior -- 4. Methodological Constraints in Studying Criminal Behavior -- 5. Statistical Perspectives on Criminal Homicide: The Offense As It Is Committed -- 6. Psychological Perspectives on Criminal Homicide: Variables Within the Offender -- 7. Psychological Perspectives on Homicide: Social Learning and Stimulus Determinants -- 8. Criminal Homicide: Extended Clinical Case Illustrations -- 9. Larceny: Statistical and Psychological Perspectives -- 10. Refinements, Implications, Applications -- Glossary -- References -- Index of Authors and Names -- Index of Topics. Crime Statistics suggest that Americans are not a notably law-abiding people. With some 13 million felonies reported every year, it is not surprising that few topics engage public attention and imagination more compellingly than the dynamics of criminal behavior. Volume and ubiquity alone might suggest the psychology of criminal behavior is well understood and there exists an integrated body of explanatory theory and empirical evidence. But in fact only fragmentary and incomplete accounts have thus far appeared. Criminal Behavior is virtually unique in providing a comprehensive psychological paradigm that fits across variant species of crime, while meeting the requirements of science and the needs of law enforcement and administration of justice in controlling criminal behavior.The authors begin this remarkable text by outlining a model for criminal behavior based not on abnormal psychology but on the tenets of social learning theory. They illuminate the processes by which criminal activity is initiated and repeated, including personal constructs, stimulus determinants, and behavioral repertoires. They define four process elements that interact in precipitating criminal behavior-inclination, opportunity, expectation of reward, expectation of impunity. They show how these process elements are regulated and confined by a series of complex and variable boundary conditions in specific criminal offenses. Conceptual, methodological, and operational constraints on the study of criminal behavior are defined, and statistically and behavioral science data bearing upon larceny and homicide, two crimes at diametric extremes, are examined in detail.Pallone and Hennessy locate and define those psychological variables that render comprehensible the process whereby formally criminal acts are construed as possible and desirable by individual actors and show how those actors self-select psychosocial environments that facilitate or at least do not impede the commission of crime. They identify and explain the phenomenon of 'tinderbox violence.'Its comprehensive perspective and balanced consideration of competing viewpoints make Criminal Behavior an ideal text for students and teachers of criminology and of the psychology of criminal behavior. It is also a pioneering work for psychologists, sociologists, criminologists, and law-enforcement official. Criminal psychology. Criminal behavior. Criminal Psychology. Hennessy, James, 1942- author https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5265757# Presione para acceder el libro en línea lcc 6 HV6080 .P33 2017 0 0 lcc 0 0 12 12 45 2018-04-24 23 198.55 0 HV6080 .P33 2017 50000003273223 2018-04-24 00:00:00 c. 1 198.55 2018-04-24 7