Hennessy, James. creator author text Electronic books. xx 1992 First edition monographic eng 1 online resource (514 pages) 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. Cover Page -- Criminal Behavior -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Displays, Figures, Tables -- Preface -- 1 A Process Psychology Paradigm for Criminal Behavior -- Current Status of A Scientific Psychology of Criminal Behavior -- Criteria for a Comprehensive Psychology of Criminal Behavior -- Emphasis on Differences or Commonalities? -- Behavior as A Function of Interaction -- Univariate vs. Multivariate Explanations for Behavior -- A Search for Multiple Causation -- Appropriate Attention to Extra-psychic Determinants -- Aims &amp -- Methods in Differential Psychology -- Behavior Springs from the Inside Out -- Measurable Differences in Characteristics -- The Failure to Post-Diet -- Aims &amp -- Methods in Process Psychology -- Inquiry into the Engines of Behavior -- Incorporating Data from Differential Psychology -- Stimulus Determinants of Behavior -- An Anchor in Personal Construct Psychology -- The Person-Environment Interactions Framework -- An Interactionist Paradigm for Behavior -- A Process Psychology Paradigm for Criminal Behavior -- Elements in the Process -- Boundary Conditions -- No Assumption of Psychopathology -- Reinforcement and Maintenance -- The Process Model in Context: Variables and Weights -- Predisposition as a Function of Infrequent Intrusive Sanction -- Varying Weights and Sources -- Inclination toward Specific Criminal Behaviors -- Inverse Relationship between Opportunity and Predisposition -- Expectation of Impunity Potentiated by Vicarious Conditioning -- Conceptual and Utilitarian Value -- Summary -- Notes &amp -- Commentary -- 2 Conceptual Constraints in Studying Criminal Behavior -- Divergent Conceptual Domains -- Criminality as A Legal Construct Applicable to A Single Behavior -- Criminality Follows Adjudication -- Shifting Definitions of Criminality -- Positive Law, Social Convention, Pristine Morality. Behavior That Is "Wrong in Itself" -- Behavior That Is Merely Proscribed -- Fixing Culpability for Criminal Behavior -- The M'Naghten Rule and its Descendants -- A Comprehensive Model Definition from The American Law Institute -- The American Bar Association: Severity of Deficit -- Aggravating and Mitigating Factors -- The American Psychiatric Association and Voluntary Intoxication -- Psychopathic Deviation and Its Referents -- Retrospective Diagnoses -- "Guilty, but Mentally III" -- Sequelae to a Successful Plea of Insanity: Institutionalization -- Extra-Judicial Exculpation -- Summary -- Notes &amp -- Commentary -- 3 Operational Constraints in Studying Criminal Behavior -- Incidence of Crime and Apprehension -- A Preoccupation with Biochemicals? -- Formal Adjudication of Behavior as Criminal -- Successive Funnels from Crime to Sanction -- Intrusive Sanctions and the Expectation of Impunity -- Guilty Pleas: A Function of Plea-Bargains? -- Estimating the Probability of Intrusive Sanction -- Atypical Offenders as Subjects for Study? -- Summary -- 4 Methodological Constraints in Studying Criminal Behavior -- Methods of Inquiry in The Stud Y of Behavior -- Clinical Case Study -- Inherent Impediments as A Mode of Inquiry -- Classic Exemplars -- The Problem of Retrospective Analysis -- Structured Observation -- Classic Exemplars -- Legal Obligations of The Participant-Observer -- Psychometric Methods -- Classic and Current Exemplars -- Practical Constraints -- Laboratory Analogue Experimentation -- Classic Exemplars -- Limitations in Studying Criminal Behavior -- Constrained Methods of Inquiry &amp -- Post-Dicting Criminal Behavior -- Empirical Data, Inference, and Conceptual Models -- Conceptual Models in the Probabilistic Sciences -- Conceptual Models as Inferential Abstractions -- Conceptual Models and Prediction in Clinical Practice. The Client as Predictor and Behaver -- Prediction, Risk, and the Tolerance of Error -- Predicting Behavior vs. Predicting Conviction for That Behavior -- Post-diction and the Assessment of Responsibility -- What We Study vs. What We Do -- The Correspondence Approaches Zero -- Summary -- 5 Statistical Perspectives on Criminal Homicide: The Offense As It Is Committed -- The Legal Referent and its Several Variants -- The Known Parameters: Murder as it is Committed -- An Epidemiologic Perspective on The Prospective Victim -- Summary -- Notes &amp -- Commentary -- 6 Psychological Perspectives on Criminal Homicide: Variables Within the Offender -- Neuropsychological Variables Related to Lethal Violence -- Neurogenic Sources of Impulsive Violence -- Clinical Evidence -- Categorical Attributions -- Head Trauma and Its Effects -- Brain Function Anomalies Among Violent Offenders -- Neurochemical Anomalies -- The Matter of Physique -- Cause, Correlative, or Consequence? -- Neurogenic Violence and Criminal Culpability -- Implications for The M'Naghten Standard -- ➡ Inferences, Speculations, Conjectures -- Diagnosable Formal Psychiatric Disorder -- Incidence among Convicted Offenders -- Incidence among Homicide Defendants -- Cautions against Attributing Causation -- ➡ Inferences, Speculations, Conjectures -- Measurable Psychological Characteristics -- Data from Projective Instruments -- ➡ Inferences, Speculations, Conjectures -- Data from Actuarial Measures -- Personality Measures: The Minnesota Multiphasic Inventory -- Studies Among Homicide Offenders -- The Megargee-Bohn Typology Study -- Reassembling The Megargee-Bohn Source Data -- The Ma Scale as A Differential Identifier of Violent Offenders -- The Mayo Clinic Restandardization and Age-Related Decline In Pd Scores -- A Neurogenic Etiology for Psychopathic Deviation?. Psychopathy: Trait or Pattern of Behavior? -- Personality Measures: The Maudsley/Eysenck Inventory -- ➡ Inferences, Speculations, Conjectures -- Measures of Intelligence -- ➡ Inferences, Speculations, Conjectures -- Studies of Atypical Homicide Offenders -- Close Kinship Murder: Filicide -- ➡ Inferences, Speculations, Conjectures -- Women Homicide Offenders -- ➡ Inferences, Speculations, Conjectures -- Juvenile Homicide Offenders -- ➡ Inferences, Speculations, Conjectures -- Serial and Mass Murderers -- ➡ Inferences, Speculations, Conjectures -- Summary -- Notes &amp -- Commentary -- 7 Psychological Perspectives on Homicide: Social Learning and Stimulus Determinants -- Paradigms for Learning Through Social Imitation -- Long Distance Vicarious Conditioning and Criminal Behavior -- Deterrence as the Conditioning of Avoidance Behavior -- Evidence for Long-Distance Vicarious Deterrence -- Controversial Studies on The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment -- Capital Punishment as An Infrequently-Implemented Sanction -- ➡ Inferences, Speculations, Conjectures -- Stimulus Determinants: Eliciting or Potentiating Violence -- A Subculture of Violence -- Regional Cultures of Violence -- Confluence of Deaths by Violence -- Prevalence of Violent Death Inflected by Age -- ➡ Inferences, Speculations, Conjectures -- Intergenerational Transmission of Patterns of Violence -- ➡ Inferences, Speculations, Conjectures -- The Availability of Weapons -- ➡ Inferences, Speculations, Conjectures -- Biochemical Lubricants of Criminal Violence -- Variant Methods of Inquiry -- Alcohol and Controlled Dangerous Substances -- Foodstuffs and Additives -- Differentially Credible Biochemical Contributions To Criminogenesis -- ➡ Inferences, Speculations, Conjectures -- Environmental Contingencies as Contributory Variables -- ➡ Inferences, Speculations, Conjectures. Interaction: A Taste for Risk and The Self-Selection of Risky Environments -- Young Males, the Choreography of the Dare &amp -- Character Contests -- Emerging as Victim Rather than Offender: The Luck of the Draw? -- A Tinder Box Peopled by Risk-Takers -- Age-Related Decline in the Taste for Risk -- ➡ Inferences, Speculations, Conjectures -- Summary -- Notes &amp -- Commentary -- 8 Criminal Homicide: Extended Clinical Case Illustrations -- Squires Story -- The Path to Sexual Victimization -- Revelation of Victimization - and Its Aftermath -- Removal from the Family: What Is Reinforced? -- Hostility and Impulsivity Enter the Behavioral Repertoire -- Acute Neurological Toxicity Potentiates Criminal Behavior -- Opting for a Criminal Lifestyle -- An Attempt to Diversify Leads to Federal Prison -- Re-traumatization Potentiates Disposition Toward Violence -- Construing Lethal Violence as an Acceptable Behavior -- Squire's MMPI Profile and the Post-Diction of Violence -- Postscript: Expectation of Impunity Yields Another Victim of Incest -- A Tinder Box Ignites on Christmas Night -- "If My Wife Calls, Tell Her I Ain't Here" -- Sweat Shops and Counterfeit Merchandise -- Romance Enters Paco's Life -- The Role of Odd Man Out -- Ben Meets "Savage Henry" -- Drug-Induced Impairment in Sexual Performance -- Duardo Announces a Party -- The Gift of Love and Bouts of Love-Making -- Lita Chooses a Costume -- Ben Claims His Woman -- An Ancient Dance -- The Call to 911 -- Chemical Structure and Behavioral Effects of a "Designer Drug" -- The Issue of Pathological Intoxication -- Aggravating Factors Minus Mitigating Factors = Plea Bargain? -- Summary -- Notes &amp -- Commentary -- 9 Larceny: Statistical and Psychological Perspectives -- The Legal Referent: Larceny in its Myriad Forms -- Statistical Perspectives: Larceny as it is Committed. 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