The psychology of criminal conduct /
James Bonta, D.A. Andrews.
- Sixth edition.
- 1 online resource.
Revised edition of the authors' The psychology of criminal conduct, 2010. Includes index.
Preface -- The theoretical context and knowledge base to the psychology of criminal conduct -- An overview of the psychology of criminal conduct -- The empirical basis to the psychology of criminal conduct -- From criminology theories to a psychological perspective of criminal conduct -- The major risk/need factors of criminal conduct -- The biological basis of criminal behavior -- Antisocial personality pattern -- The role of procriminal associates and attitudes in criminal conduct -- The person in social context : family, marital, school, work, leisure/recreation, and neighborhood -- Substance abuse -- Applications -- The risk-need-responsivity model of offender assessment and treatment -- Prediction of criminal behavior and classification of offenders -- Offender rehabilitation -- Creating and maintaining rnr adherence : a real-world challenge -- The failed experiment : getting tough on crime -- Criminal subtypes: intimate partner violence, the mentally disordered and sex offenders -- Summary and conclusions -- A general personality and cognitive social learning perspective of criminal conduct: summary and conclusions -- Index to selected acronyms -- Subject index -- Author index.
The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Sixth Edition, provides a psychological and evidence-informed perspective of criminal behavior that sets it apart from many criminological and mental health explanations of criminal behavior. Drawing upon the General Personality and Cognitive Social Learning theory, James Bonta and Donald Andrews provide an overview of the theoretical context and major knowledge base of the psychology of criminal conduct, discuss the eight major risk/need factors of criminal conduct, examine the prediction and classification of criminal behavior along with prevention and rehabilitation, and summarize the major issues in understanding criminal conduct. This book also offers the Risk/Need/Responsivity (RNR) model of offender assessment and treatment that has guided developments in the subject throughout the world. In this edition, the first since Andrews'death, Bonta carefully maintains the book's original contributions while presenting these core concepts succinctly, clearly, and elegantly. Appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate students as well as for scholars, researchers, and practitioners, The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Sixth Edition, further extends and refines the authors'body of work.