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Our understanding of criminal behaviour and its causes has been too long damaged by the failure to integrate fully the emotional, psychological, social and cultural influences on the way people behave.

This book aims to integrate psychological and criminological perspectives in order to better understand the nature of criminal behaviour. In particular it aims to explore the range of psychological approaches that seek to understand the significance of the emotions that surround criminal behaviour, allowing for an exploration of individual differences and social and cultural issues which help to bridge the gaps between disciplinary approaches.

The book puts forward a model for understanding behaviour through a better grasp of the link between emotions, morality and culture and argues that crime can often be viewed as emerging from disordered social relationships.

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• Acknowledgements(p. ix)
• Preface(p. xi)
• Introduction: psychological perspectives on criminal behaviour(p. xiii)
• 1 The relationship of psychology and sociology in the study of crime(p. 1)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• Beccaria and the study of crime(p. 3)
• Nineteenth-century positivism(p. 6)
• Twentieth-century sociological criminology(p. 10)
• Twentieth-century psychological approaches to crime(p. 20)
• Conclusion: psychology and criminology - a psychosocial perspective(p. 34)
• 2 Mental disorder: madness, personality disorder and criminal responsibility(p. 37)
• Introduction(p. 37)
• A brief history of criminal responsibility and mental disorder(p. 42)
• Diminished responsibility and medical definitions(p. 48)
• The problem of psychopathy and personality disorder(p. 55)
• Conclusion(p. 70)
• 3 The contribution of criminal career research(p. 72)
• Introduction(p. 72)
• The London Longitudinal Study(p. 74)
• Heterogeneity of offenders: adolescent-limited versus life-course-persistent offenders(p. 86)
• Explaining the links between childhood antisocial behaviour and adult offending(p. 91)
• Conclusion(p. 101)
• 4 Familial and parental influences(p. 104)
• Introduction(p. 104)
• Family structure and delinquency(p. 106)
• Parenting styles and early family experience(p. 112)
• Child effects(p. 121)
• Conclusion(p. 126)
• 5 Youth crime(p. 128)
• Introduction(p. 128)
• Age and criminal responsibility(p. 130)
• Why do young people commit crime?(p. 132)
• Conclusion(p. 152)
• 6 Gender and crime(p. 154)
• Introduction(p. 154)
• Men, masculinity and crime(p. 155)
• Women and crime(p. 170)
• Conclusion(p. 177)
• 7 Understanding violence: learning from studies of homicide(p. 178)
• Introduction(p. 178)
• Scenarios of homicide(p. 180)
• Confrontational homicide(p. 182)
• Personality types and confrontational rage murder(p. 188)
• Conclusion(p. 201)
• 8 Intimate violence and sexual crime(p. 203)
• Introduction(p. 203)
• Domestic violence and violence in the context of sexual intimacy(p. 204)
• Sexual crimes: rape(p. 213)
• Paedophilia and sexual offences against children(p. 228)
• Conclusion(p. 237)
• 9 Conclusions(p. 239)
• Overview(p. 239)
• Psychosocial understanding of criminal behaviour: the significance of emotion and personality in conditions of 'high modernity'(p. 244)
• Reducing crime(p. 253)
• Further work(p. 262)
• References(p. 263)
• Author index(p. 295)
• Subject index(p. 307)

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Psychosocial studies professor Jones (Univ. of East London) breaks new ground in integrating psychological perspectives into the mainstream of criminological theory. He makes a compelling case that by emphasizing a psychosocial outlook as opposed to the traditional psychological approach, scholars may more effectively analyze criminality. Jones establishes two factors that previously precluded the integration of psychological theory into the mainstream. The first, he suggests, is a backlash against the positivist perspective that had argued that all relevant data must be clearly measurement and individualistic in nature. Secondly, there appeared to be a simultaneous movement toward positivism by psychology, a burgeoning discipline. This created an immediate gulf between criminological theory in general and psychological perspectives that has precluded integration until the present. According to Jones, what has changed to make integration of theory more possible is a move to the psychosocial that itself integrates the intrinsic motivators considered by psychology and those that are extrinsic, the focus of sociological perspectives. Jones presents a well-conceived, timely, and well-packaged work that begins to build a bridge between adversarial theories in the interest of better explaining criminality. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Most levels/libraries. F. E. Knowles Valdosta State University

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David W. Jones is Principal Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London. He has previously taught at the Open University and the London School of Economics, and is the author of Myths, Madness and the Family: The impact of mental illness on families (Palgrave, 2001).