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Author(s): Richard Wortley
ISBN(s): 9781843928065, 184392806X
Edition: 1
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Year: 2010
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 184392806X 
ISBN 13: 9781843928065
Author: Richard Wortley

Psychological Criminology addresses the question: what is it about individuals and their experiences that cause them to commit crime and/or to become criminal? This book provides a comprehensive coverage of psychological theories of crime and criminality, exploring theories focusing on factors present at birth (human nature, heredity); theories that focus on factors that influence the offender over the lifespan (learning, development); and theories focusing on factors present at the crime scene. It emphasizes the connections among the different approaches, and demonstrates how, taken together rather than as rival explanations, they provide a more complete picture of crime and criminality than each provides individually. Theories are arranged throughout the book in a temporal sequence, from distal to proximal causes of crime. The analysis spans 100,000 years, from the evolutionary roots of criminal behaviour in the ancestral environments of early humans on the African savana, to the decision to engage in a specific criminal act. Key features of the book include: a focus on theory – ‘explaining’ crime and criminality, an integrative approach, accessible to readers who do not have a background in psychology. Psychological Criminology highlights the contributions that psychological theory can make to the broader field of criminology; it will be of interest to students, academics, researchers and practitioners in both criminology and forensic psychology.

Psychological Criminology An Integrative Approach Crime Science 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction
What is psychological criminology?
Defining crime and criminals
Debates about the nature of crime and criminality
Psychological theories of crime and criminality: an integrated model
2 Human nature
The principles of evolution
Evolution and behaviour
Crime-focused evolutionary approaches
Offender-focused evolutionary approaches
Conclusion and evaluation
3 Heredity
A primer in behavioural genetics
Heritability of criminality
Variations in the heritability of criminality
Beyond behavioural genetics: molecular genetics
Conclusion and evaluation
4 The brain
Basic brain structures and functions
Psychophysiology and crime
Biochemistry and crime
Neuroanatomy and crime
Neuro-environmental factors and crime
Putting it together: neuropsychological theories of crime
Conclusion and evaluation
5 Personality
Trait approaches to personality
The single-trait approach and crime
The super-trait approach: Eysenck’s three-factor theory of crime
Antisocial personality disorder (APD)
Conclusion and evaluation
6 Development
The biological and environmental foundations of human development
Developmental risk and protective factors for crime
Psychosocial development and crime
Criminal careers
Conclusion and evaluation
7 Learning
The science of behaviour
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Social learning
Conclusion and evaluation
8 Cognition
The cognitive revolution
Social cognitive theory
Offender decision-making
Schemas and scripts
Conclusion and evaluation
9 Situations
What is a situation?
Social psychology
Environmental psychology
Opportunity theories
The person–situation interaction (again)
Conclusion and evaluation
10 Conclusion
The argument in a nutshell
The strengths and limits of integration
Implications for practice

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