Understanding Criminal Behaviour: Psychosocial Perspectives on Criminality and Violence - Softcover

Jones, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138222887 ISBN 13: 9781138222885

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

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

This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to criminal behaviour, examining and integrating perspectives from criminology and psychology. It proposes a range of ‘psychosocial’ approaches that seek to understand the emotions that surround criminal behaviour, allowing for an exploration of individual differences and social and cultural issues that help to bridge the gap between disciplinary approaches. It offers substantive chapters on a range of topics, including:

• mental disorder and the relationship between mental health and offending;
• criminal career research;
• youth crime and the question of criminal responsibility;
• gender and crime; and
• violent crime, including homicide and sexual crime.

This new edition has been fully updated, including a revised opening chapter that offers an introduction to psychosocial criminology, up-to-date discussion of changes in the criminal justice system in the context of mental health, and two new chapters on race and crime, and public violence, extremism and terrorism.

This book is essential reading for students taking a range of courses on criminal behaviour, criminological theory, criminal psychology and psychological criminology.

About this title

About the Author:

David W. Jones is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at The Open University. He is also author of Disordered Personalities and Crime: A Historical Analysis of Moral Insanity (2016).

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1138222887
• ISBN 13: 9781138222885
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 338