Crime in a psychological context : from career criminals to criminal careers / Glenn D. Walters.

By: Walters, Glenn D
Language: English Publisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. SAGE c2012Description: 1 online resource ( xiii, 269 pages ): illustrationsContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781412996082 (pbk.); 1412996082 (pbk.)Subject(s): Criminal behavior | Crime -- Psychological aspects | Criminal psychology | CriminologyDDC classification: 364.3 LOC classification: HV6080 | .W24 2012
Contents:
Understanding crime: the prime context -- Latent structure: the criminal lifestyle in a dimensional context -- Classification: the criminal lifestyle in a diagnostic context -- Assessment: the criminal lifestyle in an appraisal context -- Development or propensity: the criminal lifestyle in an etiological context -- Phenomenology: the criminal lifestyle in a subjective context -- Intervention: the criminal lifestyle in a programmatic context -- Prevention: the criminal lifestyle in a high-risk youth context -- Mental illness and malingering: the criminal lifestyle in an application context -- Future contexts and distant horizons.
Summary: This engaging book presents a contextual psychological interpretation of crime. It covers essential topics including psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder, and criminal lifestyle. The author's compelling analysis explains criminal behavior, by showing how the criminal lifestyle is capable of integrating two seemingly incompatible crime paradigms: the career criminal paradigm and the criminal career paradigm. Starting with a context for criminality, and then moving from particular conceptions of crime to more evidence-based theories, this volume challenges students to think in a different way about crime and criminal behavior.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-262) and index.

Understanding crime: the prime context --
Latent structure: the criminal lifestyle in a dimensional context --
Classification: the criminal lifestyle in a diagnostic context --
Assessment: the criminal lifestyle in an appraisal context --
Development or propensity: the criminal lifestyle in an etiological context --
Phenomenology: the criminal lifestyle in a subjective context --
Intervention: the criminal lifestyle in a programmatic context --
Prevention: the criminal lifestyle in a high-risk youth context --
Mental illness and malingering: the criminal lifestyle in an application context --
Future contexts and distant horizons.

This engaging book presents a contextual psychological interpretation of crime. It covers essential topics including psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder, and criminal lifestyle. The author's compelling analysis explains criminal behavior, by showing how the criminal lifestyle is capable of integrating two seemingly incompatible crime paradigms: the career criminal paradigm and the criminal career paradigm. Starting with a context for criminality, and then moving from particular conceptions of crime to more evidence-based theories, this volume challenges students to think in a different way about crime and criminal behavior.

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