Crime in a Psychological Context: From Career Criminals to Criminal Careers

Crime in a Psychological Context: From Career Criminals to Criminal Careers
ISBN-10
1483342468
ISBN-13
9781483342467
Category
Psychology
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2011-08-08
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Author
Glenn D. Walters

Description

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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