
The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior
Victim and Offender Perspectives
Description
Key Features
- Includes twenty chapters across a diverse range of criminal and antisocial subject areas
- Authored by an international panel of experts in their respective fields that provide a multi-cultural perspective on the issues of crime and antisocial behavior
- Explores topics from both victim and offender perspectives
- Includes chapters covering research, practice, policy, mitigation, and prevention
- Provides an easy to read and consistent framework, making the text user-friendly as a ready-reference desktop guide
Readership
Practitioners in the fields of forensic criminology, criminology and criminal justice, forensic mental health, psychology and psychiatry. Graduate and undergraduate students in the above mentioned areas, along with police training academies
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Psychopathology as a Mediator of Antisocial and Criminal Behavior
- Introduction
- What Is Psychopathology?
- Mental Illness and Criminality
- Personality Disorders and Criminality
- Psychotic Disorders and Criminality
- Conclusion
- Summary
- Questions
Chapter 2. Catathymia and Compulsive Homicide: A Psychological Perspective
- Introduction
- Catathymic Crisis
- Compulsive Homicide
- Sadistic Aggression
- Conclusions
- Summary
- Questions
Chapter 3. Victimology and Predicting Victims of Personal Violence
- Introduction
- The Emergence of Victimology and Its Pioneers
- The Concepts of Victim Precipitation and Victim Blaming
- Contemporary Concepts
- Victim Characteristics and Motivations
- Victims of Interpersonal Violence: Explaining Victim Characteristics and Motivations
- Understanding Victim Motivations and Behavior Through Typologies
- Empirical Evidence of a Seven-Factor Victim Typology
- Conclusions
- Summary
- Questions
Chapter 4. Threat and Violence Intervention: Influenced by Victim and Offender Perspectives
- Introduction
- The Construct of Human Violent Behavior and Its Assessment and Link to Interventions
- Interventions
- Conclusion
- Summary
- Questions
Chapter 5. Profiling in Violent Crimes: The Perpetrator and the Victim in Cases of Filicide
- Introduction
- Background History
- Definition of Filicide
- The Legal Concept of Filicide
- Classification Systems of Filicide
- Incidence, Prevalence and Statistical Problems
- Criminal and Forensic Characteristics of Filicide
- Conclusion
- Summary
- Questions
Chapter 6. Risk Assessment in Youth Justice: A Child-Centered Approach to Managing Interventions
- Introduction
- Risk Assessment: How Does It Work?
- Consequences of Risk Assessment: The False-Positive/False-Negative Paradox
- Risk in Youth Justice: What Are We Assessing and What Do We Do With It?
- Toward a More-Inclusive System of Youth Justice: Risk Assessment and Restorative Approaches
- Conclusion
- Summary
- Questions
Chapter 7. Reciprocity and Exchange: Perspectives of Male Victims of Family Violence
- Introduction
- Defining Violence in Families
- The Gender Paradigm and Gender Symmetry
- Forms of Violence Against Men
- Precipitating Factors in Family Violence
- Reportability
- Impacts of Domestic Violence
- Repercussions of Gender Bias
- Victim Precipitation
- Conclusions
- Summary
- Questions
Chapter 8. Stalking
- Introduction
- What is Stalking?
- Stalking Behaviors
- A Brief History of Stalking and Stalking Legislation
- Incidence and Prevalence of Stalking
- Stalking Typologies and Stalking Risk Assessment
- Physical and Psychological Effects of Stalking
- Stalking Among Subpopulations
- Serial Stalking and Recidivism
- Conclusions
- Summary
- Questions
Chapter 9. Stalking Public Figures: The Fixated Loner
- Introduction
- The Stalking of Private Citizens and Public Figures
- Structured Risk Assessment in Stalking
- The Convergence of Stalking and Public Figure Threat Assessment
- Key Concepts From the Fixated Research
- Threat Assessment and Management Services for Fixated Persons
- The Fixated Threat Assessment Center – United Kingdom
- Queensland Fixated Threat Assessment Center – Queensland, Australia
- The Effectiveness of Fixated Threat Assessment Agencies
- Fixated Persons at Major Events
- The Fixated Model in Other Areas of Targeted Violence
- Conclusions
- Summary
- Questions
Chapter 10. Circumscribing Cyberbullying: Toward a Mutual Definition and Characterizations of Aggression, Assault, and Recklessness via Telecommunications Technology
- Introduction
- Background
- Reaching Consensus: The Importance of First Things First
- Cyberbullying? Online Aggression? Internet Harassment? It’s All in the Name
- Conclusion
- Summary
- Questions
Chapter 11. Domestic Violence: Psychological Issues Related to the Victim and Offender
- Introductory Aspects: Framework of a Social Scourge Named Domestic Violence
- The Offender, Victim, and Context: Risk Factors Identification
- Conclusion
- Summary
- Questions
Chapter 12. Honor Killings and Domestic Violence: The Same or Different?
- Introduction
- Domestic Violence
- Honor Killings
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Summary
- Questions
Chapter 13. Homicide in Australia
- Introduction
- Impact of Homicide in Australia
- Why People Kill
- Changes in Homicide Trends
- Australian Data
- Conclusion
- Summary
- Questions
Chapter 14. Victims of Child Sexual Abuse: The Psychology of Victims
- Introduction
- Difficulties Defining and Conceptualizing Child Sexual Abuse
- Prevalence of Child Sexual Abuse
- Common Characteristics of Child Sexual Abuse Victims
- Misconceptions of Child Sexual Abuse
- Conclusions
- Summary
- Questions
Chapter 15. Child Sexual Offenders: The Psychology of Offending
- Introduction
- Misconceptions of Child Sexual Offenders
- Female Child Sexual Offenders
- How and Why Individuals Offend
- Crime Scripts
- Online Child Predators
- Conclusions
- Summary
- Questions
Chapter 16. The Psychology of Adult Sexual Grooming: Sinnamon’s Seven-Stage Model of Adult Sexual Grooming
- Introduction
- The Grooming Process
- Stages of the Grooming Process
- Conclusions
- Summary
- Questions
Chapter 17. Searching for the Spectrum of the Querulous
- The Querulous Spectrum
- Conclusions
- Summary
- Questions
Chapter 18. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding Internet Love Scams: Implications for Law Enforcement
- A Multidisciplinary Approach
- Behavioral Characteristics Pertaining to Internet Love Scam
- Recommendations
- Summary
- Questions
Chapter 19. Firesetters: A Review of Theory, Facts, and Treatment
- Costs
- Prevalence and Clearance Rates
- Explanatory Theories
- Firesetter Profiles
- Programs Designed to Reduce Recidivism
- Future Directions in Firesetter Research
- Summary
- Questions
Chapter 20. Cults
- Introduction
- What is a Cult?
- What is the Attraction to Cults?
- Conclusions
- Summary
- Questions
Product details
- No. of pages: 632
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: December 15, 2016
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128095775
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128092873
About the Editors
Wayne Petherick
Affiliations and Expertise
Grant Sinnamon
Affiliations and Expertise
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