Glenn D Walters

Closing the Integration Gap in Criminology

The Case for Criminal Thinking

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Produktbeschreibung

Closing the Integration Gap in Criminology: The Case for Criminal Thinking offers a multi -stage model of theory integration that organizes verified risk factors around the construct of criminal thinking to provide an exemplar working paradigm for criminology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780367530853
• ISBN-10: 0367530856
• Artikelnr.: 62152361

Autorenporträt

Glenn Walters is Professor of Criminal Justice at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. As a forensic psychologist, he worked for three decades in federal government as a clinical psychologist and drug program coordinator for military and federal prison inmates. He has published widely in criminology, including on addiction. He has developed a Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS). He argues that criminality is best understood and prevented by examining how it develops within the context of a person's life and has critiqued genetic studies via meta -analytic research.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: Integration in Criminology
1. An Integrated Theory of Crime: Vital Mission or Fool's Errand?
2. A Brief History of Theoretical Integration in Criminology
3. The Latent Structure of Crime-Related Constructs
4. Risk Factors, Triads, and Elaboration
PART II: Integrating with Criminal Thinking
5. Lies, Cons, and Carnival Games: Understanding Criminal Thinking
6. The Mask of Deception: Defining Criminal Thinking
7. Nature of the Beast: Assessing Criminal Thinking
8. Criminal Thinking as a Risk Factor
9. Criminal Thinking in Triads
10. Criminal Thinking and the Elaboration Process
11. Applying Integrated Theory: Practice and Policy
12. You Are What You Think