Aims to investigate criminal recidivism, the process involved in continuing offending and in delaying desistance from a criminal career. This book focuses on why, how and for how long an individual continues committing crimes. It explains both the development of a persistent criminal career and the commission of offences.
Aims to investigate criminal recidivism, the process involved in continuing offending and in delaying desistance from a criminal career. This book focuses on why, how and for how long an individual continues committing crimes. It explains both the development of a persistent criminal career and the commission of offences.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Georgia Zara, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Criminological Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Italy, and is Head and Programme Leader of the Higher Degree in Criminological and Forensic Psychology in the same Department. She has been a Visiting Scholar of the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, UK since 2003. She is also a Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society, a Criminologist, and has been appointed an Honorary Judge in Turin's Surveillance Court. Her major research interests are criminal careers, criminal persistence and recidivism, neurocriminology, psychopathy, and violent and sexual offending. David P. Farrington, O.B.E., is Emeritus Professor of Psychological Criminology and Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellow in the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University. He received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2013. He is Chair of the ASC Division of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology. His major research interest is in developmental criminology, and he is Director of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, a prospective longitudinal survey of over 400 London males from age 8 to age 56. In addition to over 600 published journal articles and book chapters on criminological and psychological topics, he has published nearly 100 books, monographs and government reports.
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Foreword, Rolf Loeber Introduction 1. Criminal recidivism 2. Criminal careers, recidivists and chronic offenders 3. Chronic offenders and their life stories 4. Risk assessment 5. Psychopathy 6. Sex offending 7. Evidence-based intervention and treatment 8. Conclusions.
