Sandie Taylor

Crime and Criminality (eBook, ePUB)

A multidisciplinary approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book draws on criminology, sociology, psychology and neuroscience to offer a balanced perspective of crime, the criminal and criminality and is essential reading for courses on criminal and forensic psychology and psychological criminology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 822
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317497561
• Artikelnr.: 44475438

Autorenporträt

Sandie Taylor was a senior lecturer in psychology at Bath Spa University until late 2012. Sandie's teaching and research interests overlapped between forensic/investigative/criminological psychology and developmental/biological psychology. Specialist areas of teaching and research included forensic, criminological and investigative psychology. Sandie is currently a visiting lecture in psychology at the University of South Wales and a freelance writer on psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Section 1: What is crime? 1. Defining and Examining Crime from
Different Perspectives 2. Concepts in Crime Definition Influencing Crime
Classification Section 2: Nature-Nurture Explanations of Criminal Behaviour
3. Biological Constraints and Evolutionary Factors 4. Social, Learning and
Developmental Approaches to Understanding Criminality 5. Decision-Making
Processes by Criminals Section 3: Different Types of Crime and Criminal as
Evidence of Nature, Nurture or Nature-Nurture 6. White-Collar Criminals and
their Crimes 7. Psychopaths and their Crimes 8. Sex Offenders and their
Crimes 9. Female Offenders and their Crimes 10. Delinquents and their
Crimes Section 4: Prediction of Criminal Behaviour 11. Dangerousness, Risk
Assessment and the Mentally and the Personality Disordered Offender 12.
Offender Profiling: Serial Killers Section 5: Reliability of Investigative
Processes 13. Eye-witness Testimony and Extra-legal Defendant
Characteristics 14.Cognitive Interview 15. Confessions Section 6:
Discussion about the Function of Law and its Impact on Antisocial Behaviour
an its Origins 16. 'Big 5' Legal Concepts 17. Law Drives Criminality 18.
Concluding Comments.