This book approaches the understanding of delinquent and criminal behavior from a developmental, coginitive-behavioral, and psychological perspective.  Viewing the juvenile and adult offender as being embedded and continually influenced by multiple systems, the book examines the risk and protective factors that are believed to influence the developmental pathways on the road to delinquency and crime.  The 8th edition continues to be heavily researched in a style that allows the reader to follow the flow of the research literature. Most up-to-date psychological research and theories regarding criminal behavior are presented. Highlights how psychological, social, economic, political and ecological factors all play a role in influencing individual behavior. Looks at specific crimes from a psychological perspective: terrorism, sniper attacks, homicide and serial murder, cyber crime, white collar crime, identity theft, sex crimes, school violence, hate crimes, stalking, family violence, and drug crimes. Coverage of criminal profiling and crime scene analysis. Strategies for prevention and treatment of criminal behavior offered. New chapter on the treatment of juvenile offenders. Sections on juvenile offending added include: Juvenile Serial Murder, Juvenile Sex Offenders, Child Delinquents, Peer Rejection, School Failure, Language Deficiencies, Brain Development, Female Juvenile Sex Offenders, Current Juvenile Drug Use, and Juvenile Psychopathy. Professionals involved with the prevention and treatment of criminal behavior.

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Curt R. Bartol has been a college professor for more than 30 years, teaching a wide variety of both undergraduate and graduate courses, including biopsychology, criminal behavior, juvenile delinquency, introduction to forensic psychology, social psychology, and psychology and law. He earned his PhD in Personality/Social Psychology from Northern Illinois University in 1972. He was instrumental in creating and launching Castleton State College's graduate program in Forensic Psychology and served as its Director for 6 years. As a licensed clinical psychologist, he has been a consulting police psychologist to local, municipal, state, and federal law enforcement agencies for nearly 25 years. He is also the Editor of Criminal Justice and Behavior, the international journal of the American Association for Correctional Psychologists.

In addition to Introduction to Forensic Psychology, he has written Criminal Behavior: A Psychosocial Approach, now in its sixth edition, and coauthored, with Anne Bartol, Juvenile Delinquency: A Systems Approach, Delinquency and Justice: A Psychosocial Approach (2nd edition), and Psychology and Law: Theory, Research, and Application (3rd edition). He has published extensively in the field of forensic psychology.

Anne M. Bartol earned an MA and a PhD in Criminal Justice from State University of New York at Albany. She also holds an MA in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has taught criminal justice, sociology, and journalism courses over a 20-year college teaching career, primarily at Castleton State College, and has worked as a journalist and a social worker in child and adolescent protective services. In addition to Introduction to Forensic Psychology, she coauthored, with Curt Bartol, Juvenile Delinquency: A Systems Approach, Delinquency and Justice: A Psychosocial Approach (2nd edition), and Psychology and Law: Theory, Research, and Application (3rd edition). She has served as book review editor of Criminal Justice and Behavior and has published articles on women and criminal justice, rural courts, and the history of forensic psychology.

CHAPTER 1:  INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR

PERSPECTIVES OF HUMAN NATURE IN THEORIES OF CRIME

PERSPECTIVES IN CRIMINOLOGY

DEFINING AND MEASURING CRIME

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF JUVENILE OFFENDING

RECAP:  DEFINING CRIME AND DELINQUENCY

CHAPTER 2:  DEVELOPMENTAL RISK FACTORS

SOCIAL RISK FACTORS

PARENTAL AND FAMILY RISK FACTORS

PSYCHOLOGICAL RISK FACTORS

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DELIQUENCY

DEVELOPMENTAL THEORIES OF DELINQUENCY

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER 3: ORIGINS OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR:  BIOLOGICAL FACTORS

GENETICS AND ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR

PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL FACTORS

TEMPERAMENT

ENVIRONMENTAL RISK FACTORS

PHYSIQUE AND CRIME

EYSENCK’S THEORY OF PERSONALITY AND CRIME

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 4: ORIGINS OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR: LEARNING AND SITUATIONAL FACTORS

BEHAVIORISM

SOCIAL LEARNING

FRUSTRATION-INDUCED CRIMINALITY

SITUATIONAL INSTIGATORS AND REGULATORS OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER 5: HUMAN AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE

DEFINING AGGRESSION

THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON AGGRESSION

SOCIAL LEARNING FACTORS IN AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE

COGNITIVE MODELS OF AGGRESSION

OVERT AND COVERT ACTS OF AGGRESSION

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS

EFFECTS OF MEDIA VIOLENCE

THE BIOLOGY OF AGGRESSION

BRAIN CENTERS AND VIOLENCE CONTROL

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER 6:  CRIMINAL PSYCHOPATHY

AN EXAMPLE OF A PSYCHOPATH

BEHAVIORAL DESCRIPTIONS

THE CRIMINAL PSYCHOPATH

PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASURES OF PSYCHOPATHY

THE FEMALE PSYCHOPATH

RACIAL/ETHNIC DIFFERENCES

JUVENILE PSYCHOPATHY

BIOLOGICAL FACTORS AND PSYCHOPATHY

CHILDHOOD OF THE PSYCHOPATH

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER 7:  CRIME AND MENTAL DISORDERS

DEFINING MENTAL ILLNESS

THE DSM-IV

COMPETENCY AND CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

INSANITY STANDARDS

UNIQUE DEFENSES

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER 8:  MENTAL DISORDERS AND CRIME:  DEFENDANTS AND OFFENDERS

MENTAL DISORDERS AND VIOLENCE

MENTALLY DISORDERED INMATES

DANGEROUSNESS AND THE ASSESSMENT OF RISK

THE (NON)MENTALLY DISORDERED SEX OFFENDER

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER 9:  HOMICIDE, ASSAULT, AND FAMILY VIOLENCE

DEFINITIONS

DEMOGRAPHICS OF HOMICIDE

WEAPONS USED IN VIOLENCE

OTHER FACTORS

DEMOGRAPHICS OF ASSAULT

JUVENILE MURDER

FAMILY VIOLENCE

THE NATURE AND THEORY OF FAMILY VIOLENCE

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER 10:  MULTIPLE MURDER

INVESTIGATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

MULTIPLE MURDERERS

SERIAL MURDERERS

MASS MURDERERS

PRODUCT TAMPERING

SCHOOL VIOLENCE

WORKPLACE VIOLENCE

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER 11:  TERRORISM AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF VIOLENCE

DEFINITIONS

PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS IN GENERAL VIOLENT CRIME

DEINDIVIDUATION AND CROWD VIOLENCE

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER 12:  SEXUAL ASSAULT

LEGISLATION ON SEX OFFENDERS

RAPE:  DEFINITIONS AND STATISTICS

IMPACT ON VICTIMS

RAPE OFFENDER CHARACTERISTICS

CLASSIFICATION OF RAPE PATTERNS

ETIOLOGY OR CAUSES OF RAPE

SEXUAL ASSAULT AND PORNOGRAPHY

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 13:  SEXUAL ASSAULT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH, AND OTHER SEXUAL OFFENSES

INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF PEDOPHILIA

SITUATIONAL AND VICTIMIZATION CHARACTERISTICS

OFFENDER CHARACTERISTICS

CLASSIFICATION OF CHILD OFFENDER PATTERNS

JUVENILE SEX OFFENDERS

RECIDIVISM OF PEDOPHILES

THEORIES ON POTENTIAL CAUSES

EXHIBITIONISM

VOYEURISM AND FETISHISM

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER 14: PROPERTY AND PUBLIC ORDER CRIME

BURGLARY

LARCENY AND MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT

FRAUD AND IDENTITY THEFT

SHOPLIFTING

WHITE-COLLAR AND OCCUPATIONAL CRIME

PROSTITUTION

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER 15:  VIOLENT ECONOMIC CRIME AND CRIMES OF INTIMIDATION

ROBBERY

CYBERCRIME

STALKING

HOSTAGE-TAKING OFFENSES

ARSON

BOMBINGS

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER 16:  SUBSTANCE ABUSE, ALCOHOL AND CRIME

JUVENILE DRUG USE

THE CONSISTANT SIX RESEARCH FINDINGS ON ILLICIT DRUG ABUSE

MAJOR CATEGORIES OF DRUGS

THE HALLUCINOGENS:  CANNABIS

THE STIMULANTS

NARCOTIC DRUGS

THE CLUB DRUGS:  SEDATIVE HYPNOTIC COMPOUNDS

ALCOHOL

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER 17:  PREVENTION, INTERVENTION, AND TREATMENT: JUVENILE OFFENDERS

TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION STRATEGIES

CHARACTERISTICS OF SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS

A BRIEF HISTORY OF JUVENILE JUSTICE

CLASSIFICATION OF PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION PROGRAMS

PRIMARY PREVENTION

SELECTIVE PREVENTION

TREATMENT APPROACHES

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER 18:  CORRECTIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

CAREERS IN CORRECTIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

THE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM

SOCIETAL RATIONALE FOR PUNISHMENT OF OFFENDERS

CLASSIFICATION AND PREDICTION

PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF IMPRISONMENT

TREATMENT STRATEGIES

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

GLOSSARY

CASES CITED

REFERENCES

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