The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Victim and Offender Perspectives

The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Victim and Offenders Perspectives is not just another formulaic book on forensic psychology. Rather, it opens up new areas of enquiry to busy practitioners and academics alike, exploring topics using a practical approach to social deviance that is underpinned by frontier research findings, policy, and international trends. From the relationship between psychopathology and crime, and the characteristics of catathymia, compulsive homicide, sadistic violence, and homicide victimology, to adult sexual grooming, domestic violence, and honor killings, experts in the field provide insight into the areas of homicide, violent crime, and sexual predation. In all, more than 20 internationally recognized experts in their fields explore these and other topic, also including discussing youth offending, love scams, the psychology of hate, public threat assessment, querulence, stalking, arson, and cults. This edited work is an essential reference for academics and practitioners working in any capacity that intersects with offenders and victims of crime, public policy, and roles involving the assessment, mitigation, and investigation of criminal and antisocial behavior. It is particularly ideal for those working in criminology, psychology, law and law enforcement, public policy, and for social science students seeking to explore the nature and character of criminal social deviance. Includes twenty chapters across a diverse range of criminal and antisocial subject areasAuthored by an international panel of experts in their respective fields that provide a multi-cultural perspective on the issues of crime and antisocial behaviorExplores topics from both victim and offender perspectivesIncludes chapters covering research, practice, policy, mitigation, and preventionProvides an easy to read and consistent framework, making the text user-friendly as a ready-reference desktop guide INDICE: Chapter 1: Psychopathology as a Mediator of Antisocial and Criminal BehaviourChapter 2: Catathymia and Compulsive Homicide: A Psychological PerspectiveChapter 3: Victimology: Predicting Victims of Personal ViolenceChapter 4: Threat and Violence Intervention: The Influence of Victim and Offender PerspectivesChapter 5: Profiles of Victims and Offenders in FilicideChapter 6: Risk Factors for Crime and Antisocial Behaviour in YouthChapter 7: Male Victims of Domestic ViolenceChapter 8: StalkingChapter 9: Stalking Public Figures: The Fixated LonerChapter 10: Circumscribing CyberbullyingChapter 11: Domestic Violence: Psychological Issues in Victims and OffendersChapter 12: Honour Killings and Domestic Violence: The Same or Different? Chapter 13: Homicide and Homicide SolvabilityChapter 14: Victims of Child Sexual Abuse: The Psychology of VictimsChapter 15: Child Sex Offenders: The Psychology of OffendingChapter 16: The Psychology of Adult Grooming: Sinnamon's Seven-Stage Model of Adult Sexual Grooming Chapter 17: QuerulenceChapter 18: Love ScamsChapter 19: ArsonChapter 20: Cults

• ISBN: 978-0-12-809287-3
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 632
• Fecha Publicación: 16/01/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés