The Psychology of Criminal Conduct
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Overview
The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Sixth Edition, provides a psychological and evidence-informed perspective of criminal behavior that sets it apart from many criminological and mental health explanations of criminal behavior. Drawing upon the General Personality and Cognitive Social Learning theory, James Bonta and Donald Andrews provide an overview of the theoretical context and major knowledge base of the psychology of criminal conduct, discuss the eight major risk/need factors of criminal conduct, examine the prediction and classification of criminal behavior along with prevention and rehabilitation, and summarize the major issues in understanding criminal conduct. This book also offers the Risk/Need/Responsivity (RNR) model of offender assessment and treatment that has guided developments in the subject throughout the world.
In this edition, the first since Andrews’ death, Bonta carefully maintains the book’s original contributions while presenting these core concepts succinctly, clearly, and elegantly. Appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate students as well as for scholars, researchers, and practitioners, The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Sixth Edition, further extends and refines the authors’ body of work.
- Provides a psychological and evidence-informed perspective of criminal behavior.
- Shows an overview of the theoretical context.
- Maintains original contributions while presenting these core concepts succinctly.
The 6th edition is the most concise and well written edition of The Psychology of Criminal Conduct to date. The tone of the book—its enthusiasm and balance in the way issues are presented—is welcome. Besides the topics contained in past editions, the authors’ discussion of research issues, social contexts, biology, punishment, and prediction and treatment integrity are excellent contributions to this important text.
– Paul E. Gendreau, Professor Emeritus, the University of New Brunswick, Canada
No other single book has so transformed the field of correctional intervention. For more than 20 years this volume has been essential reading for everyone: from students of criminal psychology to correctional professionals, including prison officers, probation officers, case managers, and experienced psychologists.
--Devon Polaschek, PhD DipClinPsyc, Professor, Criminal Psychology, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Now in its Sixth Edition, The Psychology of Criminal Conduct is the most important book ever written in criminology. A scientific tour de force, it outlines the evidence-based RNR paradigm for understanding why people break the law and how to affect their rehabilitation. This paradigm has been used across and beyond North America to save countless offenders from a life in crime and thus countless citizens from victimization. To be literate in criminology and in correctional treatment, all scholars, students, and practitioners should read this book—and then, as I do, keep it close by and consult it often.
– Francis T. Cullen, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, University of Cincinnati, College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, USA
- Title: The Psychology of Criminal Conduct
- Authors: James Bonta, D. A. Andrews
- Edition: Sixth Edition
- Publisher: Routledge
- Print Publication Date: 2017
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 449
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Criminal psychology; Criminal behavior
- ISBNs: 9781138935778, 9781138935761, 9781315677187, 9781317387411, 9781315677197, 113893576, 1138935778, 1317387414, 113893576X, 1315677180
- Resource ID: LLS:PSYCHLGYCRCNDCT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-11-30T19:14:22Z