An Introduction to Criminal Psychology

An Introduction to Criminal Psychology By Russil Durrant

This publication offers a, up-to-date, thorough, and theoretically educated introduction to unlawful psychology, discovering how mental explanations and techniques can be included with other perspectives attracted from evolutionary biology, neurobiology, sociology, and criminology. Sketching on instances from surrounding the world, it considers different kinds of offenses from assault and hostility to white-collar and transnational criminal offenses, and links methods to explaining offense with efforts to avoid crime and treat and rehabilitate offenders.

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GENETICS OF CRIMINAL AND ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR BY JOHN WlLEY & SONS

GENETICS OF CRIMINAL AND ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Criminal and antisocial behavior threaten cooperative social organization, and each culture has developed methods to isolate and punish criminals. However, criminal behavior has not been eliminated in any culture, and so it is rational to try to use scientific approaches to explain the origins and causes of criminal behavior, and to suggest ways of preventing crime or rehabilitating offenders.

There has been extensive research on environmental causes of criminal behavior: this book examines the evidence for genetic contributions. Twin and adoption studies suggest that there may be genetic contributions to some criminal behaviors. The data are examined in detail in this book, which includes discussion of the methodological problems of disentangling genetic and environmental sources of variance in behavior. In animals, aggression is commonly an appropriate response to environmental stimuli: data from the relevant animal studies of the inheritance of aggressiveness are included in the book. There have been reports suggesting neuropharmacological abnormalities in violent offenders. These represent potential underlying mechanisms whereby genetic influences could be mediated. The recent evidence regarding brain and, in particular, neurotransmitter abnormalities is discussed. A heritable tendency to behave in a particular way would have significant implications for criminology, particularly for rehabilitation strategies. Important issues also arise for moral philosophy. Separate chapters examine evolutionary and anthropological aspects of violence and warfare. The book is truly multidisciplinary and contains contributions from behavioral geneticists, population geneticists, evolutionary theorists, neuroscientists, philosophers and criminologists.

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Policing and Society By MICHAEL J. PALMIOTTO

POLICING AND SOCIERY BY 
MICHAEL J. PALMIOTTO

Policing and Society: A Global Approach provides comparative information on policing
as a component of criminal justice that is guided by current sociological perspectives
and an international understanding. Currently, there exists no text book similar to
Policing and Society: A Global Approach that discusses the study of law enforcement
sociologically and cross-nationally. Policing and Society is a Global Approach is intended to be used as a main text for
undergraduate students, both in community colleges and four-year institutions. It
could also be utilized as a major text for international programs and curricula with
a global approach to the topic. The other major feature of Policing and Society is its
sociological perspective. Courses on the police that adopt a macro level or societal 

outlook toward law enforcement issues will find Policing and Society a good fit in that it is
based on a sociological view of policing.  

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The Trials of Masculinity- ANGUS MCLARE

The Trials of Masculinity- ANGUS MCLARE

Ideas of masculinity, which a generation ago seemed mostly unproblematic, have become a major subject of historical inquiry, and the period that has aroused the most extreme interest is the turn of the twentieth century, when a sense of crisis seized much of western Europe and The united states. In The Studies of Masculinity Angus McLaren seeks to increase these research. Geographically, he roams from western Canada and the United States to key Europe, with a concentration on England and Portugal. His subject is the social and cultural structure of the boundaries of normative masculinity--and the critical role in this process of the identification of various sorts of deviance. He identifies a selection of legal trials in which issues of proper masculine personality, conduct, and sexuality sharply emerged, and he makes use of these as points of entry into the swirl of opinions--popular and professional, legal, medical, and political--that such cases aroused.

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Investigating Identity Theft: A Guide for Businesses, Law Enforcement, and Victims

What will you do when you encounter identity theft within your business?

Chances are, you have already lost money to identity theft and business fraud. Look no further than the latest newspaper headlines to know that it is an epidemic problem and an alarming reality from which no business-whether small or large-is immune.

Although you can′t completely stop identity theft from happening, you can be prepared when it takes place. Investigating Identity Theft: A Guide for Businesses, Law Enforcement, and Victims is your practical guide for fully understanding and investigating identity theft.

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The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance

 

Studies of Simone de Beauvoir have mostly concentrated on her literature, her life, and her famous 1949 work, The Second Sex, and the continued emphasis has been on Beauvoir's views on gender. The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir places her theory of women's "otherness" in the context of a number of contemporary theories on a similar subject. While gender takes its place among these, Professor Deutscher counterbalances its grip on our memory of Beauvoir's ideas by situating it in the context of our relationship to ageing, to generational difference, and to race and cultural difference. By differentiating the many aspects of "otherness," Beauvoir revisited some of the concepts of reciprocity, ambiguity, and ethics for which she is best remembered.

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Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret A. Simons, "Feminist Writings"

Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret A. Simons, "Feminist Writings"

By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for Simone de Beauvoir's more familiar writings. Spanning Beauvoir's career from the 1940s through 1986, the pieces explain the paradoxes in her political and feminist stances, including her famous 1972 announcement of a "conversion to feminism" after decades of activism on behalf of women. Feminist Writings documents and contextualizes Beauvoir's thinking, writing, public statements, and activities in the services of causes like French divorce law reform and the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution. In addition, the volume provides new insights into Beauvoir's complex thinking and illuminates her historic role in linking the movements for sexual freedom, sexual equality, homosexual rights, and women's rights in France.

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