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An Introduction to Criminal Psychology

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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

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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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The Trials of Masculinity- ANGUS MCLARE

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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 religious terrorism and ritualistic crimes by Dawn Perlmutter

Posted by Daredevilcps9 Posted on 9:12 PM

Investigating religious terrorism and ritualistic crimes

by Dawn Perlmutter

This book assists in crime scene identification, criminal investigation, and prosecution of religious terrorism and occult crime. It analyzes occult and religious terrorist practices from each group's theological perspective to help the reader understand traditional and contemporary occult groups and domestic and international terrorist religions, demarcate legal religious practice from criminal activity, and acquire techniques specific to occult and terrorist religion crime scene investigation.

1. Contemporary religious violence.
2. Millennial religions & terrorism.
3. Domestic terrorist religons.
4. International terrorist religons.
5. Satanism.
6. Vampirism.
7. Syncretic religons.
8. Ritualistic crime scenes.
9. Intelligence strategies.
10. Symbolic analysis: ritual homicide typology.

Size : 10.1 MB

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Signs of Crime by Marcel Danesi

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Signs of Crime (Mouton Textbook) by Marcel Danesi

This book contains the field of forensic semiotics as a tool for finding the root cause of crime and criminality. It will focus on how symbolism, ritual, and other sign-based activities play a crucial role in the formation of criminal organizations and often in the performance of individual crimes. It will present semiotic notions, methods, and techniques that can be applied to forensic science, such as the role of ritual and slang in criminal gangs.

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Crime Prevention: Theory and Practice, Second Edition

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Crime Prevention: Theory and Practice, Second Edition by Stephen Schneider

In , Dr. Schneider has updated every chapter in this reliable text using the latest research, the most recently published articles and books, and feedback from professors and students using the first edition. Providing an introduction to dominant approaches, key concepts, theories, and research, the book supplies concrete advice on planning, implementing, and evaluating a crime prevention plan.

This edition includes a new chapter applying crime prevention through social development principles to adolescents and young adults. This chapter is a recognition of the disproportionate rate of offending by adolescents and young adults as well as the distinctive risk factors faced by these groups. It also emphasizes the unique nature of applying social problem-solving solutions to adolescents and young adults who have been in formal contact with the criminal justice system. The focus is on recidivism prevention, an often-ignored, but critical aspect of crime prevention.

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Theorizing Crime and Deviance A New Perspective

Posted by Daredevilcps9 Posted on 12:03 PM

Theorizing Crime and Deviance A New Perspective

"Anything that takes away from the terminally off key karaoke of so much that passes for theory in criminology is to be welcomed, and this is a fine effort to connect the study of crime and control to an innovative set of theoretical possibilities. A rip-roaring read that slaughters some sacred cows while throwing the odd baby out with the bath water."

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Illness or Deviance?

Posted by Daredevilcps9 Posted on 11:53 AM

Illness or Deviance?: Drug Courts, Drug Treatment, and the Ambiguity of Addiction by Jennifer Murphy

Is drug addiction a disease that can be treated, or is it a crime that should be punished? In her probing study, "Illness or Deviance?," Jennifer Murphy investigates the various perspectives on addiction, and how society has myriad ways of handling it incarcerating some drug users while putting others in treatment.
"Illness or Deviance?" highlights the confusion and contradictions about labeling addiction. Murphy s fieldwork in a drug court and an outpatient drug treatment facility yields fascinating insights, such as how courts and treatment centers both enforce the disease label of addiction, yet their management tactics overlap treatment with therapeutic punishment. The addict" label is a result not just of using drugs, but also of being a part of the drug lifestyle, by selling drugs. In addition, Murphy observes that drug courts and treatment facilities benefit economically from their cooperation, creating a very powerful institutional arrangement. Murphy contextualizes her findings within theories of medical sociology as well as criminology to identify the policy implications of a medicalized view of addiction."

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Homicide: A Sociological Explanation- Leonard Beeghley

Posted by Daredevilcps9 Posted on 12:48 AM

Homicide: A Sociological Explanation- Leonard Beeghley

This book focused on the root cause of homicide to explain larger currents in American society. Leonard Beeghley examines the historical and cross-national dimensions of homicides and evaluates previous attempts to explain it. He just articulate the America's murder rate in the greater availability of guns, the expansion of illegal drug markets, greater racial discrimination, more exposure to violence, and sharper economic imbalance. This book contains the evidential value related with sociological and psychological factors based on American society

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