| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. I. THE NATURE AND ORIGINS OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR -- 1. Psychology In The Criminal Justice System -- 2. Biological Theories Of Criminal Behavior -- 3. Psychosocial Theories Of Criminal Behavior -- pt. II. PERSONALITY, PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND CRIME -- 4. Brain Syndromes And Substance Abuse -- 5. Schizophrenia And Psychotic Disorders -- 6. Anxiety And Mood Disorders -- 7. Personality Disorders -- 8. Antisocial Personality Disorder And The Psychopath -- pt. III. THE HOMICIDES -- 9. Homicide -- 10. Serial Homicide -- 11. Mass Homicide I: Workplace Violence -- 12. Mass Homicide II: School Violence -- 13. Mass Homicide III: Terrorism And Political Violence -- pt. IV. SEX CRIMES AND FAMILY CRIMES -- 14. Sex Crimes I: Rape And Sexual Assault -- 15. Sex Crimes II: Sexual Offenses Against Children -- 16. Family Crime I: Child Abuse And Family Violence -- 17. Family Crime II: Domestic Violence -- pt. V. OTHER CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -- 18. Stalking And Harassment -- 19. Juvenile Crime -- 20. Other Crimes -- 21. Corrections, The Death Penalty, And Crime Victims. |
| Summary |
Criminal psychology is the application of the principles of normal and abnormal psychology to the understanding, prediction, and control of criminal behavior. Criminal Psychology: Nature, Nurture, Culture provides an in-depth yet readable introduction to the foundations of criminal psychology as it is understood and practiced from the classroom to the courtroom. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Criminal psychology.
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Criminal psychology. |
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Criminal psychology -- Textbooks.
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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| Subject |
Criminal psychology -- United States.
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Textbooks.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780398087159 0398087156 (DLC) 2011036337 |
| ISBN |
9780398087166 (electronic book) |
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0398087164 (electronic book) |
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9780398087159 (hardcover) |
| Standard No. |
(YBP)7223079 |
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