Main description:

* The standard work for both students and professionals on the psychology of criminal behavior
* Carefully edited and revised to present the key content of earlier editions and the findings of newer research in clear, easy-to-digest language
* Presented by the authors of the leading risk/needs offender assessment instruments, the Level of Service instruments (LSI-R, LS/CMI, LS-RNR. LSI-R-SV), in use worldwide and translated into Spanish, French, Swedish, Portuguese, and Spanish

Contents:

Part 1: The Theoretical Context and Knowledge Base to the Psychology of Criminal Conduct

Chapter 1: An Overview of the Psychology of Criminal Conduct

Chapter 2: The Empirical Basis to the Psychology of Criminal Conduct

Chapter 3: From Criminology Theories to a Psychological Perspective of Criminal Conduct

Part 2: The Major Risk/Need Factors of Criminal Conduct

Chapter 4: The Biological Basis of Criminal Behavior

Chapter 5: Antisocial Personality Pattern

Chapter 6: The Role of Procriminal Associates and Attitudes in Criminal Conduct

Chapter 7: The Person in Social Context: Family, Marital, School, Work, Leisure/Recreation, and Neighborhood

Chapter 8: Substance Misuse

Part 3: Applications

Chapter 9: The Risk-Need-Responsivity Model of Assessment and Treatment

Chapter 10: Prediction and Classification of Criminal Behavior

Chapter 11: Rehabilitation

Chapter 12: Creating and Maintaining RNR Adherence: A Real-World Challenge

Chapter 13: The Failed Experiment: Getting Tough on Crime

Chapter 14: Criminal Subtypes: Intimate Partner Violence, the Mentally Disordered and Sexual Offenders

Part 4: Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 15: A General Personality and Cognitive Social Learning Perspective of Criminal Conduct: Summary and Conclusions