Inside the criminal mind / Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Samenow, Stanton E., 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal psychology.

Juvenile delinquents--Psychology.

Juvenile delinquents.

Juvenile delinquents--Rehabilitation--United States.

Juvenile delinquents--Rehabilitation.

United States.

Criminals--Rehabilitation--United States.

Criminals.

Criminals--Rehabilitation.

Physical Description:

xvii, 349 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

Revised and updated edition, First Revised Paperback Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Broadway Books, [2014]

Summary:

In 1984, this groundbreaking book offered readers an illuminating window into the workings of the criminal mind and a revolutionary approach to "habilitation." In 2004, armed with twenty years of additional knowledge and insight, Samenow explored the subject anew, using his vast expertise to explain the thought patterns of those who commit the crimes we were most concerned with in the new millennium, such as domestic violence, Internet victimization, and terrorism. The fields of criminal behavior have expanded, demanding another updated version, which includes an exploration of computers as a vehicle for criminal conduct, new drugs and pharmaceutical influences; exposure to the rawest forms of violence in video games, films, and television broadcasts; social media as an arena for illicit activities, and updated genetic and biological research into whether some people are "wired" to become criminals. Throughout, we learn from Samenow's four decades of experience how truly vital it is to know who the criminal is an how he or she thinks differently. Only once equipped with that crucial understanding can we reach reasonable, compassionate, and effective solutions. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Failure to Identify Causes of Crime 7

2 Parents Don't Turn Children into Criminals: The Child Rejects the Parents 20

3 Peer Pressure: No Excuse for Crime 47

4 "To Hell with School" 67

5 Work and the Criminal 91

6 "Life Is a One-Way Street-My Way": Thinking Errors and the Criminal Personality 111

7 Sex for Conquest and a Buildup of the Self 134

8 Simmering Anger Flaring into Rage 159

9 Criminality Is Primary, Drugs Secondary 175

10 The Criminal as Terrorist 193

11 "Decent People" 206

12 Mental Illness, or a Criminal Personality? 225

13 Locked Up 255

14 "Rehabilitation" Revisited 274

15 To Change a Criminal 291

16 "Habilitation" or More Crime? 324.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-342) and index.

ISBN:

9780804139908

0804139903

OCLC:

870663531