The psychology of criminal and antisocial behavior : victim and offender perspectives / edited by Wayne Petherick, Grant Sinnamon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Petherick, Wayne, editor.

Sinnamon, Grant, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal investigation--Psychological aspects.

Criminal investigation.

Criminal psychology.

Forensic psychology.

Criminal justice, Administration of--Psychological aspects.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (634 pages) : illustrations (some colour)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : Academic Press, 2017.

Summary:

The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Victim and Offenders Perspectives is not just another formulaic book on forensic psychology.Rather, it opens up new areas of enquiry to busy practitioners and academics alike, exploring topics using a practical approach to social deviance that is underpinned by frontier research findings.

Contents:

Front Cover

The Psychologyof Criminal and Antisocial Behavior

Dedication

The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior : Victim and Offender Perspectives

Copyright

Contents

About the Authors

Foreword

Acknowledgments

1 - Psychopathology as a Mediator of Antisocial and Criminal Behavior

INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS PSYCHOPATHOLOGY??

WHAT IS FORENSIC PSYCHOPATHOLOGY?

MENTAL ILLNESS AND CRIMINALITY

PERSONALITY DISORDERS AND CRIMINALITY

REASSURANCE-DRIVEN PD AND CRIMINALITY

ASSERTIVE-DRIVEN PD AND CRIMINALITY

ANGER RETALIATORY-DRIVEN PD AND CRIMINALITY

PERVASIVE ANGER-DRIVEN PD AND CRIMINALITY

EXCITATION-DRIVEN PD AND CRIMINALITY

MATERIALLY DRIVEN PD AND CRIMINALITY

SELF-PRESERVATION-DRIVEN PD AND CRIMINALITY

PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS AND CRIMINALITY

DISORDERED THINKING AS FOUNDATION TO ANTISOCIAL AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR IN PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS

Obsession

Delusion and Paranoia

Delusional Subtypes With Forensic Association

Jealousy

Paranoid or Persecutory

Erotomania

Delusion as a Feature of Other Forensic Psychopathology

AFFECTIVE DISORDERS AND CRIMINALITY

Major Depression

Postnatal Depression and Women Who Kill Their Children

Bipolar Disorder

Hypermania

Hypomania

Anxiety

INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENTS, ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURIES, AND CRIMINALITY

ADDICTION, ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE, AND CRIMINALITY

CONCLUSION

SUMMARY

QUESTIONS

REFERENCES

2 - Catathymia and Compulsive Homicide: A Psychological Perspective

CATATHYMIC CRISIS

DELUSIONAL CATATHYMIC PROCESS

CHRONIC CATATHYMIC CRISIS

ACUTE CATATHYMIC CRISIS

COMPULSIVE HOMICIDE

UNPLANNED COMPULSIVE HOMICIDE

PLANNED COMPULSIVE HOMICIDE

SADISTIC AGGRESSION

SADISM: BACKGROUND AND POTTED HISTORY

CONCLUSIONS

QUESTIONS.

REFERENCES

3 - Victimology and Predicting Victims of Personal Violence

THE EMERGENCE OF VICTIMOLOGY AND ITS PIONEERS

THE GOLDEN AGE

THE DARK AGE

REEMERGENCE OF THE VICTIM

Key Figures

Hans von Hentig

Benjamin Mendelsohn

Stephen Schafer

Marvin E. Wolfgang and the Concept of Victim Precipitation

THE CONCEPTS OF VICTIM PRECIPITATION AND VICTIM BLAMING

VICTIM PRECIPITATION

VICTIM BLAMING

VICTIM BLAMING IN HOMICIDE

VICTIM BLAMING IN SEXUAL ASSAULT

VICTIM BLAMING IN STALKING

VICTIM BLAMING IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

CONTEMPORARY CONCEPTS

THE LIFESTYLE-EXPOSURE THEORY

ROUTINE ACTIVITY THEORY

VICTIM CHARACTERISTICS AND MOTIVATIONS

VICTIMS OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE: EXPLAINING VICTIM CHARACTERISTICS AND MOTIVATIONS

UNDERSTANDING VICTIM MOTIVATIONS AND BEHAVIOR THROUGH TYPOLOGIES

DEFINING TYPOLOGIES AND THEIR UTILITY

OFFENDER TYPOLOGIES

Groth's Typology

The Hazelwood Typology

The Behavioral-Motivational Typology

UNDERSTANDING VICTIM BEHAVIOR THROUGH OFFENDER TYPOLOGIES

The Victim-Motivational Typology

EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF A SEVEN-FACTOR VICTIM TYPOLOGY

THE "REASSURANCE-ORIENTED TYPE"

A Comparison With Existing Typologies

THE "ANGER-ORIENTED TYPE"

THE "EXCITATION-ORIENTED TYPE"

THE "SUBMISSIVE-ORIENTED TYPE"

THE "SELF-PRESERVATION, EXTERNALLY ORIENTED TYPE"

THE "SELF-PRESERVATION, INTERNALLY ORIENTED TYPE"

THE "DOMINATION-ORIENTED TYPE"

PREDICTING THE CRIME RISK USING THE SEVEN-FACTOR MODEL OF VICTIM CHARACTERISTICS

Self-Preservation, Internally Oriented Victim Type Is Significantly Associated With Risk for Domestic Violence.

Anger Victim Type Is Significantly Associated With Risk of Sexual Assault and Physical Assault

Reassurance Victim Type Is Significantly Associated With Risk of Being Stalked

Anger, Excitation, and Self-Preservation, Externally Oriented Victim Types are Significantly Associated With Risk of Being a Vic...

4 - Threat and Violence Intervention: Influenced by Victim and Offender Perspectives

THE CONSTRUCT OF HUMAN VIOLENT BEHAVIOR AND ITS ASSESSMENT AND LINK TO INTERVENTIONS

INTERVENTIONS

THE INTERVIEW

ADMINISTRATIVE OR DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS

WORKING WITH VICTIMS

CEASE AND DESIST REQUESTS

RESTRAINING ORDERS

INVOLUNTARY MENTAL HEALTH EVALUATIONS AND TREATMENT ORDERS

ARREST, PROSECUTION, AND PROBATION

5 - Profiling in Violent Crimes: The Perpetrator and the Victim in Cases of Filicide

BACKGROUND HISTORY

FILICIDE AS A LEGITIMATE PRACTICE

FILICIDE AS A CRIMINAL PRACTICE

FILICIDE AND ITS RELATION TO MENTAL ILLNESS

DEFINITION OF FILICIDE

THE LEGAL CONCEPT OF FILICIDE

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS OF FILICIDE

INCIDENCE, PREVALENCE AND STATISTICAL PROBLEMS

CRIMINAL AND FORENSIC CHARACTERISTICS OF FILICIDE

THE PERPETRATOR

DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS

HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS

SITUATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS

CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS

OFFENSE CHARACTERISTICS

THE VICTIM

THE METHODS USED TO KILL

CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH

THE MOTIVE

THE CAUSE OF DEATH AND MEDICOLEGAL PROBLEMS

6 - Risk Assessment in Youth Justice: A Child-Centered Approach to Managing Interventions

RISK ASSESSMENT: HOW DOES IT WORK?

CONSEQUENCES OF RISK ASSESSMENT: THE FALSE-POSITIVE/FALSE-NEGATIVE PARADOX.

RISK IN YOUTH JUSTICE: WHAT ARE WE ASSESSING AND WHAT DO WE DO WITH IT?

TOWARD A MORE-INCLUSIVE SYSTEM OF YOUTH JUSTICE: RISK ASSESSMENT AND RESTORATIVE APPROACHES

7 - Reciprocity and Exchange: Perspectives of Male Victims of Family Violence

DEFINING VIOLENCE IN FAMILIES

LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER VIOLENCE

THE GENDER PARADIGM AND GENDER SYMMETRY

FORMS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST MEN

FORMS OF ABUSE

PRECIPITATING FACTORS IN FAMILY VIOLENCE

REPORTABILITY

IMPACTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

REPERCUSSIONS OF GENDER BIAS

MEN AND THEIR CHILDREN

8 - Stalking

WHAT IS STALKING?

STALKING BEHAVIORS

TELEPHONE CALLS

WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS

SURVEILLANCE

CONTACT WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS

UNWANTED GIFTS

OTHER ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGIES

A BRIEF HISTORY OF STALKING AND STALKING LEGISLATION

LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK

INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF STALKING

STALKING TYPOLOGIES AND STALKING RISK ASSESSMENT

PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF STALKING

STALKING AMONG SUBPOPULATIONS

SERIAL STALKING AND RECIDIVISM

9 - Stalking Public Figures: The Fixated Loner

THE STALKING OF PRIVATE CITIZENS AND PUBLIC FIGURES

STRUCTURED RISK ASSESSMENT IN STALKING

THE CONVERGENCE OF STALKING AND PUBLIC FIGURE THREAT ASSESSMENT

KEY CONCEPTS FROM THE FIXATED RESEARCH

MENTAL ILLNESS

WARNING BEHAVIORS

THREAT ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES FOR FIXATED PERSONS

THE FIXATED THREAT ASSESSMENT CENTER - UNITED KINGDOM

QUEENSLAND FIXATED THREAT ASSESSMENT CENTER - QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FIXATED THREAT ASSESSMENT AGENCIES.

FIXATED PERSONS AT MAJOR EVENTS

THE DISORGANIZED

THE CURIOUS

THE SUICIDAL

THE PEST

THE FIXATED MODEL IN OTHER AREAS OF TARGETED VIOLENCE

HIGH-RISK STALKERS

THE "LONE ACTOR"

10 - Circumscribing Cyberbullying: Toward a Mutual Definition and Characterizations of Aggression, Assault, and Recklessness via Telecommunications Technology

BACKGROUND

REACHING CONSENSUS: THE IMPORTANCE OF FIRST THINGS FIRST

RELEVANCE TO RESEARCHERS

RELEVANCE TO RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS

IMPORTANT FOR DETECTION, INTERVENTION, AND TREATMENT

CYBERBULLYING? ONLINE AGGRESSION? INTERNET HARASSMENT? IT'S ALL IN THE NAME

CYBER, ONLINE, OR INTERNET?

BULLYING: AGGRESSION OR HARASSMENT?

INTENT TO HARM

REPETITION

PROVOCATION

IMBALANCE OF POWER

AGGRESSION

HARASSMENT

11 - Domestic Violence: Psychological Issues Related to the Victim and Offender

INTRODUCTORY ASPECTS: FRAMEWORK OF A SOCIAL SCOURGE NAMED DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

THE OFFENDER, VICTIM, AND CONTEXT: RISK FACTORS IDENTIFICATION

OFFENDER RISK

VICTIM RISK

HISTORICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISK

12 - Honor Killings and Domestic Violence: The Same or Different?

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

TYPES OF DV

VICTIMS OF DV

DV OFFENDERS

HONOR KILLINGS

VICTIMS OF HONOR KILLINGS

OFFENDERS IN HONOR KILLINGS

CHARACTERISTICS OF HONOR KILLING AND DV

Honor Killings

Domestic Violence

DISCUSSION

SIMILARITIES IN THE CHARACTERIZATION OF DV AND HONOR KILLINGS

DIFFERENCES IN CHARACTERISTICS OF DV AND HONOR KILLINGS

13 - Homicide in Australia

IMPACT OF HOMICIDE IN AUSTRALIA

WHY PEOPLE KILL.

CHANGES IN HOMICIDE TRENDS.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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ISBN:

0-12-809577-6

OCLC:

967566781