Criminal Behavior : The Underlyings, and Contemporary Applications / edited by Sevgi Güney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Güney, Sevgi, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal behavior.

Criminal psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : IntechOpen, 2023.

Summary:

This book delves into criminal behaviors and the various individual and psychosocial factors that contribute to their emergence. It also explores contemporary approaches and rehabilitation methods. Mental health and forensic professionals will find key models and applications that can be readily used. As the first printed source in the field of forensic clinical psychology, this book covers studies and intervention methods related to crime and criminal behaviors. This includes identifying the offender, matching and comparing offender behaviors with crime scene findings, and evaluating these behaviors at the legal level to correct and prevent criminal behaviors. Over the last decade, forensic clinical psychology has become a scientific discipline that has garnered the attention of mental health and forensic science professionals around the world.

Contents:

1. Criminal Behavior and Youth Crime: A Juvenile Delinquency Perspective on Adverse Childhood Experience

2. Exploring the Correlates of Arrest for Violent and Serious Crimes in Children and Adolescents: Mental Health Implications

3. Perspective Chapter: Serial Killers - The Severest of Criminal Behaviors

4. Perspective Chapter: Rationality, Social Norms, and Dishonesty in Everyday Life

5. The History of Corruption within Victoria, Australia

6. The Relevance of Personality to Criminal Behavior

7. Perspective Chapter: Personality and Criminal Behaviors

8. Psychopathology and Criminal Behaviors

9. Criminal Behavior and Toxic Environment

10. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the Link to Antisocial, Delinquent, and Criminal Behaviors

11. Perspective Chapter: Crime Scene Investigation in Criminal Behavior Cases - Forensic Biology, Forensic Entomology and Forensic Entomotoxicology

12. Perspective Chapter: Criminal Responsibility

13. Psychodynamic Short-Term Therapy for Criminal Behaviors

14. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Criminal Behaviors

15. Perspective Chapter: Positive Psychotherapy for Criminal Behaviors

16. Perspective Chapter: Rehabilitation Programs in Penitentiary Institutions - The Case of Turkey.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-83769-483-4