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Violent offenders and their victims : restorative justice through mediation / Chad C. Breckenridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Breckenridge, Chad C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mediation.
- Restorative justice.
- Neuropsychiatry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2018.
- Summary:
- Violent Offenders and Their Victims is a holistic and human exploration of the nature of violence and its genesis. Chad C. Breckenridge provides a complete psychoanalytic, child developmental, and neurobehavioral understanding of empathic failure and violence. Breckenridge reviews current thinking about the criminal personality from both a psychological and sociological perspective and provides a foundation for the possibility of change and growth in offenders.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Child development theory
- Trauma theory
- Criminology, violence, and restorative justice
- Neuropsychiatry
- The village
- The exception and the rule
- The universe
- Pilot study cases
- Conclusion
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4985-5852-6
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