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The Psychology of Criminal Conduct
Demetra Andrews,James Bonta +1 more
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For instance, the authors investigates the relationship between the beginning and maintenance of criminal activity and diverse risk predictors (singular and social, static and dynamic) in the development of criminal behaviour.Abstract:
Throughout the last decades the so-called Psychology of criminal conduct, which agglutinates scientific knowledge surrounding criminal phenomena, has been taking shape. We can find among the principal fields of interests an explanation for antisocial behaviour where learning theories, analyses of individual characteristics, strain-agression hypotheses, studies on social vinculation and crime, and the analyses of criminal careers are relevant. This last sector, also denominated ‘developmental criminology’, investigates the relationship between the beginning and maintenance of criminal activity and diverse risk predictors (singular and social, static and dynamic). Their results have had great relevance in the creation of crime prevention and treatment programs. Psychological treatments of offenders are aimed at the modification of those risk factors, known as ‘criminogenic needs’, which are considered to be directly related to their criminal activity. In particular, treatment programs attempt to provide criminals (whether juveniles, abusers, sexual aggressors, etc.) with new repertoires of prosocial behaviour, develop their thinking, regulate their choleric emotions, and prevent relapses or recidivisms in crime. Lastly, nowadays the Psychology of criminal conduct places special emphasis on the prediction and management of the risk for violent and antisocial behaviour, a field which will be addressed in a subsequent paper of this same monograph.read more
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Construct and Predictive Validity of Criminal Thinking Scales
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Resistance, reluctance, and readiness in perpetrators of abuse against women and children.
Katreena Scott,Connie Bear King +1 more
TL;DR: The purpose of this review is to help standardize the definition and measurement of treatment reluctance as it applies to violence perpetration and to review evidence for the importance of these aspects of client reluctance to intervention.
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Nothing Works Revisited: Deconstructing Farabee's Rethinking Rehabilitation
TL;DR: The authors argue that Farabee's critique has merits, especially about the limited effectiveness of many current prison programs, but his analysis ignores research both favorable to offender treatment and unfavorable to his proposed policy agenda.
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Monetary Benefits and Costs of the Stop Now And Plan Program for Boys Aged 6–11, Based on the Prevention of Later Offending
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the monetary benefits and costs of the SNAP-ORP, a cognitive-behavioral skills training and self-control program, in preventing later offending by boys.
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Assessing the long-term impact of drug court participation on recidivism with generalized estimating equations
TL;DR: Results indicate that participation in drug court was associated with a significant decrease in the likelihood of being arrested in the 12-18 months post-baseline time period, and suggests that drug court participants are more likely than comparable offenders not exposed to drug court to remain arrest free when no longer under community supervision.
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