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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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Measuring Group Climate in Prison
TL;DR: The authors examined the construct validity and reliability of the Prison Group Climate Instrument (PGCI) in a sample of 77 adolescents placed in a Dutch youth prison and 49 adults prisoners living in a psychiatric prison with a therapeutic living group structure.
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The Role of Offender Risk Assessment: A Policy Maker Guide
Edward J. Latessa,Brian Lovins +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a case plan system that is driven directly from the results of the risk assessment and assists correctional staff in targeting those criminogenic needs that are identified as moderate risk to high risk.
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Recidivism Among Treated Sexual Offenders and Matched Controls Data From the Regional Treatment Centre (Ontario)
TL;DR: In this paper, follow-up data are reported on 89 sexual offenders treated at the Regional Treatment Centre (Ontario) and 89 untreated sexual offenders matched for pretreatment risk. And the average time at risk was 9.9 years.
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Reviving Juvenile Justice in a Get-Tough Era
Jeffrey A. Butts,Daniel P. Mears +1 more
TL;DR: State and local jurisdictions throughout the United States enacted a wide array of new juvenile justice policies in recent years as mentioned in this paper. Many of these policies were intended to make the juvenile justice system more efficient.
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Assessment and treatment of violence–prone forensic clients: an integrated approach
TL;DR: In this paper, a risk-reduction treatment program complemented by a focused assessment, both guided by the risk-need-responsivity principles, is suggested as the preferred treatment for violence-prone individuals with personality disorder.
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TL;DR: It is suggested that delinquency conceals 2 distinct categories of individuals, each with a unique natural history and etiology: a small group engages in antisocial behavior of 1 sort or another at every life stage, whereas a larger group is antisocial only during adolescence.
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The Psychology of Criminal Conduct: Theory, Research and Practice
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