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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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Predictors of sex offender treatment dropout: Psychopathy, sex offender risk, and responsivity implications.
Mark E. Olver,Steve Wong +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship of psychopathy and sex offender risk to treatment dropout in a sample of 154 federally incarcerated sex offenders treated in a high intensity sex offender treatment program.
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The self-control construct in the general theory of crime: An investigation in terms of personality psychology
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Increasing consensus in the evaluation of offender rehabilitation? lessons from recent research syntheses
TL;DR: In this paper, an update of a meta-analysis on the treatment of adult offenders in German social-therapeutic prisons is presented, followed by an overview of North American meta-analyses that have concentrated mostly on programs with juveniles.
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Clinical, actuarial and dynamic risk assessment of sexual offenders: Why do things keep changing?
Andrew J. Harris,R. Karl Hanson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the changes in risk assessment procedures for sexual offenders over the last 15 years from the viewpoint of two active participants in that change, and describe the various risk assess procedures they have introduced (e.g. STATIC-99, SONAR, STABLE-2007/ACUTE-2007).
Desistance and Development: The Psychosocial Process of Going Straight
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used narrative studies to investigate the human desistance from crime in the early teenage years, which is a well-known phenomenon in criminology, and they found that most young offenders eventually "mature" out of deviant behaviour by the age of 30 or 40.
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