Our understanding of criminal behaviour and its causes has been too
long damaged by the failure to integrate the emotional,
psychological, social and cultural influences on the way people
behave. This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to
criminal behaviour, examining and integrating perspectives from
criminology and psychology. It proposes a range of 'psychosocial'
approaches that seek to understand the emotions that surround
criminal behaviour, allowing for an exploration of individual
differences and social and cultural issues that help to bridge the
gap between disciplinary approaches. It offers substantive chapters
on a range of topics, including: mental disorder and the
relationship between mental health and offending; criminal career
research; youth crime and the question of criminal responsibility;
gender and crime; and violent crime, including homicide and sexual
crime. This new edition has been fully updated, including a revised
opening chapter that offers an introduction to psychosocial
criminology, up-to-date discussion of changes in the criminal
justice system in the context of mental health, and two new
chapters on race and crime, and public violence, extremism and
terrorism. This book is essential reading for students taking a
range of courses on criminal behaviour, criminological theory,
criminal psychology and psychological criminology.
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