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Crime and Personality (Psychology Revivals) (Hardcover)
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Crime and Personality (Psychology Revivals) (Hardcover)
Series: Psychology Revivals
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When Crime and Personality was first published in 1964, J.A.C.
Brown, writing in the New Statesman, commented: 'There can be no
doubt of the importance of Professor Eysenck's book on the nature
and treatment of criminal behaviour.' This third edition,
originally published in 1977, had been completely revised and
brought up to date, and although the major theory linking
personality and crime has been retained, many of the details have
been changed in conformity with recent research of the time. The
book presents a theory concerning the personality of criminals, and
offers evidence to show that these personality features
characterising criminals are based on genetic foundations. It is
argued that criminality as a whole is not exclusively based on
environmental factors as has so often been suggested, but has a
strong biological basis. A good deal of evidence is reviewed
showing that there are many data supporting this view, from studies
of identical and fraternal twins, adopted children, and comparisons
between criminals and non-criminals both in the Western world and
in Communist countries. Professor Eysenck suggests that important
consequences follow from such an attempt to redress the one-sided
emphasis on environmental factors which had been so characteristic
of the previous fifty years, and some of these consequences are
described in detail. He further suggests that only proper
understanding of the psychological factors making for antisocial
behaviour will help in reversing the increasing burden that
criminality places upon society. The book also takes issue with
political arguments of the time regarding the origins of
criminality, and shows that criminals behind the Iron Curtain show
the same personality characteristics as do criminals in Western
countries.
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