Walters integrates information from traditional criminological models and findings from developmental psychology to form a system of five belief systems (self-view, world-view, past-view, present-view, and future-view) designed to explain crime initiation and maintenance. While reviewing belief systems that support crime, Walters also offers a model of change through which belief systems incongruent with crime can be constructed. He begins with a review of six traditional criminological model...
Men's Violence Against Women: Theory, Research, and Activism
by Christopher Kilmartin and Julie Allison
Forensic Assignment of Violence Risk: A Guide for Risk Assessment and Risk Management
by Mary Alice Conroy and Daniel C. Murrie
Forensic Assessment of Violence Risk: A Guide for Risk Assessment and Risk Management provides both a summary of research to date and an integrated model for mental health professionals conducting risk assessments, one of the most high-stakes evaluations forensic mental health professionals perform.
Loose Leaf for Applied Sport Psychology with Connect Access Card
by Jean M Williams and Vikki Krane
Learning Forensic Assessment (International Perspectives on Forensic Mental Health)
Providing an excellent resource for forensic psychology undergraduate students, this book offers students the opportunity to learn from experts, through the collection of outstanding articles. Unlike other books in the area that are topic specific, it also gives them comprehensive coverage of the subject. Divided into five broad topic areas, it covers: professional issues juvenile assessment criminal forensic assessment civil forensic assessment pervasive issues - malingering and psychopathy....
On October 20, 1973, in San Francisco, a white couple strolling down Telegraph Hill was set upon and butchered by four young black men. Thus began a reign of terror that lasted six months and left fifteen whites dead and the entire city in a state of panic. The perpetrators wanted nothing less than a race war. With pressure on the San Francisco Police Department mounting daily, young homicide detectives Prentice Earl Sanders and his colleague Rotea Gilford both African-American were as- signed...
In 1959, Olathe, Kansas, was made famous by the murder of the Clutter family and Truman Capote's groundbreaking book on the crime, In Cold Blood. But fewer know that Olathe achieved notoriety again in 1982, when a member of Olathe's growing Evangelical Christian population, a gentle man named David Harmon, was bludgeoned to death while sleeping--the force of the blows crushing his face beyond recognition. Suspicion quickly fell on David's wife, Melinda, and his best friend, Mark, student body pr...
Vergewaltigung Von Frauen in Suedafrika (Wurzburger Schriften Zur Kriminalwissenschaft, #21) (Wuerzburger Schriften Zur Kriminalwissenschaft, #21)
by Stefanie Roehrs
Diese Arbeit untersucht anhand der Vergewaltigungshauptstadt der Welt Sudafrika die Ursachen und Folgen von Vergewaltigungen. Insbesondere das Zusammentreffen von historischen und aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Missstanden wie der Integration von Gewalt in das tagliche Leben fuhrt zu einem Klima, das die Begehung von Vergewaltigungen foerdert. Ein Blick auf die individuell-psychischen Wurzeln erklart daruber hinaus, warum einige Manner vergewaltigen, andere dagegen nicht. Im Mittelpunkt dieser Unt...