Understanding Criminal Behaviour

This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to criminal behaviour, examining and integrating perspectives from criminology and psychology and exploring a range of 'psycho-social' approaches to understand the emotions that it.

David Jones is Professor of Philosophy at Kennesaw State University and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i Hilo, USA. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Comparative and Continental Philosophy.

1. The Need for a Psychosocial Criminology; 2. Mental Disorder: Madness, Personality Disorder and Criminal Responsibility; 3. The Contribution of Criminal Career Research; 4. Familial and Parental Influences; 5. Youth Crime; 6. Gender and Crime; 7. Understanding Violence: Learning from Studies of Homicide; 8. Intimate Violence and Sex Crime; 9. Public Violence and crimes of terror; 10. 'Race' and Crime'; 11. Conclusion