Closing the Integration Gap in Criminology - The Case for Criminal Thinking

List of contents

PART I; 1. An Integrated Theory of Crime: Vital Mission or Fool’s Errand?; 2. A Brief History of Integration in Criminology; 3. The Latent Structure of Crime-Related Constructs; 4. Risk Factors, Triads, and Elaboration; PART II; 5. Lies, Cons, and Carnival Games: Understanding Criminal Thinking; 6. The Mask of Deception: Defining Criminal Thinking; 7. Nature of the Beast: Assessing Criminal Thinking; 8. Criminal Thinking as a Risk Factor; 9. Criminal Thinking in Triads; 10. Criminal Thinking and the Elaboration Process; 11. Applying Integrated Theory: Practice and Policy; 12. You are What You Think; References; Index

About the author

Glenn Walters is Professor of Criminal Justice at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. As a forensic psychologist, he worked for three decades in federal government as a clinical psychologist and drug program coordinator for military and federal prison inmates. He has published widely in criminology, including on addiction. He has developed a Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS). He argues that criminality is best understood and prevented by examining how it develops within the context of a person’s life and has critiqued genetic studies via meta -analytic research.

Summary

Closing the Integration Gap in Criminology: The Case for Criminal Thinking offers a multi -stage model of theory integration that organizes verified risk factors around the construct of criminal thinking to provide an exemplar working paradigm for criminology.

Product details

• Authors: Glenn Walters, Glenn D. Walters
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367347703
• ISBN: 978-0-367-34770-3
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Criminal or forensic psychology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Causes and prevention of crime