Evolution and Crime

Informationen zum Autor Jason Roach is a Chartered Psychologist, a Reader in Crime and Policing, and the Director of the Crime and Policing Group at the University of Huddersfield. He has worked for the UK Home Office, taught at the Crime Reduction College, and worked in various mental health settings. He has published work on various criminological topics including criminal investigative practice, homicide and violent crime, terrorism, and Offender Self-Selection. Ken Pease is a chartered forensic psychologist and currently Visiting Professor and Fellow of University College London and Visiting Professor at the University Loughbrough. Klappentext Opens up different ways of looking at different aspects of crime and crime control. This book includes chapters on such topics as white collar crime! violent crime! female crime victimisation! environmental criminology and the behaviour of psychopaths. Zusammenfassung This fascinating new book opens up new ways of looking at different aspects of crime and crime control, exploring the potential contribution that a more welcoming approach to the evolutionary perspective would make to criminology. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Crime and Evolution: Strange Companions?, 2. People Who Need People?, 3. Empathy, Theory of Mind and Criminal Behaviour, 4. The Sense of Fairness and the Emergence of Criminal Justice, 5. Violence, 6. Crime: It's a man thing?, 7. Beyond the proximal: evolution, environments and criminal behaviour, 8. The Ultimate Mystery of Inheritance, 9. So What?

Product details

• Authors: Roach Jason, Ken Pease, Ken (University of Loughborough Pease, Pease Ken, ROACH, Jason Roach, Jason (Unviersity of Huddersfield Roach, Roach Jason
• Publisher: Willan Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2010
• EAN: 9781843923923
• ISBN: 978-1-84392-392-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Crime Science Series; Crime Science Series
• 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