The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior

The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Victim and Offenders Perspectives is not just another formulaic book on forensic psychology. Rather, it opens up new areas of enquiry to busy practitioners and academics alike, exploring topics using a practical approach to social deviance that is underpinned by frontier research findings, policy, and international trends.

From the relationship between psychopathology and crime, and the characteristics of catathymia, compulsive homicide, sadistic violence, and homicide victimology, to adult sexual grooming, domestic violence, and honor killings, experts in the field provide insight into the areas of homicide, violent crime, and sexual predation. In all, more than 20 internationally recognized experts in their fields explore these and other topic, also including discussing youth offending, love scams, the psychology of hate, public threat assessment, querulence, stalking, arson, and cults.

This edited work is an essential reference for academics and practitioners working in any capacity that intersects with offenders and victims of crime, public policy, and roles involving the assessment, mitigation, and investigation of criminal and antisocial behavior. It is particularly ideal for those working in criminology, psychology, law and law enforcement, public policy, and for social science students seeking to explore the nature and character of criminal social deviance.

Autorentext
Wayne Petherick is Associate Professor of Criminology at Bond University in Australia. Wayne's areas of interest include forensic criminology, forensic victimology, criminal motivations, criminal profiling, and applied crime analysis. He has worked on risk and threat cases, a mass homicide, stalking, rape, and a variety of civil suits involving premises liability and crime prevention. He has presented to audiences in Australia and abroad, and has published in a variety of areas including social science and legal works in the areas of criminal profiling, expert evidence, stalking, serial crimes, criminal motivations, and victimology. Wayne is co-editor of Forensic Criminology, and editor of Profiling and Serial Crime: Theoretical and Practical Issues, now in its third edition. Dr. Sinnamon's passion is developmental neurobiology and the structural, systemic and functional impact of early-life experiences on the growing brain. He was among the first researchers to quantify and report the impact of depression on cognitive function in young people. He is the creator of the REPAIR™ Program, a six-step neuroplasticity-based intervention developed to assist children and adults with systemic and functional processing deficits in the brain. Dr. Sinnamon is also the co-founder of the HART-BEAT research alliance at James Cook University's, Australian Institute of Tropical Health Management (AITHM), aimed at creating translational research links between the basic sciences and clinical practice. His current projects include research, lecturing, providing professional development programs, and clinical practice. Along with authoring scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, he has also contributed chapters in Serial Crime and Criminal Profiling and Applied Crime Analysis.

Inhalt

1. Psychopathology as a Mediator of Antisocial and Criminal Behavior
   
   2. Catathymia and Compulsive Homicide: A Psychological Perspective
   3. Victimology and Predicting Victims of Personal Violence
   4. Threat and Violence Intervention: Influenced by Victim and Offender Perspectives
   5. Profiling in Violent Crimes: The Perpetrator and the Victim in Cases of Filicide
   6. Risk Assessment in Youth Justice: A Child-Centered Approach to Managing Interventions
   7. Reciprocity and Exchange: Perspectives of Male Victims of Family Violence
   8. Stalking
   9. Stalking Public Figures: The Fixated Loner
   10. Circumscribing Cyberbullying: Toward a Mutual Definition and Characterizations of Aggression, Assault, and Recklessness via Telecommunications Technology
   11. Domestic Violence: Psychological Issues Related to the Victim and Offender
   12. Honor Killings and Domestic Violence: The Same or Different?
   13. Homicide in Australia
   14. Victims of Child Sexual Abuse: The Psychology of Victims
   15. Child Sexual Offenders: The Psychology of Offending
   16. The Psychology of Adult Sexual Grooming: Sinnamon's Seven-Stage Model of Adult Sexual Grooming
   17. Searching for the Spectrum of the Querulous
   18. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding Internet Love Scams: Implications for Law Enforcement
   19. Firesetters: A Review of Theory, Facts, and Treatment
   20. Cults