Criminal

A complete, authoritative guide for professionals charged with identifying the mental health needs of juveniles in the j...

This chilling exploration of the criminal mind posits new and surprising explanations of criminal behavior, from juvenil...

The fields of biology, sociology, and psychiatry all have significant insight into the causes of violent crime, but ther...

The third edition continues the sociological focus on criminological theory of the earlier editions. A new chapter situa...

In the twenty-first-century world of juvenile justice policy and practice, nearly everyone agrees that one of the most p...

In this surprising book, Allan V. Horwitz argues that our current conceptions of mental illness as a disease fit only a ...

This theoretically balanced book provides a thoroughunderstanding of major social problems facing the United States—...

Some of the 52 articles are reprinted from books, journals, and magazines; others were commissioned from specialists in ...

"I highly recommend the second edition of Profiling Violent Crimes for classroom use. It is easy to read and understand,...

Psychopathy remains one of the least understood personality disorders and one of the most intransigent to therapeutic am...

This textbook covers the basics of criminal psychology, with chapters on the definition and variability of criminal cond...

Having previously addressed specific prejudices concerning race, Waller (social psychology, Whitworth College, Spokane, ...