Psychosocial Criminology

Name: Psychosocial Criminology
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ISBN: 9781412900799

ISBN-10: 1412900794

ISBN-13: 9781412900799

Edition: 2007

Authors: David Gadd, Tony Jefferson

List price: $74.00

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Psychosocial Criminology demonstrates how a psychosocial approach can illuminate the causes of particular crimes, challenging readers to re-think the similarities and differences between themselves and those involved in crime. The book critiques existing psychological and sociological theories before outlining a more adequate understanding of the criminal offender. It sheds new light on a series of crimesrape, serial murder, racial harassment, jack-rolling (mugging of drunks), domestic violenceand contemporary criminological issues such as fear of crime, cognitive-behavioral interventions and restorative justice. Authors David Gadd and Tony Jefferson bring together theories about…

Book details

List price: $74.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
Publication date: 10/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.51" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Why Psychosocial Criminology?


Psychology and the Criminological Subject


Sociology and the Criminological Subject


Towards a Psychosocial Subject


the Case of Gender


Anxiety, Defensiveness and the Fear of Crime


Feminism, Ambivalence and Date Rape


Vulnerability, Violence and Serial Murder


The Case of Jeffrey Dahmer


Understanding the Perpetrators of Racial Harassment


Re-reading 'The Jack-Roller' as a Defended Subject


Domestic Abuse, Denial and Cognitive Behavioural Interventions


Restorative Justice, Reintegrative Shaming and Intersubjectivity