Violent Offenders: Theory, Research, Policy, and Practice

by DeLisi, Matt; Conis, Peter J.

• ISBN13: 9780763797904
• ISBN10: 0763797901
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-26
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Summary

Violent Offenders: Theory, Research, Public Policy and Practice, Second Edition is a collection of original scholarship from an international collection of applied and academic criminologists. This text contains cutting-edge material on the broad category of criminal predators, including homicide offenders, sex offenders, financial predators, and conventional street criminals. Unlike other texts on the subject that narrowly focus on one type of criminal (e.g., serial killers), this updated Second Edition illustrates the systemic importance of predation in antisocial behavior. This book is divided into two parts; part one contains theory and research on violent offenders, and part two covers the policy and practice of responding to violent offenders.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. VII
Reviewers	p. IX
Contributors	p. XI
Theory and Research	p. 1
The Importance of Violent Offenders to Criminology	p. 3
The Overlap of Violent Offending and Violent Victimization: Assessing the Evidence and Explanations	p. 17
Community-Level Correlates of Crime	p. 39
Where I'm From: Criminal Predators and Their Environments	p. 55
Cyber-Related Violence	p. 75
Still Psychopathic After All These Years	p. 95
The Behavioral Genetics of Predatory Criminal Behavior	p. 109
Vigilance, Violence, and Murder in Mateships	p. 125
Early Risk Factors for Young Homicide Offenders and Victims	p. 143
Generality of Deviance and Predation: Crime-Switching and Specialization Patterns in Persistent Sexual Offenders	p. 161
Comparing Women and Men Who Kill	p. 185
Female Sexual Offending	p. 207
Gang Involvement and Predatory Crime	p. 221
The Heterogeneity of Predatory Behaviors in Sexual Homicide	p. 235
Policy and Practice	p. 257
Focused Deterrence Strategies and the Reduction of Gang and Group-Involved Violence	p. 259
Arrested Today, Out Tomorrow: Patrol Officers' Perceptions of a Broken Justice System	p. 281
Sex Offenders on the Internet: Cyber-Struggles for the Protection of Children	p. 301
Prosecuting Criminal Predators	p. 319
Alternative Adjudication Methods for Offenders with Mental Health Problems	p. 335
Violent Offenders: A Perspective on Dynamic Federal Supervision Practices	p. 351
Criminal Predatory Behavior in the Federal Bureau of Prisons	p. 369
Institutional Misconduct Among Capital Murderers	p. 383
Civil Commitment Laws for Sexual Predators	p. 401
Sex Offender Registries and Criminal Predators	p. 419
Running to Stand Still? Reentry and Violent Offenders	p. 433
Name Index	p. 449
Subject Index	p. 453
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