Violent Offenders

by Delisi, Matt

• ISBN13: 9780763754792
• ISBN10: 076375479X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-18
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Summary

Violent Offenders: Theory, Research, Public Policy, and Practice provides the latest information to help students Understand The many different types of violent offenders we hear about in the media daily, from homicide and sex offenders to financial predators and street criminals to serial killers and career criminals. The authors have compiled original scholarship from an international collection of applied and academic criminologists to provide students with a realistic and cutting-edge view of why people commit violent crimes and how our criminal justice system, As a whole, responds to these offenders and these violent acts. The text is divided into three sections. Part one covers the theoretical and disciplinary foundations of the study of violent behavior, spanning the disciplines of sociology, psychology, biology, and neuroscience. Part two discusses empirical and topical linkages to criminological subjects, including homicide offenders and victims, sex offenders, and gang members. Part three explores public policy and practical applications describing the various ways that criminal justice systems respond to violent offenders from the insightful perspectives of people who work among violent offenders on a daily basis.  

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vi
Contributors	p. viii
The Importance of Violent Offenders to Criminology	p. 1
Where I'm From: Criminal Predators and Their Environments	p. 15
The Behavioral Genetics of Predatory Criminal Behavior	p. 33
The Socialization of Violent Criminal Offenders: Notes from the Theory of Differential Oppression	p. 49
Biosocial Dynamics: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Violence and Predation	p. 63
Early Risk Factors for Young Homicide Offenders and Victims	p. 79
Generality of Deviance and Predation: Crime-Switching and Specialization Patterns in Persistent Sexual Offenders	p. 97
Comparing Women and Men Who Kill	p. 119
Gang Involvement and Predatory Crime	p. 141
Still Psychopathic After All These Years	p. 155
The Heterogeneity of Predatory Behaviors in Sexual Homicide	p. 169
Criminal Predatory Behavior in the Federal Bureau of Prisons	p. 191
Civil Commitment Laws for Sexual Predators	p. 205
Prosecuting Criminal Predators	p. 221
Institutional Misconduct Among Capital Murderers	p. 237
Sex Offenders on the Internet: Cyber-Struggles for the Protection of Children	p. 255
Sex Offender Registries and Criminal Predators	p. 273
Domestic Abuse Program-Generated Risks of Battered Women	p. 287
Index	p. 301
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