Understanding Criminal Behaviour

This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to criminal behaviour, examining and integrating perspectives from criminology and psychology and exploring a range of 'psycho-social' approaches to understand the emotions that it.

David W. Jones is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at The Open University. He is also author of Disordered Personalities and Crime: A Historical Analysis of Moral Insanity (2016).

1. The Need for a Psychosocial Criminology; 2. Mental Disorder: Madness, Personality Disorder and Criminal Responsibility; 3. The Contribution of Criminal Career Research; 4. Familial and Parental Influences; 5. Youth Crime; 6. Gender and Crime; 7. Understanding Violence: Learning from Studies of Homicide; 8. Intimate Violence and Sex Crime; 9. Public Violence and crimes of terror; 10. 'Race' and Crime'; 11. Conclusion