An Introduction to Criminal Psychology

Russil Durrant (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

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Routledge
21 August 2017

Causes & prevention of crime; Criminal or forensic psychology

This book offers a clear, up-to-date, comprehensive, and theoretically informed introduction to criminal psychology, exploring how psychological explanations and approaches can be integrated with other perspectives drawn from evolutionary biology, neurobiology, sociology, and criminology. Drawing on examples from around the world, it considers different types of offences from violence and aggression to white-collar and transnational crime, and links approaches to explaining crime with efforts to prevent crime and to treat and rehabilitate offenders.

This revised and expanded second edition offers a thorough update of the research literature and introduces several new features, including:

detailed international case studies setting the scene for each chapter, promoting real-world understanding of the topics under consideration; a fuller range of crime types covered, with new chapters on property offending and white-collar, corporate, and environmental crime; detailed individual chapters exploring prevention and rehabilitation, previously covered in a single chapter in the first edition; an array of helpful features including learning objectives, review and reflect checkpoints, annotated lists of further reading, and two new features: ‘Research in Focus’ and ‘Criminal Psychology Through Film’.

This textbook is essential reading for upper undergraduate students enrolled in courses on psychological criminology, criminal psychology, and the psychology of criminal behaviour. Designed with the reader in mind, student-friendly and innovative pedagogical features support the reader throughout.

By: Russil Durrant (Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9781138650961
ISBN 10: 113865096X
Pages: 466
Publication Date: 21 August 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Understanding criminal behaviour: an overview 2. Developmental approaches to understanding crime 3. Mental disorder and crime 4. Aggression and violence 5. Violent offending 6. Sexual offending 7. Collective violence 8. Drugs and crime 9. Property offending 10. White-collar, organised, and environmental crimes 11. Crime prevention 12. Criminal justice responses to crime 13. Rehabilitation and reintegration Bibliography Index

Russil Durrant is Senior Lecturer at the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Reviews for An Introduction to Criminal Psychology

The second edition of An Introduction to Criminal Psychology provides an excellent overview of the psychology of crime. The new chapters on property and white collar crime, and expanded treatment of prevention and treatment are valuable additions. Dr Durrant manages to balance deep scholarship and theoretical sophistication with clarity of writing, and his ability to link abstract ideas with practical examples from around the world is unique in my experience. Lecturers will find the new sections on crime and film and research in focus particularly helpful in their teaching. In my view, this is a first rate text and should be on the prescribed reading list for all undergraduate courses on crime and psychology. Tony Ward, MA(Hons), PhD, DipClinPsyc, MNZCCPsych, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand