Violent offenders
Subtitle: theory, research, policy, and practice
By: Matthew DeLisi and Peter Conis
Contributors: Conis, Peter John
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Sudbury, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780763797904
Subjects: Violent crimes; Criminal psychology; Research; Violent offenders; Criminology
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Theory and research; title: The importance of violent offenders to criminology; title: The overlap of violent offending and violent victimization : assessing the evidence and explanations; title: Community level correlates of crime; title: Where i'm from : criminal predators and their environments; title: Cyber-related violence; title: Still psychopathic after all these years; title: The behavioral genetics of predatory criminal behavior; title: Vigilance, violence, and murder in mateships; title: Early risk factors for young homicide offenders and victims; title: Generality of deviance and predation : crimeswitching and specialization patterns in persistent sexual offenders; title: Comparing women and men who kill; title: Female sexual offending; title: Gang involvement and predatory crime; title: The heterogeneity of predatory behaviors in sexual homicide; title: Policy and practice; title: Focused deterrence strategies and the reduction gang and group-involved violence; title: Arrested today, out tomorrow : patrol officers' perceptions of a broken justice; title: Sex offenders on the internet : cyber-struggles for the protection of children; title: Prosecuting criminal predators; title: Alternative adjudication methods for offenders with mental health problems; title: Violent offenders : a perspective on dynamic federal supervision practices; title: Criminal predatory behavior in the federal bureau of prisons; title: Institutional misconduct among capital murderers; title: Commitment laws for sexual predators; title: Sex offender registries and criminal predators; title: Running to stand still? : reentry and violent offenders.