Criminal Psychology

Author: Yang Shilong
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Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: Crime has long been a concern for governments and the public in various countries, and has also attracted attention from academia worldwide. Criminal psychology is a discipline that uses scientific research methods to understand the causes of crime, aiming to prevent and control criminal behavior. This book is a comprehensive and well-structured book on criminal psychology. It is divided into 5 parts and 22 chapters. The introduction section (2 chapters) discusses the meaning, development, and contributions of criminal psychology; the related theories section (2 chapters) explores schizophrenia, mood disorders, antisocial personality, and intellectual disability in relation to crime; the research on crime types section (11 chapters) examines drug abuse, alcoholism, sexual assault behavior, gambling, prostitution, theft, murder, robbery, arson, juvenile crime, and female crime; the criminal psychology and criminal justice section (2 chapters) discusses the application of psychological techniques in criminal investigation and the role of criminal psychology in courts. The publication of this book aims to provide knowledge to criminal justice workers and personnel in higher education, psychology, sociology, law, police, and crime prevention fields, while also playing an active role in advancing the development of criminal psychology as a discipline in China.