...This chapter examines the ethical issues associated with criminal offending by presenting a conceptualization of crime within the context of social contract theory. It also considers two issues relevant to psychiatry: the common problem of the person with a mental illness and the professional...

... conditions employment criminal offending mental health conditions Military families can impart lessons to us all about strength as well as vulnerability. Mental illness in returning deployed military members can pose reintegration problems for both the members and their respective families. A variety...

... rates of criminal offending, and consequently higher punishment levels. It considers the close connection between race and criminal offending in the United States. Finally, the relationship between human capital and participation in crime is discussed. Incarceration relationship with socioeconomic...

...This chapter describes the relevance of the neighborhood context in the explanation of persistence in and desistance from criminal offending, with a particular focus on the behavior of former prisoners. It first presents facts about the geographic distribution of returning prisoners. Next...

... aims at preventing crime or criminal offending in the first instance—before the act has been committed. Each, importantly, takes place outside of the formal criminal justice system, representing an alternative, perhaps even socially progressive way to reduce crime. This comprehensive publication...

... contingent valuation criminal career s Piquero Alex R victimization preschool intellectual enrichment early prevention imprisonment delinquency criminal offending life-course development economic analysis benefit-cost analysis evidence-based policy As part of a larger menu of strategies, both...

...This chapter examines persistence and desistance in criminal offending. Persistence in criminal offending may be observed when subjects are followed for a sufficiently long period and found to have maintained a certain level of offending. Desistance is discussed when offending declines to a zero...

...This chapter explores the link between past and subsequent criminal activity (another robust finding in criminology). The strong positive association between past and subsequent criminal offending is one of the most agreed, yet least well understood facts about law breaking behavior. Individuals...

... centuries. It addresses specifically the different forms of criminal offending and the changing interpretations and understandings of that offending at both elite and popular levels. It explores how both old regimes and the new nation states, that emerged in the early 19th century, responded to criminal...

... to understand trajectories as a criminological endeavor. Its objective is to determine whether the age–crime curve of criminal offending found at the societal level also applies to the individual level and whether an individual’s criminal career can be modeled without including the structural elements of career...

...This article introduces crime prevention, which often refers to the attempts to prevent crime or criminal offending before the actual act has been committed. It studies four main crime prevention strategies, namely developmental prevention, community prevention...

... ratio in criminal offending and the age–crime curve. The chapter also provides a discussion on the distal causes of traits conducive to criminal behavior as well as a Darwinian explanation of why humans can be altruistic toward some humans yet victimize others. Cosmides L criminology Tooby J Cooper J...

...This chapter presents a descriptive summary of the data employed in the California study. It documents basic information regarding characteristics of the juvenile offenders, including the nature of the extent and breadth of their criminal offending (for example, number of arrest charges) and other...