Closing the Integration Gap in Criminology

The Case for Criminal Thinking

Glenn D. Walters (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

212 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-53085-3 (ISBN)

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Closing the Integration Gap in Criminology: The Case for Criminal Thinking offers a multi -stage model of theory integration that organizes verified risk factors around the construct of criminal thinking to provide an exemplar working paradigm for criminology. In the model, once relevant risk factors have been identified, they are organized into triads —three-variable networks of antecedent, mediating, or moderating effects—and then those triads are combined into clusters of thematically related constructs.

While debate continues to rage over how to handle the burgeoning number of theories in criminology, little significant progress has been made in reducing the number of criminological theories. This book argues that theoretical integration is vital to the continued viability of criminological theory and to the growth and development of criminology as a scientific discipline. It posits that criminal thinking may be useful as a core variable in constructing a useful integrated theory for criminology, and maps out a plan for scholars to organize information for further study.

The innovative theoretical approach in this book is essential reading for students, academics, and researchers in both criminology and forensic psychology concerned with the reduction of crime via scientific inquiry.

Glenn Walters is Professor of Criminal Justice at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. As a forensic psychologist, he worked for three decades in federal government as a clinical psychologist and drug program coordinator for military and federal prison inmates. He has published widely in criminology, including on addiction. He has developed a Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS). He argues that criminality is best understood and prevented by examining how it develops within the context of a person’s life and has critiqued genetic studies via meta -analytic research.

PART I: Integration in Criminology

1. An Integrated Theory of Crime: Vital Mission or Fool’s Errand?
2. A Brief History of Theoretical Integration in Criminology
3. The Latent Structure of Crime-Related Constructs
4. Risk Factors, Triads, and Elaboration

PART II: Integrating with Criminal Thinking

5. Lies, Cons, and Carnival Games: Understanding Criminal Thinking
6. The Mask of Deception: Defining Criminal Thinking
7. Nature of the Beast: Assessing Criminal Thinking
8. Criminal Thinking as a Risk Factor
9. Criminal Thinking in Triads
10. Criminal Thinking and the Elaboration Process
11. Applying Integrated Theory: Practice and Policy
12. You Are What You Think

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Advances in Criminology
Zusatzinfo	13 Tables, black and white; 22 Line drawings, black and white; 22 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	317 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	0-367-53085-6 / 0367530856
ISBN-13	978-0-367-53085-3 / 9780367530853
Zustand	Neuware