The Psychopathology of Crime: Criminal Behavior as a Clinical Disorder

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Gulf Professional Publishing, 1993 - 377 ページ
This lauded bestseller, now available in paperback, takes an uncompromising look at how we define psychopathology and makes the argument that criminal behavior can and perhaps should be considered a disorder. Presenting sociological, genetic, neurochemical, brain-imaging, and psychophysiological evidence, it discusses the basis for criminal behavior and suggests, contrary to popular belief, that such behavior may be more biologically determined than previously thought.

  • Presents a new conceptual approach to understanding crime as a disorder
  • Provides the most extensive review of biological predispositions to criminal behavior to date
  • Presents the practical implications of viewing crime as a psychopathology in the contexts of free will, punishment, treatment, and future biosocial research
  • Includes numerous tables and figures throughout
  • Contains an extensive reference list
  • Analyzes the familial and extra-familial causes of crime
  • Reviews the predispositions to crime including evolution and genetics, and the neuropsychological, psychophysiological, brain-imaging, neurochemical, and cognitive factors
 

目次

Crime in the Context of Evolution
27
Suckers Cheats and Grudgers
33
Sociobiological Theories of Antisocial Personality
40
Summary
46
Neurochemistry
81
Neuropsychology
103
Brain Imaging
129
Psychophysiology
157
Premenstrual Syndrome and Crime
208
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215
Familial Influences
243
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250
Extrafamilial Influences
267
Is Crime a Disorder?
287
Crime as a Disorder and the Status of Biological
312
References
321

EventRelated Potential Studies
178
Head Injury Pregnancy
191
Fetal Maldevelopment and Minor Physical
198

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