Psychology of Criminal Behaviour A Canadian Perspective Canadian 2nd Edition Brown Test Bank

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0132980053
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0132980050
Author: Shelley Brown; Ralph Serin; Adelle Forth; Kevin Nunes

This Canadian text examines the intersection of criminal behaviour, the theory behind it, and the application of evidence-based practice to its study. It explores the Canadian criminal justice system, Canadian research and Canadian crime. Criminal Behaviour and Psychology is very accessible to students, and has a focus on empirical research to support key theories and practice. Contemporary themes are also highlighted to give this book a truly Canadian perspective.

Criminal Psychology, 2e is intended for use by Canadian students interested in studying the psychology of crime.

Table contents:

Chapter 1 Crime in Canada
Learning Objectives
Context
The Influence of the Media
Definitions
What Is Crime?
Why do we Care?
Federal and Provincial Corrections
Career Profiles
Correctional Officer (blended to reflect duties in both provincial and federal corrections)
Parole Officer (federal, institutional)
Probation Officer (similar to a federal parole officer in the community)
Psychologist
Professor
A Career in Corrections
Theories of Criminal Conduct
What is Correctional Psychology?
Crime Trends
Crime Severity Index
Crime Victimization
Public Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System
Variation in Crime by Source
Length of Sentences
Variations Across Provinces
International Context
Methodology
Determinants of Crime
Correlates, Risk Factors, and Causal Factors
Factors Associated with Criminal Conduct
Linking the Research to the Case Studies
Future Directions
Summary
Discussion Questions
Chapter 2 Theories of Crime: Biological and Evolutionary Explanations
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Context
Definitions
Why do we Care?
What Makes a Strong Theory?
Methodology
How Is Biology-Focused Research Conducted?
Biological Theories of Crime
Genetics and Crime—Twins, Adoption, and Molecular Genetics
Twin Studies
Adoption Studies
Molecular Genetics Research
Neurochemistry and Crime—Hormones and Neurotransmitters
Hormones and Crime
Neurotransmitters and Crime
Psychophysiology and Crime
The Brain and Crime—Neuroimaging and Neuropsychology
Brain Imaging
Neuropsychology
Other Biological Considerations—Pregnancy, Birth Complications, Toxins, and Diet
Evolutionary Theories of Crime
Evolution 101: Natural Selection, Adaptation, and Beyond
Methodology
How Is Evolutionary Research Conducted?
Evolution and Crime: What Do We Know?
Life History Theory and Antisocial Behaviour
Psychopathy
Homicide
Female-Perpetrated Crime
Future Directions
Summary
Discussion Questions
Chapter 3 Theories of Crime: Learning and Environment
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Context
Definitions
Why do we Care?
Methodology
Psychodynamic Theories
Basic Psychodynamic Principles: The Id, Ego, and Superego
Psychodynamic Theories of Crime
Bowlby’s Theory of Maternal Deprivation
Unravelling Juvenile Delinquency: The Work of Glueck and Glueck
Hirschi’s Control Theories
Learning Theories and Crime
Classical Conditioning
Eysenck’s Biosocial Theory of Crime
Operant Conditioning
Principles of Operant Conditioning
Application of Operant Conditioning Principles to Criminal Behaviour
Social Learning Theories and Crime
Sutherland’s Differential Association Theory
Akers’ Social Learning Theory
Andrews and Bonta’s Personal, Interpersonal, and Community-Reinforcement Theory
Future Directions
Summary
Discussion Questions
Chapter 4 Canadian Corrections in Practice
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Context
Why do we Care?
What Happens When Someone Goes to Prison?
Assessment Approaches and Effectiveness
Risk Assessment
General Recidivism Prediction
Common Risk Instruments
Key Decision Points Using Risk Assessment
Pre-Trial
Custody Classification
Assessment Domains in Offender Classification
Impact of Offender Classification
Pre-Release
Community Supervision and Dynamic Risk
Using the Law to Change Criminal Behaviour
Purposes of Sentencing
Deterrence
Using Correctional Psychology to Change Criminal Behaviour
Model for Offender Change
Restorative Justice
Does Restorative Justice Work?
Offender Rehabilitation
What Does an Effective Program Look Like?
Risk
Criminogenic Need
Responsivity
Describing a Correctional Program
Sample Program Content
Program Evaluation and Accreditation
Program Effectiveness
Core Correctional Practice
Future Directions
Summary
Discussion Questions
Chapter 5 Adolescent Offenders
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Context
The History of Youth Justice in Canada
Why do we Care?
Youth Crime Rates-
Youth Sentences
Impact on Canadians
Definitions
Methodology
Theories of Adolescent Offending
Biological Theories
Cognitive Theories
Social Theories
Factors Associated with Criminal Conduct among Adolescent Offenders
What Do Canadian Youth Report?
Protective Factors
Assessment Approaches and Effectiveness
Assessing the Under-12-Year-Old
Rates of Behaviour Disorders in Children
Assessing the Adolescent
Risk Assessment Tools Used with Adolescent Offenders in Canada
Adolescent Chemical Dependency Inventory (ACDI)—Corrections Version II
Criminal Sentiments Scale (CSS)
HCR-20
Level of Service Inventory—Ontario Revised (LSI-OR)
Offender Risk Assessment and Management System (ORAMS)
Inmate Security Assessment (ISA)—Young Offenders
Primary Risk Assessment (PRA)—Young Offenders
Pride in Delinquency Scale (PID)
Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY)
Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (YLS/CMI)
Youthful Offender—Level of Service Inventory (YO-LSI)
Treatment Approaches and Effectiveness
Primary Intervention Strategies
Family-Oriented Strategies
School-Oriented Strategies
Community-Wide Strategies
Secondary Intervention Strategies
Tertiary Intervention Strategies
Guiding Principles and Recommendations for Reducing Antisocial Behaviour
Future Directions
Summary
Discussion Questions
Chapter 6 Economically Motivated Offenders
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Context
Definitions
Why do we Care?
Methodology
Categories of Economically Motivated Crime
White-Collar Crime
Profiling the White-Collar Criminal
Profiling Victims of White-Collar Crime
Public Perceptions of White-Collar Crime
Theft
Property Crime
Fraud
Identity Theft: A Special Case of Fraud
Cybercrime
Cyberbullying
Prostitution
The Male Client
The Pimp
Organized Crime
Extent of Organized Crime in Canada
How do Organized Crime Networks Operate?
Organized Crime and the Sex Trade
Organized Crime and the Drug Trade
Organized Crime and Fraud
Group Types in Organized Crime and Street Gangs
Theories of Economically-Motivated Crime
Explaining Property and Theft
Explaining Fraud
Explaining Cybercrime
Explaining Prostitution
Explaining the Drug Trade
Explaining Gangs
Factors Associated with Criminal Conduct among Economically-Motivated Offenders
Property Crime
Fraud and White-Collar Crime
Cybercrime
Prostitution
Drug Trade
Gangs
Assessment Approaches and Effectiveness
Property Crimes and Fraud
Cybercrime
Prostitution
Drug Trade
Gangs
Treatment Approaches and Effectiveness
White-Collar Crime Legislation
Property Crime Interventions
Fraud Interventions
Cybercrime Interventions
Prostitution Interventions
Drug Trade Interventions
Gang Interventions
Future Directions
Summary
Discussion Questions
Chapter 7 Substance Abusing Offenders
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Context
Definitions
Why do we Care?
Methodology
Theories of Substance Abuse
The Brain and Addictions—The Disease Model
Genetics and Substance Abuse
The Social Learning or “Choice” Model
The Self-Medication Model
Theories Explaining the Subtance Abuse/Crime Link
Factors Associated with Crime Among Substance Abusing Individuals
Type of Drug by Type of Crime: An Interaction Effect?
Presence of Additional Risk Factors
Protective Factors
Assessment Approaches and Effectiveness
Treatment Approaches and Effectiveness
Legislation
Drug Treatment Courts
A Typical Corrections-Based Substance Abuse Treatment Program
Methadone Maintenance Programs
Do Corrections-Based Methadone Maintenance Programs Work?
Motivational Interviewing
Does Motivational Interviewing Work?
Large-Scale Evaluations of Prison-Based Substance Abuse Programs
Substance Abusing Programming within Correctional Service Canada (CSC)
Does NSAP Work?
Future Directions
Summary
Discussion Questions
Chapter 8 Violent Offending: General Violence and Homicide
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Context
Definitions
Reactive versus Instrumental Violence
Homicide
Multiple Murder: Definitions and Characteristics
Terrorism
Hate Crimes
Why do we Care?
Scope of Violence
Offence Characteristics
Impact on Victims
Theories of Violent Offending
Social Learning Theory
General Aggression Model
Evolutionary Psychological Perspective
Methodology
Factors Associated with Violence
Assessment Approaches and Effectiveness
Recidivism Rates
Approaches
Instruments
Violence Risk Appraisal Guide-Revised (VRAG-R)
HCR-20 Violence Risk Assessment Scheme
Self-Appraisal Questionnaire (SAQ)
Violent Extremist Risk Assessment (VERA)
Accuracy
Treatment Approaches and Effectiveness
Effectiveness
Future Directions
Summary
Discussion Questions
Chapter 9 Intimate Partner Violence
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Context
Definitions
Why do we Care?
Prevalence and Nature of Intimate Partner Violence
Male Victims of Intimate Violence
Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence
Typologies of Female Victims
Triggers for Violence
Victims’ Response to Abuse
Methodology
Studying Intimate Violence in the Lab
Theories of Intimate Violence
Factors Associated with Intimate Partner Violence
Assessment Approaches and Effectiveness
Treatment Approaches and Effectiveness
Treatment: Which Treatment for Whom?
Future Directions
Summary
Discussion Questions
Chapter 10 Mentally Disordered Offenders
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Context
Definitions
Mental Disorders and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)
Unfit to Stand Trial (UFST)
Not Criminally Responsible on Account of Mental Disorder (NCRMD)
Why do we Care?
The Effects of Deinstitutionalization on the Prison Population
Mental Disorder and Stigma
Prevalence of Mental Disorders among Offenders
Prevalence of Personality Disorders
Methodology
Theories Linking Mental Disorder and Crime
Symptoms of Mental Disorder that Increase Risk of Violence
Factors Associated with Criminal Conduct among Mentally Disordered Offenders
Mental Disorder: Associations with Crime, Violence, and Recidivism
Protective Factors
Assessment Approaches and Effectiveness
Assessment of Mental Health Indicators
Assessment of Risk of Suicide
Assessment of Risk of Future Criminal and Violent Behaviour
HCR-20
Start
SAPROF
Treatment Approaches and Effectiveness
Diversion
Intervention
Future Directions
Summary
Discussion Questions
Chapter 11 Psychopathic Offenders
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Context
Definitions
DSM: Changing Conceptualizations of Psychopathy
Why do we Care?
Prevalence of Psychopathy
Survivors: The Impact of Being a Victim of a Psychopath
Methodology
Theories of Psychopathy
Cognitive Models
Developmental Models
Genetics Models
Brain-Based Models
Assessment Approaches and Effectiveness
Self-Report Methods
Psychopathic Personality Inventory–Revised (PPI-R) (Lilienfeld and Widows 2005)
Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (SRP-III) (Paulhus et al. forthcoming)
Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (TriPM) (Patrick, Fowles, and Krueger 2009)
Business Scan (B-Scan Self; B-Scan 360) (Babiak and Hare forthcoming)
Rater-Based Methods
Hare Psychopathy Checklist–Revised (PCL-R) (Hare 2003)
Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV) (Hart et al. 1995)
The Dark Triad: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy
Assessing Psychopathy in Youth
Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory (YPI) (Andershed, Kerr, Stattin, and Levander 2002)
Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD) (Frick and Hare 2001)
Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV) (Forth, Kosson, and Hare 2003)
Assessing Psychopathic Traits in Youth: Concerns
Relationship between Psychopathy and Crime
Treatment Approaches and Effectiveness
Future Directions
Summary
Discussion Questions
Chapter 12 Sexual Offenders
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Context
Definitions
Why do we Care?
Scope of Sexual Offending
Consequences for Victims
Theories of Sexual Offending
Finkelhor’s Four Factor Model
Evolutionary Explanation of Rape
Seto’s Motivation–Facilitation Model of Child Sexual Offending
Methodology
Factors Associated with Sexual Offending
Deviant Sexual Interests
General Antisociality
Childhood Sexual Abuse
Beliefs Regarding Sexual Offending
Emotional Congruence with Children
Assessment Approaches and Effectiveness
What About Dynamic Risk Factors?
Violence Risk Scale—Sexual Offender Version (VRS-SO)
Estimate of Risk of Adolescent Sexual Offense Recidivism (ERASOR)
Treatment Approaches and Effectiveness
Treatment Approaches
Pharmacological Treatment
Behavioural Treatment
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy
Effectiveness
Future Directions
Summary
Discussion Questions
Chapter 13 Female Offenders
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Context
Definitions
Why do we Care?
Girls, Women, and Correctional Sanctions
Prevalence and Nature of Female-Perpetrated Crime
Understanding the Context of Female-Perpetrated Crime
Methodology
To Quantify or Qualify?
Theories of Female Offending
Feminist Pathways Perspective
Personal, Interpersonal, and Community-Reinforcement (PIC–R) Theory
Factors Associated with Female Offending
Individual Risk Factors
Criminal History
Antisocial Personality and Impulsivity
Criminal Attitudes
Poor Self-Efficacy/Poor Self-Esteem/Disempowerment
Poor Mental Health
Substance Abuse
Familial Risk Factors
Childhood Maltreatment
Negative Parental Factors
Relational Risk Factors: Beyond Criminal Friends
Relationships with Criminal Friends
Negative Relationships with Intimate Partners
Community/Structural Risk Factors
Poor School Performance/Employment Difficulties
Poor Community Functioning
Economic Marginalization and Patriarchy
Summary
Protective Factors
Assessment Approaches and Effectiveness
Gender-Neutral Risk-Assessment Instruments
Criticisms of Gender-Neutral Instruments
Gender-Informed Risk Instrument
Treatment Approaches and Effectiveness
Canadian Approaches
Global Developments
Specific Treatment Targets
Criticisms of the Gender-Neutral Correctional Treatment Model
Future Directions
Summary
Discussion Questions
Chapter 14 Aboriginal Offenders
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Context
Definitions
Why do we Care?
Methodology
Theories of Aboriginal Overpresentation
Potential Explanations of Aboriginal Overrepresentation
Higher Aboriginal Offending Rates
A Tendency to Commit More Violent Crime
Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System
The Socio-Economic Disadvantage of Aboriginal People
Root Causes of Aboriginal Overrepresentation
Attempts to Reduce Aboriginal Overrepresentation
Factors Associated with Offending among Aboriginals
Childhood Risk Factors
Adult Risk Factors
Assessment Approaches and Effectiveness
Level of Service Inventory–Revised (LSI–R)
Statistical Information on Recidivism (SIR) Scale
Custody Rating Scale (CRS)
Aboriginal-Specific Risk-Assessment Instruments
Risk of Reoffending among Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Offenders
Treatment Issues and Approaches
The Treatment Needs of Aboriginal Offenders
Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Treatment Programs
Aboriginal Healing Lodges
Does Paying Attention to Culture Matter?
Future Directions
Summary
Discussion Questions
References
Name Index
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Subject Index