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Criminal Behavior: A Psychosocial Approach | 
 enlarge | Author: Curt R. Bartol
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 378195
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 6
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 516
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0130918377
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.3
EAN: 9780130918376
ASIN: 0130918377
Publication Date: January 15, 2002
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Condition: A lot of highlighting/underlining and notes6th Edition.ACCEPTABLE with noted wear to cover and pages. Binding intact. We offer a no hassle guarantee on all our items. Orders are generally shipped no later than next business day. We offer a no hassle guarantee on all our items.
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This volume uses a cognitive-behavioral and interactionist approach, integrating international theory and research and moving from broad, theoretical explanations and descriptions of crime toward empirical research on specific criminal offenses. Viewing the criminal offender as being embedded and continually influenced by multiple systems within the psychosocial environment, the book examines the causes, classification, prediction, prevention intervention, and treatment of criminal behavior from a social psychological perspective. The Sixth Edition presents the criminal offender as existing on a continuum, ranging from the serious, repetitive offender that begins his/her criminal career at a very young age to the adolescent-limited offender who usually begins offending during adolescence. This overview provides readers with an explanation of the elements of criminal behavior including juvenile delinquency, developmental factors, the origins of criminal behavior, biological factors, mentally disordered offender, human aggression and violence, criminal homicide and assault, offenses, economic issues, drugs and correctional psychology. For individuals interested in criminal behavior, criminology and the psychology of crime.
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Criminal Behavior : A Psychosocial Approach (7th Edition February 24, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This has been an extremely helpful book for criminal justice majors and psychology majors alike. I would reccomend this as a do not sell at the end of the semester, it is one to keep.
 excelent October 4, 2005
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
excelent condition of the book, although it took quite a while to get delivered.
 Decent, But Riddled With Sloppy Factual Errors June 2, 2004
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book attempts to be fair, but is rife with wrong or misleading information. I think the author tries to cover too much ground, and winds up out of his element.pp 391-392 "When a user is under the drug's (MDMA) effects, the user is often referred to as "rolling" because of the up-and-down rolling of emotions." "Rolling" refers to the way eyes tend to move around when a person is on this drug. It has nothing to do with a supposed emotional rollercoaster. Furthermore, this drug causes no such flapping of emotions. MDMA causes one big up of euphoria and elation, followed by one big crash. p 392. "Other adverse side effects of MDMA include heart, liver damage, strokes, and long-term brain injury." While nobody is saying this substance is healthful, the apparent neurotoxicity is a hotly debated issue. Long-term neurological damage has not been established. Most of the research behind these claims comes from George Ricaurte at Johns Hopkins, and his work has absolutely not been universally accepted.
Not a Bad Book May 16, 2000
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
This book is pretty good as a first text in a criminal psychology class. It has a lot of information about current and old research in the field. The only thing that keeps this book from being 4 or 5 stars, is the fact that it's pretty dry, and a little difficult to read.
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