NCJ Number
231120
Date Published
2010
Length
294 pages
Annotation
This book, The Criminal Triad, looks at existing theories in criminal and forensic psychology and presents a new model for understanding the psychosocial development of an individual's propensity to become a criminal.
Abstract
This book is intended for use by criminal justice and legal professionals, as well as criminal psychologists and psychiatrists and those involved in social work, sociology, social welfare, and victimology. The main focus of the book is to examine what "compels a person to choose a life of crime and deviancy over one of responsibility and social conformity". The book is divided into 13 chapters that cover the following topics: 1) The Evolution of Crime; 2) Theoretical Foundations (Part I) - The Psychoanalytic Tradition; 3) Theoretical Foundations (Part II) - The Behaviorist Tradition; 4) Theoretical Foundations (Part III) - The cognitive Tradition; 5) Defining the Criminal Personality Type; 6) Attachment in Early Childhood; 7) Moral Development in Middle-Late Childhood; 8) Morality and the Criminal Triad; 9) Identity Formation in Adolescence; 10) Identity Formation in Adolescence (Part 2); 11) Criminal Beginnings; 12) Intervention Strategies; and 13) Conclusions. The author presents his own interpretation of an individual's internal deterrence system and examines the psychosocial development of each of the proposed component parts: attachment, morality, and identity. Tables, figures, references, and index