NCJ Number
142522
Date Published
1969
Length
246 pages
Annotation
This wide-ranging analysis of traits, factors, and processes of the human mind provides a perceptive, detailed handbook for the clinical criminologist. While the author stresses a biotypological clinical approach, he also discusses significant environmental influences in delinquency and criminality.
Abstract
Following introductory chapters discussing the science of clinical criminology and the relationship between clinical criminology and personality research, there is a detailed examination of the relationship between mental illness and criminal behavior. Some of the topics covered here include psychopathic personalities; abnormal, primitive, hysterical, and paranoid reactions; organic, schizophrenic, and manic- depressive psychoses; and alcoholism. Subsequent chapters explore the causes of criminality and the criminal personality's broad outlines of criminal semeiotics. Criminogenesis involves the analysis of predisposition to criminality, biocriminogenesis, and psychocriminogenesis. There follows a discussion of the criminodynamics of property offenses, sexual offenses, and violent offenses. The final two chapters deal with crime prevention and rehabilitation of the criminal offender. Chapter references