Forensic Psychology

by Graham M Davies

  Farrington, D. P (Ed.) (2005). Integrated developmental and life-course theories of offending. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction. This book presents accounts of eight major developmental and life-course theories of offending, by Lahey and Waldman, Piquero and Moffitt, Farrington, Catalano and colleagues, LeBlanc, Sampson and Laub, Thornberry and Krohn, and Wikstrom. It also includes an introduction and conclusion that provides more information about the theories and compares them.

  Farrington, D. P., & Welsh, B. C. (2007). Saving children from a life of crime. Oxford: Oxford University Press. This book reviews what is known about individual, family, socio-economic, peer, school and community influences on offending, and then what is known about individual, family, peer, school and community prevention of offending.

  Lahey, B. B., Moffitt, T. E., & Caspi, A. (Eds.) (2003). Causes of conduct disorder and delinquency. New York: Guilford Press. The chapters in this book present theories by Patterson, Moffitt, Lahey, Wikstrom and Sampson, together with chapters on the development of antisocial behaviour and physical aggression, cognitive factors, biological influences, and animal models of the causes of aggression.

  Piquero, A. R. (Ed.) (2016). The handbook of criminological theory. Chichester: Wiley. This new handbook reviews many criminological theories, including social learning, labelling, biosocial theories, and developmental and life-course theories.

  Wortley, R. (2011). Psychological criminology. London: Routledge. This book reviews biological, personality, developmental, learning, cognition and situational theories of offending.

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