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  • Fitting the Facts of Crime

    An Invitation to Biopsychosocial Criminology

    by Chad Posick, Michael Rocque, J.C. Barnes ...
    Biosocial criminology—and biosocial criminologists—focuses on both the environmental and biological factors that contribute to antisocial behavior. Importantly, these two domains are not separate parts of an equation but pieces of the same puzzle that fit together for a complete picture of the causes of crime/antisocial behavior.Fitting the Facts of Crime applies a biopsychosocial lens to the “13 ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Great Debates in Criminology

    by Chad Posick, Michael Rocque ...
    This book explores the role of theory and research in criminology. Adopting a unique and refreshing approach to criminological theory, it focuses on the great debates in criminology from its inception as a field to the present day. It explores the debates that have motivated criminological thought, that have represented turning points in theoretical and empirical trajectories, that have offered ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Desistance from Crime

    New Advances in Theory and Research

    by Michael Rocque ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book represents a brief treatise on the theory and research behind the concept of desistance from crime. This ever-growing field has become increasingly relevant as questions of serious issues regarding sentencing, probation and the penal system continue to go unanswered. Rocque covers the history of research on desistance from crime and provides a discussion of research and theories on the ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • The Criminal Brain, Second Edition

    Understanding Biological Theories of Crime

    by Nicole Rafter, Chad Posick, Michael Rocque ...
    A lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminologyWhat is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists insisted that criminality was innate, inherent in the offender’s brain matter. While they were eventually repudiated as pseudo-scientists, today the pendulum has swung back. Both criminologists and biologists have begun to speak of ... Read more

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    This second edition reviews the new research findings and theoretical advances on fathers, families, child development, programs, and policies that have occurred in the past decade. Contributors from a range of disciplines and countries showcase contemporary findings within a new common chapter structure. All of the chapters are either extensively revised or entirely new. Biological, evolutionary, ... Read more

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  • The Blank Slate

    The Modern Denial of Human Nature

    by Steven Pinker ...
    **A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now."Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --TimeFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize**Updated with a new afterwordOne of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, ... Read more

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  • Mental Disorder in Canada

    An Epidemiological Perspective

    by John Cairney, David L. Streiner ...
    Canada has long been recognized as a leader in the field of psychiatric epidemiology, the study of the factors affecting mental health in populations. However, there has never been a book dedicated to the study of mental disorder at a population level in Canada. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the discipline uses data from the country's first national survey of mental disorder, ... Read more

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  • The Moral Sense

    by James Q. Wilson ...
    Are human beings naturally endowed with a conscience? Or is morality artificially acquired through social pressure and instruction? Most people assume that modern science proves the latter. Further, most of our current social policies are based upon this “scientific” view of the sources of morality. In this book, however, James Q. Wilson seeks to reconcile traditional ideas with a range of ... Read more

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  • Understanding Autism

    Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder

    by Chloe Silverman ...
    How the love and labor of parents have changed our understanding of autismAutism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation. Understanding Autism, a social history of the expanding diagnostic category of this contested ... Read more

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  • A Sociology Of Mental Health And Illness

    by Anne Rogers, David Pilgrim ...
    This book provides a sociological analysis of major areas of mental health and illness. ... Read more

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  • A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health

    Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems

    Edited by Teresa L. Scheid, Tony N. Brown ...
    The second edition of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health provides a comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health. Chapters by leading scholars and researchers present an overview of historical, social and institutional frameworks. Part I examines social factors that shape psychiatric diagnosis and the measurement of mental health and illness, theories that explain the definition ... Read more

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  • Prejudice

    Its Social Psychology

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