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  • Crime Prevention and Treatment Policies

    A Biopsychosocial Approach

    de Anthony Walsh ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    This book shows how to use biopsychosocial assessment for crime prevention and to achieve more individualized treatment for those who commit crimes. Author Anthony Walsh, a prominent figure in biosocial criminology for more than four decades, examines the treatment policy recommendations of major criminological theories and how they might be improved by integrating relevant biopsychosocial ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Taboo Issues in Social Science

    Questioning Conventional Wisdom

    de Anthony Walsh ...
    This book is an expedition into a number of controversial issues in the social sciences with the intention of challenging the conventional wisdom on those issues. While most social science research is interesting and important, a fair amount of social science research is thinly disguised advocacy research in which conclusions too often precede inquiries. The primary topics are those that the ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Science Wars

    Politics, Gender, and Race

    de Anthony Walsh ...
    Few issues cause academics to disagree more than gender and race, especially when topics are addressed in terms of biological differences. To conduct research in these areas or comment favorably on research can subject one to scorn.When these topics are addressed, they generally take the form of philosophical debates. Anthony Walsh focuses upon such debates and supporting research. He divides ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Key Contested Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice

    A Biopsychosocial Perspective

    de Anthony Walsh ...
    Series series Crime Science Series
    Key Contested Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice addresses the key issues within criminology and criminal justice that are strongly contested among scholars in the field.Covering 18 different themes, the book identifies the ways in which different issues are contested and demonstrates how biopsychosocial concepts and methods can inform most of them. It is divided into four broad sections. ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Sexuality and Crime

    A Neo-Darwinian Perspective

    de Anthony Walsh ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Criminology
    Written by one of the leading figures in biosocial criminology and evolutionary psychology, this work explores the tight relationship between criminality and indiscriminate sexuality within the framework of life history theory. The underlying thesis is that traits associated with a strong libido, indiscriminately expressed, are intertwined with traits associated with criminal behavior; that is, ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Biology and Criminology

    The Biosocial Synthesis

    de Anthony Walsh ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Criminology
    Numerous criminologists have noted their dissatisfaction with the state of criminology. The need for a new paradigm for the 21st century is clear. However, many distrust biology as a factor in studies of criminal behavior, whether because of limited exposure or because the orientation of criminology in general has a propensity to see it as racist, classist, or at least illiberal. This innovative ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to Biosocial Theories of Crime

    de Anthony Walsh ...
    In response to exciting developments in genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, a number of criminologists have embraced the position that criminal behaviour is the product of biological, psychological, and sociological factors operating together in complex ways. They have come to realize that if they are to capture the dynamic nature of criminal behaviour then they must span multiple ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory

    A Metatheory for Biosocial Criminology

    de Anthony Walsh ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Criminology
    Some of the brightest minds in criminology who were nurtured on the strictly environmentalist paradigm of the 20th century have declared that biosocial criminology is the paradigm for the 21st century. This book attempts to unite this ever-growing field with the premier neurobiological theory of personality, otherwise known as reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST). Anthony Walsh places the highly ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Biosociology

    Bridging the Biology-Sociology Divide

    de Anthony Walsh ...
    Anthony Walsh bridges the divide separating sociology from biology—a divide created in the late nineteenth century when sociology emerged from the fields of social theory and philosophy. Walsh focuses on the viewpoint held by former American Sociological Association president Douglas Massey: sociologists have allowed the fact that we are social beings to obscure the biological foundations upon ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Love

    The Biology Behind the Heart

    de Anthony Walsh ...
    Love is a little word with a universe of meanings and has engaged people's interest throughout human history. The need to give and receive love lies deep within human nature. Philosophers, poets, theologians, sociologists, and scientists have all attempted to explain its exact origin, but is it an evolutionary adaptation, or a social construct?Walsh discusses that the nature of and need for love ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Criminological Theory

    Assessing Philosophical Assumptions

    de Anthony Walsh ...
    Criminologists can benefit from questioning the underlying assumptions upon which they rest their work. Philosophy has the ability to clarify our thoughts, inform us of why we think about things the way we do, solve contradictions in our thinking we never knew existed, and even dissolve some dichotomies we thought were cast in stone. One of those dichotomies is free will vs. determinism. ... Leer más

    $104.99 USD

  • Social Class and Crime

    A Biosocial Approach

    de Anthony Walsh ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Criminology
    Social class has been at the forefront of sociological theories of crime from their inception. It is explicitly central to some theories such as anomie/strain and conflict, and nips aggressively at the periphery of others such as social control theory. Yet none of these theories engage in a systematic exploration of what social class is, how individuals come to be placed in one rung of the class ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD