Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of psychological approaches with violent offenders : contemporary strategies and issues / edited by Vincent B. Van Hasselt and Michel Hersen.

Publication

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, ©1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Van Hasselt, Vincent B.
• Hersen, Michel.

Description

xii, 528 pages; 26 cm.

Summary

Provides an examination of salient strategies and issues in research and treatment of a wide variety of violent offenders, discusses relevant clinical implications of working with the disparate groups that are covered and covers a range of special topics and factors that are common to populations of violent individuals.

Series Statement

The Plenum series in crime and justice

Uniform Title

Plenum series in crime and justice

Alternative Title

Psychological approaches with violent offenders

Subjects

• Psychologische aspecten
• Geweldsdelicten
• Geweld
• Gewaltkriminalität
• Gerichtliche Psychologie
• Violent offenders > Psychology
• Violence > Psychological aspects
• Psychology, Pathological
• Violent crimes > Psychological aspects
• Psychopathology
• Crime > psychology
• Violence > psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Overview / Alisa Bricklin, Michel Hersen, and Vincent B. Van Hasselt -- Sociological theories of violence / Suzanne K. Steinmetz -- Behavioral perspectives on violent behavior / Michael T. Nietzel, Dawn M. Hasemann, and Donald R. Lynam -- Psychodynamic theories / Howard D. Lerner -- The role of biological factors / Paul F. Brain -- Firesetting in children and youth / David J. Kolko -- Adolescent sex offenders / John A. Hunter, Jr. -- Child and adolescent homicide / Dewey G. Cornell -- Serial murder and sexual homicide / Wade C. Myers, Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, and John E. Douglas -- Making sense of mass murder / Jack Levin and James Alan Fox -- Women who kill / Janet I. Warren and Jeff Kovnick -- Paraphilias / Nathaniel McConaghy -- Rape / William L. Marshall, Yolanda M. Fernandez, and Franca Cortoni -- Child sexual molestation / Robert A. Prentky -- Adolescent victims and intergenerational issues in sexual abuse / Debra B. Hecht and David J. Hansen -- Child physical abuse and neglect / Jody E. Warner-Rogers, David J. Hansen, and Debra B. Hecht -- Relationship aggression between partners / Alan Rosenbaum and Paul J. Gearan -- Elder abuse / Rosalie S. Wolf -- Serial arson and fire-related crime factors / Allen D. Sapp, Timothy G. Huff, Gordon P. Gary, and David J. Icove -- A neurological perspective / Frank A. Elliott -- Psychiatric assessment of the violent offender / Otto Kausch and Phillip J. Resnick -- The neuropsychology of aggression / Katrina R. Rayls and Wiley Mittenberg -- Prediction of dangerousness and release decision making / Norman G. Poythress, Jr. -- Alcohol, drugs, and interpersonal violence / Linda J. Roberts, Caton F. Roberts, and Kenneth E. Leonard.

ISBN

• 0306458454
• 9780306458453

LCCN

98040748

OCLC

• ocm39887037
• 39887037
• SCSB-870215

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library