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  • EVIDENCE-BASED OFFENDER PROFILING
    BRYANNA FOX / DAVID FARRINGTON / ANDREAS KAPARDIS / OLIVIA HAMBLY
    Offender profiling is an investigative tool used to narrow down the range of potential suspects for a crime by predicting the personality, behavioral, and demographic characteristics that an offender is likely to possess, based upon information collected at the crime scene. While offender profiling has been popularized by TV shows and movies such as Criminal Minds, Silence of t...

    $640.00

  • INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENTAL AND LIFE-COURSE THEORIES OF OFFENDING
    DAVID P. FARRINGTON
    Developmental and life-course criminology aims to provide information about how offending and antisocial behavior develops, about risk and protective factors at different ages, and about the effects of life events on the course of development. This volume advances knowledge about these theories of offender behavior, many of which have been formulated only in the last twenty yea...

    $1,360.00

  • INTEGRATED EGO PSYCHOLOGY
    DAVID P. FARRINGTON
    Ego psychology is the aspect of psychoanalytic theory concerned with how people adapt to the demands and possibilities of their worlds in accordance with their inner requirements. All substantial theories of personality refer to adaptation, but there are several features special to ego psychology. It offers by far the most elaborate picture of the adaptive apparatus and of the ...

    $1,380.00

  • CRIMINAL RECIDIVISM
    GEORGIA ZARA / DAVID FARRINGTON
    Criminal Recidivism intends to fill a gap in the criminological psychology literature by examining the processes underlying persistent criminal careers. This book aims to investigate criminal recidivism, and why, how and for how long an individual continues to commit crimes, whilst also reviewing knowledge about risk assessment and the role of psychopathy (including neurocrimin...

    $1,480.00

  • YOUNG ADULT OFFENDERS
    LÖSEL, FRIEDRICH / BOTTOMS, ANTHONY / FARRINGTON, DAVID P.
    This latest volume in the Cambridge Criminal Justice Series focuses upon young adults and their treatment in the criminal justice system. The subject is very topical because there is increasing evidence that a rigid distinction between ‘youth’ and ‘adulthood’ is not appropriate in modern societies. For example, important developmental tasks such as finishing one’s education, fi...

    $1,160.00

  • RELUCTANT PARTNERS? NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, THE STATE AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
    BEBBINGTON, ANTHONY / FARRINGTON, JOHN / LEWIS, DAVID J. / WELLARD, KATE
    Reluctant Partners? combines comprehensive empirical insights into NGOs' work in agriculture with wider considerations of their relations with the State and their contribution to democratic pluralism. This overview volume for the Non-Governmental Organizations series contextualizes and synthesizes the case study material in the three regional volumes on Africa, Asia and Latin A...

    $780.00

  • EVIDENCE-BASED CRIME PREVENTION
    FARRINGTON, DAVID P. / MACKENZIE, DORIS LAYTON / SHERMAN, LAWRENCE W. / WELSH, BRANDON C.
    Crime prevention policy and practice is, on the whole, far from objective. Instead of being based on scientific evidence, the crime policy agenda is seemingly driven by political ideology, anecdotal evidence and programme trends. Evidence-Based Crime Prevention seeks to change this by comprehensively and rigorously assessing the existing scientific knowledge on the effectivenes...

    $2,100.00

  • ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
    ROLF LOEBER / DAVID P. FARRINGTON / MAGDA STOUTHAMER-LOEBER / WELMOET B. VAN KAMMEN
    Epidemiological surveys have provided key information about the prevalence and degree of seriousness at different ages of a wide array of problem behaviors such as delinquency, substance use, early sexual involvement, and mental health disorders. Knowledge of the extent of these problems and changes in their course over time is important. In its absence, interventions and healt...

    $1,600.00