Psychopathy and Criminal Behavior (eBook, ePUB)

Current Trends and Challenges
Redaktion: Marques, Paulo Barbosa; Alho, Laura; Paulino, Mauro

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Psychopathy and Criminal Behavior: Current Trends and Challenges fills a gap in the market by covering new topics and angles not addressed in other literature. The book's authors approach the interaction of psychopathy with different types of crime, reflecting on comorbidity with other disorders, symptoms and emotional function. In addition to examining questions of prevention and treatment, they present new developments with solid theory and scientific evidence, also addressing forensic realities. This is a must-have guide for practitioners, students or anyone interested in psychopathy, criminal behavior and the various avenues of treatment.

• Provides a direct and concise approach, reflecting on the construct of psychopathy and its implications in forensic settings
• Includes sections on models of development in psychopathy and the neuropsychological fundamentals of the role of psychopathy in violent behavior
• Written for researchers, practitioners and students

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780128114209
• Artikelnr.: 62859953

Autorenporträt

Paulo Barbosa Marques is a chartered clinical and forensic psychologist and a law enforcement officer. He began his law enforcement career serving as a frontline police officer in the Polícia de Segurança Pública (PSP) and later as a criminal investigator at the Criminal Investigation Department - Organized Crime Brigade. Paulo is now an inspector at the Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras (SEF), the Portuguese Immigration and Borders Service. He holds a Master's in Law and Security from the Faculty of Law - NOVA University of Lisbon, a postgraduate diploma in Internal Security, and a Licentiate degree in Psychology. Over the past years, his research has focused on the police officers, prosecutors and judges perceptions of investigative interviewing operational practices and training needs in Portugal. Paulo regularly presents at conferences to both academics and practitioners.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Practical considerations for the clinical and forensic use of psychopathy 2. The emergence and development of psychopathy 3. Neural correlates of psychopathy: A comprehensive review 4. Emotional functioning in psychopathy. A critical review and integration with general emotion theories 5. The development of psychopathy through the lifespan and its relation to offending 6. Assessment of psychopathy and antisocial behavior 7. The concept of psychopathy and risk assessment: Historical developments, contemporary considerations and future directions 8. Communicating with psychopaths in law enforcement settings 9. Negotiating with the psychopathic hostage taker 10. Interviewing psychopaths: Toward a science of investigative interviewing of psychopathic suspects 11. Psychopathy evidence in legal proceedings 12. Psychopathy, offending style and crime scene behavior 13. Psychopathy and drug-related crime and violence 14. Are gang members psychopaths? 15. Psychopathy and sexual offending over the life course: An exploratory longitudinal investigation 16. Psychopathy is integral to understanding homicide and violence 17. Psychopathy in human trafficking offenders: Current trends and challenges 18. Psychopathy and terrorist involvement 19. Psychopathy and corporate crime 20. Psychopathy: Cybercrime and cyber abuse 21. Psychopathy and animal cruelty offenders 22. Treatment of psychopathic offenders: A Review of research, past, and current practice

Rezensionen

"...The editors have impressive scholarly and applied experiences in criminology, psychology, and the forensic sciences, and their diverse professional experiences translate into a highly accessible and eminently interesting volume. The book is valuable for criminologists, consultants, attorneys, prosecutors, true crime aficionados, and criminal justice students alike, and is worthy of a read. Psychopathy
and criminal behavior: Current trends and challenges is the most useful, insightful, and cogent volume on psychopathy in my library" --Journal of Forensic Sciences