The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Victim and Offender Perspectives

The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Victim and Offenders Perspectives is not just another formulaic book on forensic psychology. Rather, it opens up new areas of enquiry to busy practitioners and academics alike, exploring topics using a practical approach to social deviance that is underpinned by frontier research findings, policy, and international trends.

From the relationship between psychopathology and crime, and the characteristics of catathymia, compulsive homicide, sadistic violence, and homicide victimology, to adult sexual grooming, domestic violence, and honor killings, experts in the field provide insight into the areas of homicide, violent crime, and sexual predation. In all, more than 20 internationally recognized experts in their fields explore these and other topic, also including discussing youth offending, love scams, the psychology of hate, public threat assessment, querulence, stalking, arson, and cults.

This edited work is an essential reference for academics and practitioners working in any capacity that intersects with offenders and victims of crime, public policy, and roles involving the assessment, mitigation, and investigation of criminal and antisocial behavior. It is particularly ideal for those working in criminology, psychology, law and law enforcement, public policy, and for social science students seeking to explore the nature and character of criminal social deviance.

Includes twenty chapters across a diverse range of criminal and antisocial subject areasAuthored by an international panel of experts in their respective fields that provide a multi-cultural perspective on the issues of crime and antisocial behaviorExplores topics from both victim and offender perspectivesIncludes chapters covering research, practice, policy, mitigation, and preventionProvides an easy to read and consistent framework, making the text user-friendly as a ready-reference desktop guide

Chapter 1. Psychopathology as a Mediator of Antisocial and Criminal Behavior Chapter 2. Catathymia and Compulsive Homicide: A Psychological Perspective Chapter 3. Victimology and Predicting Victims of Personal Violence Chapter 4. Threat and Violence Intervention: Influenced by Victim and Offender Perspectives Chapter 5. Profiling in Violent Crimes: The Perpetrator and the Victim in Cases of Filicide Chapter 6. Risk Assessment in Youth Justice: A Child-Centered Approach to Managing Interventions Chapter 7. Reciprocity and Exchange: Perspectives of Male Victims of Family Violence Chapter 8. Stalking Chapter 9. Stalking Public Figures: The Fixated Loner Chapter 10. Circumscribing Cyberbullying: Toward a Mutual Definition and Characterizations of Aggression, Assault, and Recklessness via Telecommunications Technology Chapter 11. Domestic Violence: Psychological Issues Related to the Victim and Offender Chapter 12. Honor Killings and Domestic Violence: The Same or Different? Chapter 13. Homicide in Australia Chapter 14. Victims of Child Sexual Abuse: The Psychology of Victims Chapter 15. Child Sexual Offenders: The Psychology of Offending Chapter 16. The Psychology of Adult Sexual Grooming: Sinnamon's Seven-Stage Model of Adult Sexual Grooming Chapter 17. Searching for the Spectrum of the Querulous Chapter 18. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding Internet Love Scams: Implications for Law Enforcement Chapter 19. Firesetters: A Review of Theory, Facts, and Treatment Chapter 20. Cults