Product Description: This book provides an overview and analysis of the many facets of the drug-crime relationship. The opening chapters discuss drugs and crime separately for the purpose of setting the stage for later discussions on drug-crime relationships...read more

Product Description: This engaging book presents a contextual psychological interpretation of crime. It covers essential topics including psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder, and criminal lifestyle. The author's compelling analysis explains criminal behavior, by showing how the criminal lifestyle is capable of integrating two seemingly incompatible crime paradigms: the career criminal paradigm and the criminal career paradigm...read more

Product Description: This book describes how the belief systems of 13 personality theorists (i.e., Freud, Jung, Adler, Erikson, Horney, Allport, Murray, Eysenck, Maslow, Rogers, Skinner, Bandura, Kelly) have shaped major theories of personality (i.e., psychoanalysis, analytical psychology, individual psychology, ego psychology, cultural psychoanalysis, trait theory, personology, factor theory, humanistic psychology, phenomenological psychology, radical behaviorism, social cognitive theory, personal construct theory) by way of the theorist's subjective, historical, cultural, and intellectual context...read more

Product Description: Walters integrates information from traditional criminological models and findings from developmental psychology to form a system of five belief systems (self-view, world-view, past-view, present-view, and future-view) designed to explain crime initiation and maintenance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Walters sets forth an interactive model of lifestyle development, which is divided into three phases. Initiation, the first phase of lifestyle development, is the point at which lifestyle-supporting belief systems evolve from interactions taking place between incentive (existential fear), opportunity (risk factors and learning experiences), and choice (decision-making)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Rejecting behavior as the proper topic of study in psychology, Walters defines the subject matter for psychology as the human organism's interaction with the internal and external environments. In offering an overarching theoretical model based on 12 different theoretical traditions, Walters runs counter to the currently popular practice in psychology of constructing conceptual mini-models that restrict themselves to highly circumscribed areas of psychological inquiry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Admitting to an addiction has long been touted as the first step to recovery. But for those who are actually struggling with compulsive behavior, admitting to an addiction is admitting in part to defeat and failure, and succumbing to a permanent label from which they are never truly freed -- "once an addict, always an addict...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book offers a practical model of intervention for use by clinicians working with substance abusing criminal offenders. It outlines a program of change divided into three phases: intervention, instruction in basic social, coping and thinking skills, and resocialization. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book offers a practical model of intervention for use by clinicians working with substance abusing criminal offenders. It outlines a program of change divided into three phases: intervention, instruction in basic social, coping and thinking skills, and resocialization. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: This volume explores the correlation between drug abuse and crime. In examining the thinking and behavioural patterns common to both, it proposes a new explanatory model. Seeing involvement in drug abuse and crime as overlapping lifestyles, the author considers four primary factors: conditions, choices, cognitions and change...read more

Product Description: What kind of choices does a hardened criminal make? What belief systems are these choices based on? The Criminal Lifestyle approaches these questions by examining how various biological, sociological and psychological factors interact to bring about criminal behaviour...read more

Product Description: Criminal science can best be conceptualized as the holistic and interdisciplinary study of crime and criminals. In this 2-volume set, all major features of criminal development are taken into account, and all sources of data (including medical, legal, sociological, ecological, and psychological) are considered...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Criminal science can best be conceptualized as the holistic and interdisciplinary study of crime and criminals. All major features of criminal development are taken into account, and all sources of data (including medical, legal, sociological, ecological, and psychological) are considered...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Criminal science can best be conceptualized as the holistic and interdisciplinary study of crime and criminals. All major features of criminal development are taken into account, and all sources of data (including medical, legal, sociological, ecological, and psychological) are considered...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)