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Violent Offenders: Theory, Research, Public Policy, and Practice

Author(s): Matt DeLisi, PhD, Associate Professor, Iowa State University
Peter J. Conis, PhD, Professor Sociology and Criminal Justice, Des Moines Area Community College
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763754792
  • Paperback    318 pages      © 2008
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Violent Offenders: Theory, Research, Public Policy, and Practice provides the latest information to help students understand the many different types of violent offenders we hear about in the media daily, from homicide and sex offenders to financial predators and street criminals to serial killers and career criminals. The authors have compiled original scholarship from an international collection of applied and academic criminologists to provide students with a realistic and cutting-edge view of why people commit violent crimes and how our criminal justice system, as a whole, responds to these offenders and these violent acts.

The text is divided into three sections. Part one covers the theoretical and disciplinary foundations of the study of violent behavior, spanning the disciplines of sociology, psychology, biology, and neuroscience. Part two discusses empirical and topical linkages to criminological subjects, including homicide offenders and victims, sex offenders, and gang members. Part three explores public policy and practical applications describing the various ways that criminal justice systems respond to violent offenders from the insightful perspectives of people who work among violent offenders on a daily basis.

The new updated and revised Second Edition of DeLisi's Violent Offenders: Theory, Research, Policy, and Practice will be available 7/11/2011!

 

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Contributions from criminal justice practitioners show how public policies and practice respond to violent offenders and their actions.

Hands-on research and practitioner expertise illustrate today’s study of criminal predation.

Clear explanations of how criminological theory relates to the formation of a criminal offender help students understand the reasons behind a person’s violent actions.

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Chapter 1: The Importance of Violent Offenders to Criminology
Chapter 2: Where I’m From: Criminal Predators and Their Environments
Chapter 3: The Behavioral Genetics of Predatory Criminal Behavior
Chapter 4: The Socialization of Violent Criminal Offenders: Notes from the Theory of Differential Oppression
Chapter 5: Biosocial Dynamics: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Violence and Predation
Chapter 6: Early Risk Factors for Homicide Offenders and Victims
Chapter 7: Generality of Deviance and Predation: Crime-Switching and Specialization Patterns in Persistent Sexual Offenders
Chapter 8: Comparing Women and Men Who Kill
Chapter 9: Gang Involvement and Predatory Crime
Chapter 10: Still Psychopathic After All These Years
Chapter 11: The Heterogeneity of Predatory Behaviors in Sexual Homicide
Chapter 12: Criminal Predatory Behavior in the Federal Bureau of Prisons
Chapter 13: Civil Commitment Laws for Sexual Predators
Chapter 14: Prosecuting Criminal Predators
Chapter 15: Institutional Misconduct Among Capital Murderers
Chapter 16: Sex Offenders on the Internet: Cyber-Struggles for the Protection of Children
Chapter 17: Sex Offender Registries and Criminal Predators
Chapter 18: Domestic Abuse Program-Generated Risks of Battered Women


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Matt DeLisi, PhD-Associate Professor, Iowa State University

Matt DeLisi (Ph.D.) is Professor and Coordinator of Criminal Justice Studies and Faculty Affiliate of the Center for the Study of Violence at Iowa State University. Professor DeLisi's primary research interests include criminal careers/career criminals, self-control theory, corrections, psychopathy, and the molecular/behavioral genetics of antisocial behavior. Professor DeLisi is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and Association for Psychological Science. The Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Criminal Justice, Dr. DeLisi has published nearly 200 scholarly works.

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Peter J. Conis, PhD-Professor Sociology and Criminal Justice, Des Moines Area Community College

Peter Conis (Ph.D.) is a retired law enforcement officer with twenty-seven years experience. During his law enforcement career he served as a patrol officer and supervisor, a criminal investigator for the county prosecutor’s office, and as the program director for the S.T.O.P Violence Against Women project at the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy. During his time at the law enforcement academy, Dr. Conis instructed officers, victim advocates, and medical personnel on investigative procedures and legal aspects of crimes involving domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. He is currently a professor for Des Moines Area Community College in both sociology and criminal justice.

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  • Violent Offenders
  • Criminal Predators
  • Special Topics in Criminology
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