Modelling the Criminal Lifestyle
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Modelling the Criminal Lifestyle

Theorizing at the Edge of Chaos

Glenn D. Walters

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Modelling the Criminal Lifestyle

Theorizing at the Edge of Chaos

Glenn D. Walters

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About This Book

This book offers Walters's latest evolution of criminal lifestyle theory. It introduces the concept of criminal thought content to illustrate how the potential interplay between what offenders think and their thought processes can greatly aid our understanding of both crime and criminals. In this new study on criminal behaviour, Walters calls for criminological theory to be placed within a broader scientific context, and provides us with several key models which embrace constructs from numerous important theories including: the general theory of crime, social cognitive and social learning theories, general strain theory, psychopathic personality theories of crime, and labelling theory.
Another unique aspect of this work is that it places lifestyle theory within a larger scientific framework, namely, nonlinear dynamical systems theory or chaos. Seven principles from chaos theory are used to explain relationships and processes central to lifestyle theory and Walters uses this to draw conclusions on what affects criminal decision-making and desistance from crime. Highly original and innovative in scope, this book will be useful to practitioners and scholars of criminal justice alike, with chapters focussed on decision-making, assessment, and intervention.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
ISBN
9783319577715
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Criminology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. List of Tables
  5. 1 Tracing the Roots of Criminal Lifestyle Theory
  6. 2 Definitions and Major Assumptions
  7. 3 The Fractal Nature of Lifestyles
  8. 4 The Control Model of Criminal Lifestyle Development
  9. 5 The Moral Model of Criminal Lifestyle Development
  10. 6 Choice in a Criminal Lifestyle
  11. 7 Assessing the Criminal Lifestyle
  12. 8 Changing the Criminal Lifestyle
  13. 9 Criminal Justice Policy and the Criminal Lifestyle
  14. 10 Future Issues, Questions, and Concerns
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
Citation styles for Modelling the Criminal Lifestyle

APA 6 Citation

Walters, G. (2017). Modelling the Criminal Lifestyle ([edition unavailable]). Springer International Publishing. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3497816/modelling-the-criminal-lifestyle-theorizing-at-the-edge-of-chaos-pdf (Original work published 2017)

Chicago Citation

Walters, Glenn. (2017) 2017. Modelling the Criminal Lifestyle. [Edition unavailable]. Springer International Publishing. https://www.perlego.com/book/3497816/modelling-the-criminal-lifestyle-theorizing-at-the-edge-of-chaos-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Walters, G. (2017) Modelling the Criminal Lifestyle. [edition unavailable]. Springer International Publishing. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3497816/modelling-the-criminal-lifestyle-theorizing-at-the-edge-of-chaos-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Walters, Glenn. Modelling the Criminal Lifestyle. [edition unavailable]. Springer International Publishing, 2017. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.