Tracing the roots of criminal lifestyle theory -- Definitions and major assumptions -- The fractal nature of lifestyles -- The control model of criminal lifestyle development -- The moral model of criminal lifestyle development -- Choice in a criminal lifestyle -- Assessing the criminal lifestyle -- Changing the criminal lifestyle -- Criminal justice policy and the criminal lifestyle -- Future issues, questions, and concerns.
Summary:
"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."--Back cover.
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