RT Article
T1 A Systems-Based Approach to Criminal Thinking and Behavior
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 68
IS 15
SP 1615
OP 1628
A1 Scollione, James
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1905172877
AB Nearly all theoretical approaches and therapies to criminal thinking and behavior have been reductionist, meaning that they focus on a part or a subsystem of a system or a supra-system. While these reductionist theories and therapies have provided, and continue to provide, valuable information and rehabilitation, they offer a limited view of criminality and rehabilitation as a consequence of reductionism. Using general systems theory (GST), this article presents an integrated and interdisciplinary theoretical approach to criminal thinking and behavior. This article posits that criminality can be better understood, prevented, and treated using GST.
K1 Worldview
K1 systems-based approach
K1 Rehabilitation
K1 Reductionism
K1 Prevention
K1 integrated criminology
K1 general systems theory
K1 Deviance
K1 Delinquency
K1 Criminality
DO 10.1177/0306624X241270565