A Systems-Based Approach to Criminal Thinking and Behavior

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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 r...

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Main Author: Scollione, James (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
Year: 2024, Volume: 68, Issue: 15, Pages: 1615-1628
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Worldview
systems-based approach
Rehabilitation
Reductionism
Prevention
integrated criminology
general systems theory
Deviance
Delinquency
Criminality
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1552-6933
DOI:10.1177/0306624X241270565