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T1 Crime prevention and treatment policies: a biopsychosocial approach
T2 Routledge frontiers of criminal justice
A1 Walsh, Anthony 1941-
LA English
PP New York London
PB Routledge
YR 2026
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1933096845
AB This book shows how to use biopsychosocial assessment for crime prevention and to achieve more individualized treatment for those who commit crimes. Author Anthony Walsh, a prominent figure in biosocial criminology for more than four decades, examines the treat-ment policy recommendations of major criminological theories and how they might be im-proved by integrating relevant biopsychosocial insights. Walsh contends that sound crime prevention and treatment policies must be based on empirical evidence derived from theories about the causes of crime if they are to reduce incarceration rates. The biopsychosocial perspective improves on traditional theories by examining all putative causes of crime from the micro to the macro-from neurons to neighborhoods-and should thus improve prevention and treatment efforts. The understanding of the genetic, neurobiological, and physiological components of antisocial behavior has improved exponentially over the past three decades. The relevant biological measures (e.g., genotyping, hormone assays, autonomic system arousal levels, resting heart rates) are routinely examined in university labs for research purposes. This book shows how measures of these components can be fruitfully integrated into the Risk-Needs-Responsivity model of offender treatment. Offering a fresh perspective, this book is essential for both scholars and practitioners wishing to explore treatment modalities that consider the biological aspects of criminality
CN HV6080
SN 978-1-041-07802-9
SN 978-1-041-07801-2
K1 Crime Prevention
K1 Criminal Psychology
K1 Criminal behavior, Prediction of : United States
K1 Criminal Behavior : Genetic aspects
K1 Psychobiology : Social aspects : United States
K1 Crime Prevention : United States
K1 Biopsychologie, Physiologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
K1 Causes & prevention of crime
K1 Criminal justice law
K1 Criminal or forensic psychology
K1 Criminology: legal aspects
K1 Kriminalpsychologie, forensische Psychologie
K1 Kriminologie: Rechtliche Aspekte
K1 LAW / Criminal Law / General
K1 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration
K1 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
K1 PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology
K1 PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology
K1 PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General
K1 PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
K1 Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology
K1 Public Administration
K1 Social Science / Criminology
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
K1 Social law
K1 Social, group or collective psychology
K1 Kriminologie : Kriminalpsychologie : Verbrechen : Prävention : Psychobiologie