Criminal Psychology

A concise and accessible introduction to criminal psychology, written by one of the world's leading authorities, which familiarizes students with the key concepts and important contemporary debates in the field. It considers the perspectives of all the main protagonists: victim, perpetrator, and examining psychologist.

Autorentext

David Canter is Emeritus Professor at The University of Liverpool and Director of the International Research Centre for Investigative Psychology at The University of Huddersfield.

Zusammenfassung
Migrants have become an important social and political constituency throughout the world. In addition to sending remittances to their home countries, many migrants maintain political ties with their nations of origin through the expansion of dual citizenship and voting rights. Some even return home to participate in local and national-level politics. But to what extent do migrants influence their home communities and governments? Mexican migrants fought for and won the right to dual nationality in 1997 and the right to vote from abroad in presidential elections in 2005. As the country with the world's second largest emigrant population, many expected that the enfranchisement of the Mexican diaspora would powerfully shape the direction of Mexican politics. Scholars, policy makers, and migrant politicians have argued that migrants who exercise these rights will, through contact with the U.S. political system and culture, develop more democratic attitudes and behaviors, and in turn, help to democratize their home states. However, only a tiny share of the Mexican diaspora community exercised their voting rights in the 2006 and 2012 elections. And, as this book shows, though migrants do engage socially and politically in their communities of origin and at times powerfully impact political dynamics there, the outcomes don't uniformly enhance local democracy. For example, while this research finds that migrants from non-elite backgrounds were able to parlay their migrant experience into a path to power in their home states, non-migrant politicians have been more successful at maintaining stability after election, due to their ties to the dominant governing parties. Even when migrant political actors intend to open up the political systems of their home towns, bring about needed reforms, or improve governance, the impact of their engagement at the aggregate level of municipal politics depends on a range of intervening factors, most importantly the nature of their interactions with non-migrant political actors in their home states and municipalities. Here, Michael S. Danielson develops a theory of and methodological model for studying migrant impact on the communities and countries they leave behind, examining a largely underexplored area of research in the migration literature.

Inhalt

About the Author. Foreword to Second Edition. Preface to the Series Second Edition. 1. Psychology and the Criminal Process. Section 1: THE BASIS OF CRIMINALITY 2. Biological Explanations of Crime 3. Psychological Explanations of Crime 4. Social Explanations of Crime. Section 2: VARIETIES OF CRIME 5. Acquisitive Crime 6. Domestic Violence 7. Sexual Offences 8. Homicide and Serial Killing 9. Gangs, Organised Crime and Terrorism. Section 3: INTERACTING WITH CRIMINALS 10. Testimony and Interviewing 11. Deception and Fraud 12. Psychology and Investigations. Section 4: AREAS OF APPLICATION 13. Psychology and the Police 14. Psychology in Court 15. Psychology in Prison 16. Concerning Victims 17. The Future of Psychology and Crime. Notes on Publications and Accessing them. References. Index