Violent offenders : theory, research, public policy, and practice / Matt DeLisi, Peter J. Conis.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	DeLisi, Matt
Other Authors:	Conis, Peter John
Language:	English
Published:	Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, [2008], ©2008.
Subjects:	Violent offenders. Violent crimes > Research. Criminal psychology. Criminology.
Online Access:	Connect to: Table of contents only - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:	xi, 318 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

The importance of violent offenders to criminology
Where I'm from : criminal predators and their environments
The behavioral genetics of predatory criminal behavior
The socialization of violent criminal offenders : notes from the theory of differential oppression
Biosocial dynamics : a transdisciplinary approach to violence and predation
Early risk factors for young homicide offenders and victims
Generality of deviance and predation : crime-switching and specialization patterns in persistent sexual offenders
Comparing women and men who kill
Gang involvement and predatory crime
Still psychopathic after all these years
The heterogeneity of predatory behaviors in sexual homicide
Criminal predatory behavior in the federal bureau of prisons
Civil commitment laws for sexual predators
Prosecuting criminal predators
Institutional misconduct among capital murderers
Sex offenders on the Internet : cyber-struggles for the protection of children
Sex offender registries and criminal predators
Domestic abuse program-generated risks of battered women.