Straight Talk About Criminals

Is there a genetic predisposition to crime? Should mental illness be taken into account? Do family and social environments have a role? Do people become abusers because they have been abused? How can people who do terrible things consider themselves good people? What should someone involved in a relationship with a criminal know? Stanton Samenow, co-author of the widely respected three-volume study of The Criminal Personality, has collected the questions posed by audiences during his speaking engagements of the past twenty-eight years about causes, characteristics, and treatments of antisocial behavior. Now he draws on his research and clinical experience with hundreds of men, women, and children to offer no-frills answers that embody his informed perspectives on some of the toughest policy issues facing individuals, institutions, and governments today. A Jason Aronson Book

ISBN 1568218753   Pages 325 ISBN13 9781568218755 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers   Weight (grammes) 653 Imprint Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers   Published in Northvale NJ Format Hardback   Height (mm) 238 Publication date 01 May 1997   Width (mm) 162 Library of Congress 97040385   Spine width (mm) 30 DEWEY 364.3   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC21

		Preface
		Acknowledgments
		The Criminal Personality: An Introduction		1
1		Criminal Behavior Is a Result Not of Environment but of an Individual's Choices		7
2		Environmental Factors Do Not Cause Crime		19
3		Bad Parenting Does Not Cause Crime		27
4		People Do Not Become Abusers and Criminals Because They Were Abused		39
5		Biological/Genetic Contributions to Criminality Need Not Preordain Incarceration		49
6		The Alleged Increase in Crime: It Is Not Human Nature but Laws, Law Enforcement, and Deterrents that Change		55
7		Individuals with a Criminal Mind View Life Differently Than Do Responsible People		63
8		The Criminal Mind Exists Independent of Particular Laws, Culture, or Customs		87
9		The Criminal's After-the-Fact Excuses Rarely Reflect His True Motives		99
10		Criminals, Not Drugs, Cause Crime		117
11		Criminals Are Neither Mentally Ill Nor Victims of Addictions		127
12		Schools and Crime: Schools Must Combat Crime, Not Coddle Offenders		145
13		Criminals Can Change		153
14		Helping a Criminal Change		169
15		Agents of Change		195
16		Potential Criminal Patterns Can Be Identified Early and Preventive Steps Taken		209
17		Directions for Social Policy		221
18		Offbeat Questions		243
19		Personal Questions		249
		A Final Note		263
App		An Overview of The Criminal Personality		267
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Dr. Samenow knows more about the criminal personality than anyone I know. The 'straight talk about criminals' he gives us, after spending more than twenty-seven years interviewing, evaluating, and treating men, women, and children convicted of a variety of crimes, is a must-read for anyone working with convicted felons as well as for the lay person with questions about the criminal personality and how it got to be that way. -- John Douglas, Ed.D., former chief, FBI Investigative Support Unit Stanton Samenow drives home with unprecedented power the revolutionary discovery of his clinical experience--namely, that to treat the antisocial individual we must understand the self-serving distortions of the criminal mind. Only recently has cognitive-behavioral research caught up with and confirmed Samenow's discovery, which is lucidly articulated and expanded through a straightforward question-and-answer format. Straight Talk About Criminals should be required reading for anyone who would work with chronic offenders. -- John C. Gibbs, Ph.D., Ohio State University

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