Children whose parents exhibit criminal behavior (CB) appear to have an increased risk of
displaying CB themselves. We conducted a systematic review and pooled results from 23 …

Although antisocial personality disorder (APD) is one of the most researched personality
disorders, it is still surprisingly resistant to treatment. This lack of clinical progress may be …

The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Sixth Edition, provides a psychological and evidence-
informed perspective of criminal behavior that sets it apart from many criminological and …

What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists
insisted that criminality was innate, a trait inherent in the offender's brain matter. While they …

What impact does formal punishment have on antisocial conduct—does it deter or promote
it? The findings from a long line of research on the labeling tradition indicate formal …

Purpose It is well-established that victims and offenders are often the same people, a
phenomenon known as the victim-offender overlap, but the developmental nature of this …

Recent research in psychiatric genetics has led to a move away from simple diathesis-stress
models to more complex models of psychopathology incorporating a focus on gene …

Objectives I examine housing instability among individuals with a felony conviction but no
incarceration history relative to formerly incarcerated individuals as a means of separating …

The scientific study of human behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective began in the
20th century with disciplines such as human ethology and behavioral ecology as well as …

Psychological Criminology addresses the question: what is it about individuals and their
experiences that cause them to commit crime and/or to become criminal? This book …