Women Offenders ’ Criminal Narrative Experience
Journal of Criminal Psychology, Ahead of Print. Purpose Although there is a vast array of theories on crime, one area that is largely under-represented is that of the actual experience of the offender engaged in criminal acts. The purpose of this paper is to examine the individual and phenomenological experiences of crime amongst women offenders. Design/methodology/approach The sample consisted of 128 women who had committed a criminal offence, with an average age of 36.40 years (SD=11.12). Participants were recruited to take part in the study by answering a questionnaire exploring the emotions and narrative roles they e...
Source: Journal of Criminal Psychology - March 10, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Executive functioning as a predictive measure of offending behaviour
Journal of Criminal Psychology, Ahead of Print. Purpose Prosociality is considered important in the study of offenders and associated cognitive skills: theory of mind, empathic understanding and moral reasoning, are said to enable self-control and reduce the risk of offending behaviours. Previous research has made associations between these skills and executive functioning; however, research into a link between them, in an offending population, is limited. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach To further understand the practicalities of this, the present study considered the predictive abiliti...
Source: Journal of Criminal Psychology - January 4, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
“The beat of my heart”: the relationship between resting heart rate and psychopathy in a prospective longitudinal study
Journal of Criminal Psychology, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between resting heart rate (RHR) and psychopathy. The literature on heart rate vs criminality (including violence) is quite clear; low RHR is associated with engaging in violent and criminal behavior. However, results are not as consistent for psychopathy. Design/methodology/approach This paper analyzes heart rate measured at ages 18 and 48, and psychopathy at age 48, in the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD). The CSDD is a prospective longitudinal study that has followed 411 boys from childh...
Source: Journal of Criminal Psychology - November 27, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
The unified crime theory and the social correlates of crime and violence: problems and solutions
Journal of Criminal Psychology, Ahead of Print. Purpose Criminology has produced more than a century of informative research on the social correlates of criminal behavior. Recently, a growing body of theoretical and empirical work has begun to apply evolutionary principles, particularly from life history theory (LHT), to the study of crime. As this body of research continues to grow, it is important that work in this area synthesizes evolutionary principles with the decades of sociological research on the correlates of crime. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The current paper reviews th...
Source: Journal of Criminal Psychology - November 7, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
The homicide circumplex: a new conceptual model and empirical examination
Journal of Criminal Psychology, Ahead of Print. Purpose Homicide is the most severe form of crime and one that imposes the greatest societal costs. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the homicide circumplex, a set of traits, behaviors, psychological and psychiatric features that are associated with greater homicidal ideation, homicidal social cognitive biases, homicide offending and victimization, and psychopathology that is facilitative of homicide. Design/methodology/approach Using the data from a near population of federal supervised release offenders from the Midwestern USA, ANOVA, multinomial logistic, Poisso...
Source: Journal of Criminal Psychology - October 30, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Parental rejection and antisocial behavior: the moderating role of testosterone
Journal of Criminal Psychology, Ahead of Print. Purpose Research reports a positive relationship between parental rejection and antisocial behavior in adolescents and young adults. Studies also report a positive association between testosterone and antisocial behavior. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether testosterone moderates the influence of parental rejection on antisocial behavior in a sample of young adults. Design/methodology/approach The current study analyzed a sample of undergraduate students (N=322) to examine the interaction between testosterone and parental rejection in the prediction of antisocia...
Source: Journal of Criminal Psychology - October 12, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Contextual variability in biopsychosocial pathways to violent offending
Journal of Criminal Psychology, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use data from the Longitudinal Study of Violent Criminal Behavior in the USA to examine case configurations of violent behavior using a biopsychosocial framework. Specifically, the theory posits that arguably all behavior is the result of specific combinations of biopsychological (individual) and sociocultural (environmental) characteristics that are interacting within the individual. With regard to criminal and violent behavior, the theoretical assumption is that this maladaptive behavior is the result of a negative interaction betwee...
Source: Journal of Criminal Psychology - October 4, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
May the choice be with you: assisting practitioners with selecting appropriate psychometric assessments for the medico legal arena
Journal of Criminal Psychology, Ahead of Print. Purpose Fraudulently claiming symptoms of mental disorder can be very lucrative for those in society who are willing to do so. One context that lends itself well to those willing to fraudulently claim symptoms of mental disorder is the road traffic accident. Previous research has indicated that the assessment practices of those charged with investigating psychological damages in the UK are not suitable in terms of detecting malingering. The purpose of this paper is to provide a “practitioner ready review” that outlines the structured psychometric assessment tools that ar...
Source: Journal of Criminal Psychology - October 4, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Contextual variability in biopsychosocial pathways to violent offending
Journal of Criminal Psychology, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use data from the Longitudinal Study of Violent Criminal Behavior in the USA to examine case configurations of violent behavior using a biopsychosocial framework. Specifically, the theory posits that arguably all behavior is the result of specific combinations of biopsychological (individual) and sociocultural (environmental) characteristics that are interacting within the individual. With regard to criminal and violent behavior, the theoretical assumption is that this maladaptive behavior is the result of a negative interaction betwee...
Source: Journal of Criminal Psychology - October 4, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
