The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Seventh Edition, provides a psychological and evidence-informed perspective of criminal behavior that sets it apart from many criminological and mental health explanations of criminal behavior. Drawing upon the General Personality and Cognitive Social Learning theory, James Bonta and Donald Andrews provide an overview of the theoretical context and major knowledge base of the psychology of criminal conduct, discuss the eight major risk/need factors of criminal conduct, examine the prediction and classification of criminal behavior along with prevention and rehabilitation, and summarize the major issues in understanding criminal conduct. This book also offers the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model of assessment and treatment that has guided developments in the subject throughout the world. Bonta carefully maintains the book’s original contributions while presenting core concepts succinctly, clearly, and elegantly. Appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate students as well as for scholars, researchers, and practitioners, The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Seventh Edition, further extends and refines the authors’ body of work. The book is extended and enhanced by a website that includes: A curated selection of videos, webinars and podcast episodes, bringing together diverse voices from leaders across the field of corrections and criminal psychology Technical notes providing additional context and detail to concepts explored in the book Interactive quizzes to test understanding and support study Lecture slides, exercises and test banks designed to save instructors time

"The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Seventh Edition, provides a psychological and evidence-informed perspective of criminal behavior that sets it apart from many criminological and mental health explanations of criminal behavior. Drawing upon the General Personality and Cognitive Social Learning theory, James Bonta and Donald Andrews provide an overview of the theoretical context and major knowledge base of the psychology of criminal conduct, discuss the eight major risk/need factors of criminal conduct, examine the prediction and classification of criminal behavior along with prevention and rehabilitation, and summarize the major issues in understanding criminal conduct. This book also offers the Risk/Need/Responsivity (RNR) model of assessment and treatment that has guided developments in the subject throughout the world. Bonta carefully maintains the book's original contributions while presenting core concepts succinctly, clearly, and elegantly. Appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate students as well as for scholars, researchers, and practitioners, The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Seventh Edition, further extends and refines the authors' body of work"--

Focused on electronic monitoring in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland. Evaluation used comparison groups of inmates and probationers, but also introduced controls for offender risk, thus being able to investigate the impact of electronic monitoring, and treatment, on offender recidivism.

Crime in Canada has not increased; public perception, media and statistics gathering are discussed in this report.

In response to one of the recommendations of the federal/provincial/territorial task force on high risk violent offenders, a research project was undertaken to provide empirical data that would assist Crown attorneys in the application of the dangerous offender provisions. The penitentiary and court riles of 64 dangerous offenders (DOs) from Ontario and British Columbia were reviewed in order to construct a comprehensive description of this group of offenders. The DOs were then compared to another high risk violent group of 34 detention failures (DFs). In the second part of the research project, 21 Crown attorneys (including one from Quebec) with experience in the application of the dangerous offender provisions were interviewed.

Executive summary-- Offender rehabilitation : from research to practice-- The key characteristics of effective intervention-- Evaluating the treatment principles-- Criminal sanctions and offender rehabilitation-- Implementing the results of research-- References.

Prisoners.

Violence, psychological aspects.