Inhaltsangabe
Violent Offenders: Theory, Research, Public Policy and Practice provides the latest information to help students understand the many different types of violent offenders we hear about in the media daily, from homicide and sex offenders to financial predators and street criminals to serial killers and career criminals. The authors have compiled original scholarship from an international collection of applied and academic criminologists to provide students with a realistic and cutting-edge view of why people commit violent crimes and how our criminal justice system, as a whole, responds to these offenders and these violent acts. The text is divided into three sections. Part one covers the theoretical and disciplinary foundations of the study of violent behavior, spanning the disciplines of sociology, psychology, biology, and neuroscience. Part two discusses empirical and topical linkages to criminological subjects, including homicide offenders and victims, sex offenders, and gang members. Part three explores public policy and practical applications describing the various ways that criminal justice systems respond to violent offenders from the insightful perspectives of people who work among violent offenders on a daily basis.
Über die Autorinnen und Autoren
Matt DeLisi, Ph.D. is Professor and Coordinator of Criminal Justice Studies and Affiliate with the Center for the Study of Violence at Iowa State University. Professor DeLisi is one of the most prolific and highly-cited criminologists in the world and is the author of nearly 400 scholarly publications mostly in the areas of pathological criminality, psychopathy, self-control, offender/inmate behavior, corrections, and the genetics of antisocial behavior. In 2012, Dr. DeLisi received the prestigious Fellow Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. He has provided expert services and consulted on capital murder and multiple-homicide offender cases in multiple federal and state jurisdictions. Professor DeLisi has provided testimony to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee and consulted on criminal justice policy to a variety of federal stakeholders including the United States Attorney General, United States Probation and Pretrial Services, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and others.
Peter J. Conis, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Des Moines Area Community College. Academia is his second career. Previously, Dr. Conis was the Program Director for the S.T.O.P.' Violence Against Women project at the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA). In this capacity, he served as a member of the Lt. Governor's S.T.O.P. Violence Against Women Coordinating Council, the S.T.O.P. Violence Against Women Grant Review committee, the Iowa Domestic Abuse Death Review Team, the Dependent Adult Abuse Conference Steering committee, the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault Grant Review committee, the Healthy Iowans 2010 Team, and as the committee director for the S.T.O.P. Violence Against Women Annual Conference. Before joining the ILEA staff, Dr. Conis served 22 years as a law enforcement officer working both rural and urban jurisdictions in Iowa and one year as an investigator for the Story County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.
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