1st Edition
Closing the Integration Gap in Criminology The Case for Criminal Thinking
PART I: Integration in Criminology
1. An Integrated Theory of Crime: Vital Mission or Fool’s Errand?
2. A Brief History of Theoretical Integration in Criminology
3. The Latent Structure of Crime-Related Constructs
4. Risk Factors, Triads, and Elaboration
PART II: Integrating with Criminal Thinking
5. Lies, Cons, and Carnival Games: Understanding Criminal Thinking
6. The Mask of Deception: Defining Criminal Thinking
7. Nature of the Beast: Assessing Criminal Thinking
8. Criminal Thinking as a Risk Factor
9. Criminal Thinking in Triads
10. Criminal Thinking and the Elaboration Process
11. Applying Integrated Theory: Practice and Policy
12. You Are What You Think
Biography
Glenn D. Walters is Professor of Criminal Justice at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. As a forensic psychologist, he worked for three decades in federal government as a clinical psychologist and drug program coordinator for military and federal prison inmates. He has published widely in criminology, including on addiction. He has developed a Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS). He argues that criminality is best understood and prevented by examining how it develops within the context of a person’s life and has critiqued genetic studies via meta-analytic research.
