1st Edition

Offending Behaviour

By Emma J Palmer Copyright 2003
240 Pages
by Willan

240 Pages
by Willan

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the relationship between psychology, moral reasoning theory and offending behaviour. It sets out the theory and research which has been carried out in the field, and examines the ways in which this knowledge has been used in practice to inform treatment programmes for offenders. This book pays particular attention to Kohlberg's theory of... Read more
Introduction  1. Setting the context: theories of offending behaviour  2. Theories of moral reasoning 1: Piaget and Kohlberg  3. Theories of moral reasoning 2: critiques of Kohlberg's theory  4. The measurement of moral reasoning  5. Moral reasoning and offending: theory and research  6. Placing moral reasoning in a wider explanation of offending  7. Interventions: implications for practice 8 What next: the future for research and practice

Biography

Emma Palmer is a Reader in Forensic Psychology at the University of Leicester. Her research focuses on applying psychology to offending and its prevention, and her most recent book is Offending Behaviour Programmes: Development, application and controversies (Wiley, 2006).