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1. Cognition and Crime

   Offender Decision Making and Script Analyses

   Edited by Benoit Leclerc, Richard Wortley

   Series: Crime Science Series

   The rational choice perspective developed by Cornish and Clarke in 1986 provides criminologists with a valuable and practical framework for purposes of crime control and prevention. More than twenty-five years later, Cognition and Crime pushes the boundaries of this field of research by bringing...

   To Be Published August 12th 2013 by Routledge
2. Psychological Criminology

   An Integrative Approach

   By Richard Wortley

   Psychological criminology addresses the question: what is it about individuals and their experiences that cause them to commit crime and/or to become criminal? This book provides a comprehensive coverage of psychological theories of crime and criminality, exploring theories focusing on factors...

   Published April 18th 2011 by Willan
3. Psychological Criminology

   An Integrative Approach

   By Richard Wortley

   Series: Crime Science Series

   Psychological criminology addresses the question: what is it about individuals and their experiences that cause them to commit crime and/or to become criminal? This book provides a comprehensive coverage of psychological theories of crime and criminality, exploring theories focusing on factors...

   Published April 12th 2011 by Willan
4. Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis

   Edited by Richard Wortley, Lorraine Mazerolle

   Series: Crime Science Series

   Environmental criminology is a generic label that covers a range of overlapping perspectives. At the core, the various strands of environmental criminology are bound by a common focus on the role that the immediate environment plays in the performance of crime, and a conviction that careful...

   Published May 31st 2008 by Willan
5. Preventing Child Sexual Abuse

   Evidence, Policy and Practice

   By Stephen Smallbone, William L. Marshall, Richard Wortley

   Series: Crime Science Series

   Public policy responses to child sexual abuse are dominated by interventions designed to take effect only after offenders have already begun offending, and after children have already been sexually abused. Comparatively little attention has been given to alternative prevention strategies –...

   Published March 31st 2008 by Willan