Drugs and Crime in Lifestyle Perspective / Edition 1

by Glenn D. Walters

Overview

This volume explores the correlation between drug abuse and crime. In examining the thinking and behavioural patterns common to both, it proposes a new explanatory model. Seeing involvement in drug abuse and crime as overlapping lifestyles, the author considers four primary factors: conditions, choices, cognitions and change. By comparing this new model with existing models, Walters provides new insight into drug abuse, crime and their overlap.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803956025
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/11/1994
Series:	Drugs, Health, and Social Policy , #1
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Glenn D. Walters received his Ph.D. at Texas Tech University in 1982 with a concentration in Counseling Psychology and a minor in Neuroscience. He is employed full-time as a psychologist in a correctional setting while also teaching courses, both graduate and undergraduate, as an Adjunct Professor at The Pennsylvania State University, Schuylkill, and Lehigh University. In addition to forensic psychology, he teaches abnormal psychology, psychological assessment, and developmental psychology. He has written two other books with SAGE: Drugs & Crime in Lifestyle Perspective (1994) and The Criminal Lifestyle: Patterns of Serious Criminal Conduct (1990). The present book is an outgrowth of the author's experiences teaching criminology and forensic psychology and the realization that crime is better understood once students appreciate the context of criminal development and desistance.

Table of Contents

The Drug-Crime Connection
Conditions
Choice
Cognition
Change
The Drug-Crime Connection Reconsidered

Editorial Reviews

Proposes a new explanatory model of the link between drugs and crime, seeing them as overlapping lifestyles connected by commonalities in thinking and behavior. Considers four factors: conditions, choices, cognitions, and change. The new series is projected to produce four volumes a year reporting on research helpful to professionals and students in public health and criminal justice. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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