Evolution and Crime / Edition 1

by Jason Roach, Ken Pease

Overview

This fascinating new book opens up new ways of looking at different aspects of crime and crime control, exploring the potential contribution that a more welcoming approach to the evolutionary perspective would make to criminology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781843923923
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/12/2013
Series:	Crime Science Series
Pages:	138
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jason Roach is a Chartered Psychologist, a Reader in Crime and Policing, and the Director of the Crime and Policing Group at the University of Huddersfield. He has worked for the UK Home Office, taught at the Crime Reduction College, and worked in various mental health settings. He has published work on various criminological topics including criminal investigative practice, homicide and violent crime, terrorism, and Offender Self-Selection.

Ken Pease is a chartered forensic psychologist and currently Visiting Professor and Fellow of University College London and Visiting Professor at the University Loughbrough.

Table of Contents

1. Crime and Evolution: Strange Companions?, 2. People Who Need People?, 3. Empathy, Theory of Mind and Criminal Behaviour, 4. The Sense of Fairness and the Emergence of Criminal Justice, 5. Violence, 6. Crime: It's a man thing?, 7. Beyond the proximal: evolution, environments and criminal behaviour, 8. The Ultimate Mystery of Inheritance, 9. So What?