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The Criminally Insane

A Community Follow-up of Mentally Ill Offenders

By: Terence Thornberry,Joseph E. Jacoby

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The Criminally Insane

A Community Follow-up of Mentally Ill Offenders

By: Terence Thornberry,Joseph E. Jacoby

The Criminally Insane is the largest scale in-depth follow-up study on mentally ill criminals yet to appear. This book challenges the assumption that inmates of maximum-security mental hospitals are extraordinarily violent and questions the necessity for maintaining maximum-security institutions which currently house some 15,000 persons in the United States. In 1971, 586 patients were released from a Pennsylvania maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. They were not considered officially "cured," but a federal court held that their commitments had been unconstitutional. Through exhaustive examination of hospital and police records and interviews with hospital administrators and the subjects themselves, Thornberry and Jacoby assess the processes by which the patients had been retained in confinement, the impact of their release upon their communities, and their ability to adjust to the freedom of community life. The authors demonstrate that the patients did not display a significant level of violent behavior during confinement, nor did they pose a major threat to society after release. In fact, their social and psychological adjustment to community life is shown to have been comparable to that of non-criminal mental patients. Yet despite these findings the subjects had been retained in maximum-security confinement for an average of fourteen years because they were predicted to be violent and "dangerous" to society. The authors explain this inaccuracy by a process called "political prediction," in which clinicians avoid any potential risks to the community, the reputation of their hospitals, and their careers by consistently overpredicting dangerous behavior. The Criminally Insane will stimulate response from professionals in a wide variety of fields, including law, criminology, psychiatry, and sociology, and from anyone concerned with society's responsibility to the mentally ill offender.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226798186

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Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective

By: Terence P. Thornberry

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Cambridge University Press

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0521891299

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Developmental Theories Of Crime And Delinquency

By: Terence P. Thornberry

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Developmental Theories Of Crime And Delinquency

By: Terence P. Thornberry

In Developmental Theories of Crime and Delinquency, Terence P. Thornberry and his contributors show that criminal behavior is not a static human attribute, but ebbs and flows over the life course of the individual. Criminal behavior tends to follow a distinct psychological pattern. It is relatively uncommon during childhood, is initiated by most offenders during adolescence, flourishes during late adolescence and early childhood, and usually diminishes or disappears by the mid-twenties. This pattern is not characteristic of all people--some never commit crimes and others become career criminals--but it is a general description of the developmental pattern of criminal offenders. This pattern has profound implications for theories of crime and delinquency. Not only does it explain initiation into, maintenance of, and desistance from involvement in crime, it offers insight into why crime flourishes during adolescence. Traditional theories of crime and delinquency have often failed to distinguish among different phases of criminal careers. They tend to ignore developmental changes that occur across a person's life course, changes that coincide with and can explain the causes and patterns of criminal behavior. This paperback edition of the seventh volume of the distinguished series Advances in Criminological Theory moves us from static identifications of the criminal by presenting a broad range of developmental explanations of crime. Each contributor articulates a developmental or life course perspective in explaining how people become involved in delinquency and crime. Each covers a wide range of theoretical territory and reveals how a developmental perspective enhances the explanatory power of traditional theories of crime and delinquency. This volume is an invaluable tool for criminologists, sociologists, psychologists, and other professionals seeking to teach how crime and violence can be understood in our culture.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412821673

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The Criminally Insane

A Community Follow-up of Mentally Ill Offenders

By: Terence Thornberry,Joseph E. Jacoby

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A Community Follow-up of Mentally Ill Offenders

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Measuring Crime and Delinquency Over the Life Course

Analyses from the Rochester Youth Development Study

By: Alex R. Piquero,Terence P. Thornberry,Marvin D. Krohn,Alan J. Lizotte,Nicole Leeper Piquero

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Measuring Crime and Delinquency Over the Life Course

Analyses from the Rochester Youth Development Study

By: Alex R. Piquero,Terence P. Thornberry,Marvin D. Krohn,Alan J. Lizotte,Nicole Leeper Piquero

Measuring Crime and Delinquency Over the Life Course presents one of the most detailed analyses of the longitudinal pattern of crime and delinquency, using data from one of the most famous longitudinal studies ever conducted in the field, the Rochester Youth Development Study, as well as complimentary data on offending from both official and self-report records. Never before has such information been presented with a specific focus on changes in offending patterns between adolescence and adulthood among individuals differentiated by race and gender. This project will undertake a replication of the classic Hindelang, Hirschi, and Weis (1981) book, Measuring Delinquency. Aside from replicating key chapters, the proposed project will move beyond this previous work in three important ways: (1) it will present a comparison of both self-report and official records of offending among the same persons; (2) it will extend the previous analyses by also conducting race/ethnic comparisons, specifically by including Hispanics, as well as conducting gender comparisons; and (3) it will examine whether self-report estimates of offending at a previous time period relate to official records of offending at a later time period. The authors of this book are among the leading life-course criminologists in the world, and their collective theoretical, methodological, statistical and policy expertise will make this book one of the key readings in criminology generally, and life-course criminology in particular.

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1441904867

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Book's by Terence Thornberry

The Criminally Insane

The Criminally Insane

Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective

Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective

Developmental Theories Of Crime And Delinquency

Developmental Theories Of Crime And Delinquency

The Criminally Insane

The Criminally Insane

Measuring Crime and Delinquency Over the Life Course

Measuring Crime and Delinquency Over the Life Course

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