Violent Offenders : Theory, Research, Policy, and Practice

Part I - Theory and Research Chapter 1: The Importance of Violent Offenders to Criminology Chapter 2: The Overlap of Violent Offending and Violent Victimization: Assessing the Evidence and Explanations Chapter 3: Community Level Correlates of Crime Chapter 4: Where I'm From: Criminal Predators and Their Environments Chapter 5: Towards an Understanding of the Development of Chronic, Serious, and Violent Offending Chapter 6: Still Psychopathic After All These Years Chapter 7: The Behavioral Genetics of Predatory Criminal Behavior Chapter 8: Vigilance, Violence, and Murder in Mateships Chapter 9: Early Risk Factors for Homicide Offenders and Victims Chapter 10: Generality of Deviance and Predation: Crime-Switching and Specialization Patterns in Persistent Sexual Offenders Chapter 11: Comparing Women and Men Who Kill Chapter 12: Female Sexual Offending Chapter 13: Antisocial Trajectories of Sexual Aggressors of Women Chapter 14: The Heterogeneity of Predatory Behaviors in Sexual Homicide Chapter 15: Understanding Sexual Homicide Offending: Precrime Behavior and Decision-Making of Sexual Murderers Part II - Policy and Practice Chapter 16: Focused Deterrence Strategies and the Reduction Gang and Group-Involved Violence Chapter 17: Gang Involvement and Predatory Crime Chapter 18: Arrested Today, Out Tomorrow: Patrol Officers' Perceptions of a Broken Justice System Chapter 19: Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders and Implications for Juvenile Justice Systems Chapter 20: Sex Offending: Empirical Evidence and Policy and Practice Chapter 21: Prosecuting Criminal Predators Chapter 22: Alternative Adjudication Methods for Offenders with Mental Health Problems Chapter 23: Violent Offenders: A Perspective on Dynamic Federal Supervision Practices Chapter 24: Criminal Predatory Behavior in the Federal Bureau of Prisons Chapter 25: Institutional Misconduct Among Capital Murderers Chapter 26: Civil Commitment Laws for Sexual Predators Chapter 27: Novel Techniques to Detect the Multiple-Event Murderer: An Exploration of a Researcher's Field Notes Chapter 28: Running to Stand Still? Reentry and Violent Offenders