The Criminal Personality presents a detailed description of criminal thinking and action patterns and convincingly argues that these patterns cannot be explained by sociologic or psychologic explanations alone.
The Criminal Personality presents a detailed description of criminal thinking and action patterns and convincingly argues that these patterns cannot b...
_Yochelson and Samenow attribute crime to a series of early irresponsible choices that predate drug use among drug-using criminals. Personality and personal choice variables are conceptualized as critical in initialing and maintaining use. In what is called an indiscriminate search for excitement, drug-using criminals are characterized as expanding their criminal repertoire while excusing their actions by rationalizations sometimes invented by sociologists, psychologists, and psychiatrists. Although these ideas are of considerable interest, the real value of the text lies in its intriguing...
_Yochelson and Samenow attribute crime to a series of early irresponsible choices that predate drug use among drug-using criminals. Personality and pe...
This is the second of a three volume landmark study of the criminal mind. This book describes an intensive therapeutic approach designed to completely change the criminals way of thinking. The authors reject traditional treatment approaches as reinforcing of the criminals sense of being a victim of society. Rather Yochelson and Samenow stress that the criminal must make a choice to give up criminal thinking and learn morality. A Jason Aronson Book
This is the second of a three volume landmark study of the criminal mind. This book describes an intensive therapeutic approach designed to completely...
Studing the criminal mind, this book describes an intensive therapeutic approach designed to change the criminals way of thinking. It rejects traditional treatment approaches as reinforcing of the criminals sense of being a victim of society, and stresses that the criminal must make a choice to give up criminal thinking and learn morality.
Studing the criminal mind, this book describes an intensive therapeutic approach designed to change the criminals way of thinking. It rejects traditio...
"The third in a series explicating the criminal mind, this volume summarizes observations, interpretations, and conclusions derived from a study of 121 criminal men who used drugs and/or alcohol to excess. Originally set in writing by Yochelson before his death in 1976, the materials were edited and updated by Samenow for publication. Systematic, probing and repeated interviews were used as the vehicle for gathering information on common mental themes among men apprehended and sentenced for criminal acts.... Yochelson and Samenow attribute crime to a series of early irresponsible choices that...
"The third in a series explicating the criminal mind, this volume summarizes observations, interpretations, and conclusions derived from a study of 12...
