Criminal Belief Systems: An Integrated-Interactive Theory of Lifestyles
By Glenn D. Walters.
Description
Walters integrates information from traditional criminological models and findings from developmental psychology to form a system of five belief systems (self-view, world-view, past-view, present-view, and future-view) designed to explain crime initiation and maintenance. While reviewing belief systems that support crime, Walters also offers a model of change through which belief systems incongruent with crime can be constructed.He begins with a review of six traditional criminological models, each of which is considered to possess sufficient breadth and substance to advance our understandi...
ISBN(s)
0275978206, 9780275978204
