Psychosocial Criminology demonstrates how a psychosocial approach can illuminate the causes of particular crimes, challenging readers to re-think the similarities and differences between themselves and those involved in crime.

The book critiques existing psychological and sociological theories before outlining a more adequate understanding of the criminal offender. It sheds new light on a series of crimes-rape, serial murder, racial harassment, ‘jack-rolling’ (mugging of drunks), domestic violence-and contemporary criminological issues such as fear of crime, cognitive-behavioral interventions and restorative justice.

Preface and Acknowledgements

1 Why Psychosocial Criminlogy?

2 Psychology and the Criminological Subject

3 Sociology and the Criminological Subject

4 Towards a Psychosocial Subject: the Case of Gender

5 Anxiety, Defensiveness and the Fear of Crime

6 Feminism, Ambivalence and Date Rape

7 Vulnerability, Violence and Serial Murder:The Case of Jeffrey Dahmer

8 Understanding the Perpetrators of Racial Harassment

9 Re-reading 'The Jack-Roller' as a Defended Subject

10 Domestic Abuse, Denial and Cognitive-behavioural Interventions

11 Restorative Justice, Reintegrative Shaming and Intersubjectivity

12 Conclusion

References

Index