Drugs and Crime in Lifestyle Perspective

1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-8039-5602-5
Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc.

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 231 g

Reihe: Drugs, Health, and Social Policy

Glenn D. Walter's short book Drugs and Crime in Lifestyle Perspective is another gem; it works purposefully with the complexity and diversity of the drugs-crime linkages and connections insisting that traditional ways of researching and intervening with those caught up in deviant lifestyles where drugs and crime are endemic, are unproductive. This is a book for 'thinking' practitioners and those concerned with creating local multiagency policy or working with drug users and offenders selling or using drugs. It offers no easy assessments or solutions but is the more productive for that. --Howard Parker in British Journal of

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walters, Glenn D.

Walters

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie der Lebensart, Well-Being
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Drug-Crime Connection
Conditions
Choice
Cognition
Change
The Drug-Crime Connection Reconsidered

Über Autor(innen)

Walters, Glenn D.
<b>Glenn D. Walters</b> received his Ph.D. at Texas Tech University in 1982 with a concentration in Counseling Psychology and a minor in Neuroscience. He is employed full-time as a psychologist in a correctional setting while also teaching courses, both graduate and undergraduate, as an Adjunct Professor at The Pennsylvania State University, Schuylkill, and Lehigh University. In addition to forensic psychology, he teaches abnormal psychology, psychological assessment, and developmental psychology. He has written two other books with SAGE: <i>Drugs & Crime in Lifestyle Perspective </i>(1994) and <i>The Criminal Lifestyle: Patterns of Serious Criminal Conduct</i> (1990). The present book is an outgrowth of the author's experiences teaching criminology and forensic psychology and the realization that crime is better understood once students appreciate the context of criminal development and desistance.