The Criminal Personality: A Profile for Change

by Samuel Yochelson, Stanton E. Samenow, Stanton Samenow

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876682182
• ISBN13: 9780876682180
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

the best book for anyone working in the correctional field

This is the best book I have ever read covering both the topics of personality disorders and the forensic setting; this book can easily be recommended as an enlightening and straightforward guide to anyone who is working in the correctional field

Criminal Personality - Vol I

This book is well written and understandable for those who are just getting started in working with the prison population. I look forward to reading the other 2 volumes I hae purchased.

Ponderer

Although repetitive in places, not overly so for a research report of many years, it is informative. It is probably as deep a look into `the thinking pattern of criminals' as I have encountered. This research concludes the `criminal' has an anti social mind set by the age of ten, but does not endeavor to dissect what causes it. [Too many variables outside the observation of the researchers] It sticks to its expertise, the thinking patterns, and influence on the behavioral patterns of convicted (and otherwise identified) criminal. A must read for anyone wanting to understand why people commit crimes.

The next step and a must have for those woring with felons

This is an excellent book to continue the journey of understanding the Criminal Mind. This book is more detailed. It shows the drawbacks and the difficulty working with this population. It examines every approach from the past up to and including the present in trying to change Criminal behavior. Why methods have failed and what holds promise. Most of the research was done by a man named Samuel Yochelson who shared his ideas and work with Dr Samenow. Together they untangle the maze that has baffled many on this topic. A must have for those working in the criminal justice fields.

Answers why criminals are that way and how to fix them.

"Conventional wisdom" about criminals is wrong. Dr. Yochelson found why criminals are the way they are and how to habilitate them. Volume I exposes the areas in which criminals are different than responsible people. Volume II is a method for correcting those differences, but, as joke says, "they gotta wanna change." Read these books to find out why the current system doesn't rehabilitate habitual criminals. Dr. Samenow collaborated on these volumes and wrote other books for the general audiance.