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Theories of Crime

A clear introduction to the main theories of crime in psychology, sociology, economics, geography, and biology.

Individual-Focused Theories of Crime

How biological vulnerability, neuropsychology, and impulse control are used to understand risk of crime at the individual level.

Genetics and Crime

What research on genes, aggression, and repeated violence actually says, and what it cannot predict.

The Criminal Brain: ADHD, Brain Injuries, Empathy, and Risk

How brain function, executive difficulties, ADHD, and brain injuries can affect risk without on their own explaining criminality.

Forensic Psychology

How knowledge about thoughts, emotions, and behavior is applied across investigations, courts, and correctional care.

Eyewitness Psychology

How people perceive, store, and recall memories of events they have witnessed, and why memory is reconstructive rather than exact.

Recognizing Faces

How face recognition works, and why witnesses are often less reliable at identifying strangers than they believe.

The Memory Process and Reconstructive Memories

How memories are formed, stored, and rebuilt each time they are recalled, rather than replayed exactly as they happened.

Mental Illness and Crime

Mental ill health is far more common in prison populations than in the general population, but it is rarely a cause of crime on its own.

Offender Profiling

How investigators analyze crime scenes and behavior to say something about who the offender is and where they may be.

Deductive Offender Profiling

How conclusions about an offender are drawn from the facts and evidence of a single case, rather than from statistics on past crimes.

Geographic Offender Profiling

How the locations of linked crimes are used to predict where an offender is likely to live and move.