| List of illustrations | p. x |
| Acknowledgements | p. xii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| What is psychological criminology? | p. 1 |
| Defining crime and criminals | p. 3 |
| Debates about the nature of crime and criminality | p. 7 |
| Psychological theories of crime and criminality: an integrated model | p. 15 |
| Human nature | p. 20 |
| The principles of evolution | p. 20 |
| Evolution and behaviour | p. 24 |
| Crime-focused evolutionary approaches | p. 30 |
| Offender-focused evolutionary approaches | p. 35 |
| Conclusion and evaluation | p. 40 |
| Heredity | p. 42 |
| A primer in behavioural genetics | p. 42 |
| Heritability of criminality | p. 49 |
| Variations in the heritability of criminality | p. 57 |
| Beyond behavioural genetics: molecular genetics | p. 61 |
| Conclusion and evaluation | p. 62 |
| The brain | p. 65 |
| Basic brain structures and functions | p. 65 |
| Psychophysiology and crime | p. 73 |
| Biochemistry and crime | p. 74 |
| Neuroanatomy and crime | p. 77 |
| Neuro-environmental factors and crime | p. 81 |
| Putting it together: neuropsychological theories of crime | p. 85 |
| Conclusion and evaluation | p. 88 |
| Personality | p. 90 |
| Trait approaches to personality | p. 90 |
| The single-trait approach and crime | p. 96 |
| The super-trait approach: Eysenck's three-factor theory of crime | p. 100 |
| Antisocial personality disorder (APD) | p. 106 |
| Conclusion and evaluation | p. 113 |
| Development | p. 115 |
| The biological and environmental foundations of human development | p. 115 |
| Developmental risk and protective factors for crime | p. 121 |
| Psychosocial development and crime | p. 126 |
| Criminal careers | p. 132 |
| Conclusion and evaluation | p. 137 |
| Learning | p. 139 |
| The science of behaviour | p. 139 |
| Classical conditioning | p. 145 |
| Operant conditioning | p. 151 |
| Social learning | p. 155 |
| Conclusion and evaluation | p. 160 |
| Cognition | p. 162 |
| The cognitive revolution | p. 162 |
| Social cognitive theory | p. 166 |
| Offender decision-making | p. 174 |
| Schemas and scripts | p. 180 |
| Conclusion and evaluation | p. 184 |
| Situations | p. 185 |
| What is a situation? | p. 186 |
| Social psychology | p. 191 |
| Environmental psychology | p. 195 |
| Opportunity theories | p. 199 |
| The person-situation interaction (again) | p. 205 |
| Conclusion and evaluation | p. 206 |
| Conclusion | p. 208 |
| The argument in a nutshell | p. 208 |
| The strengths and limits of integration | p. 210 |
| Implications for practice | p. 212 |
| Bibliography | p. 216 |
| Index | p. 261 |
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