The Causes and Cures of Criminality
The title that the authors have chosen for this book, The Causes and Cures of Criminality, suggests that it may be just another book specu lating on the sociological evils that need to be put right for "everything in the garden to be lovely." If this is
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PERSPECTIVES ON INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES CECIL R. REYNOLDS, Texas A&M University, College Station ROBERT T. BROWN, University oj North Carolina, Wilmington
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HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY Edited by John A. Glover and Royce R. Ronning
THE INDIVIDUAL SUBJECT AND SCIENTIFIC PSYCHOLOGY Edited by Jaan Valsiner
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THE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES A Developmental Perspective Edited by Lawrence C. Hartlage and Cathy F. Telzrow
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The Causes and Cures of Criminality Hans J. Eysenck and Gisli H. Gudjonsson Institute of Psychiatry University of London London, England
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Library of Congress Cataloging in PubJication Data Eysenck, H. J. (Hans Jurgen), 1916The causes and cures of criminaJity. (Perspectives on individual differences) Bibliography: p. lncludes index. 1. Criminal psychology. 2. Crime prevention. 3. Rehabilitation of criminals. 1. Gudjonsson, Gisli H. Il. Title. III. Series. HV6080.E89 1988 364.3/01/9 88-28898 ISBN 978-1-4419-3210-5 ISBN 978-1-4757-6726-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-6726-1
First Printing- February 1989 Second Printing- March 1991 © 1989 Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Plenum Press, New York in 1989 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover lst edition 1989
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Sedulo curavi humanas actiones non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere. SPINOZA
(I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, nor to scorn human actions, but to understand them.)
Foreword
The title that the authors have chosen for this book, The Causes and Cures of Criminality, suggests that it may be just another book speculating on the sociological evils that need to be put right for "everything in the garden to be lovely." If this is the expectation, the reader could not be more mistaken. The recurrent theme, in fact, is a strong accent on psychological experiments. Both authors have tackled the theoretical and practical side of crime throu
