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The Psychology of Criminal Conduct
Seventh Edition

About the Book

The Psychology of Criminal Conduct Seventh Edition, provides a psychological and evidence-informed perspective of criminal behavior that sets it apart from many criminological and mental health explanations of criminal behavior. Drawing upon the General Personality and Cognitive Social Learning theory, James Bonta and Donald Andrews provide an overview of the theoretical context and major knowledge base of the psychology of criminal conduct, discuss the eight major risk/need factors of criminal conduct, examine the prediction and classification of criminal behavior along with prevention and rehabilitation, and summarize the major issues in understanding criminal conduct. This book also offers the Risk/Need/Responsivity (RNR) model of assessment and treatment that has guided developments in the subject throughout the world.

Bonta carefully maintains the book’s original contributions while presenting core concepts succinctly, clearly, and elegantly. Appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate students as well as for scholars, researchers, and practitioners, The Psychology of Criminal Conduct Seventh Edition, further extends and refines the author’s body of work.

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This website has been created to provide supplementary support to readers of the textbook, The Psychology of Criminal Conduct by James Bonta and Donald Andrews. It contains curated resources to support and enhance the topics covered in the textbook, including interactive quizzes, technical notes and a curated selection of multimedia material bringing together expertise from leaders across the field of corrections and criminal psychology. On the Instructors section of this site, you can find PowerPoint slides, exercises and activities, and test questions.

On the main site, the resources have been separated by chapter, so that it is easy to find content relevant to the section of the textbook you are reading. Reviewing the ‘Chapter Overview’ sections and having a go at the multiple-choice quiz before you read a chapter can help prime you to read the text more strategically. You can have another go at the quiz after you finish the chapter to test what you have learned and identify any knowledge gaps.

Many of the chapters are accompanied by material contributed by experts in the field of corrections and criminal psychology. This content offers diverse perspectives on areas such as criminology theory, the application of assessment tools and the state of corrections today. Some of the videos have been split into parts, so that sections can be viewed alongside relevant chapter content, but full versions can be viewed on the Videos tab.

Since its first publication almost three decades ago, The Psychology of Criminal Conduct has revolutionised the field of correctional intervention. Now, for the first time ever, we bring together the work of practitioners whose careers have been influenced by Andrews and Bonta, to gain a full overview of correctional intervention in practice.

About the Authors

James Bonta served as Director of Corrections Research at Public Safety Canada from 1990 until 2015. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Ottawa in 1979. Bonta was a psychologist, and later Chief Psychologist, at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre, a maximum-security remand facility for adults and young offenders. Throughout his career, Bonta has held various academic appointments and professional posts. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, a recipient of the Association’s Criminal Justice Section’s Career Contribution Award for 2009, the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, 2012, the Maud Booth Correctional Services Award, 2015, and the 2015 Community Corrections Award from the International Corrections and Prisons Association.

The late D.A. Andrews was a noted psychologist affiliated with Carleton University throughout his academic career. His work on the psychology of criminal conduct produced what became known as the "theory of correctional intervention," which set the standard for successful intervention practices throughout the field of corrections worldwide. He was a founding member of Carleton’s Criminology and Criminal Justice Program and a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association.