Aggression and Dangerousness

by David P. Farrington, John Gunn

This is the third and last volume in a series concerned with the contribution of psychiatry and psychology to all aspects of crime, offenders, the law, legal processes, the treatment of offenders and the criminal justice system. The books have given an opportunity to researchers in these fields to review contemporary developments, and for readers to obtain, in a convenient form, an overview in more detail than is possible in journals, of current issues of concern where law, psychology, and psychiatry interact. This particular, book, with its contributions from four of the five continents, deals with the characteristics of aggressive, psychopathic and dangerous offenders, and with methods of dealing with them.

271 pages, Hardcover

Published May 1, 1985

About the author

David Philip Farrington was a British criminologist, forensic psychologist, and emeritus professor of psychological criminology at the University of Cambridge, where he was also a Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellow. In 2014, Paul Hawkins and Bitna Kim wrote that Farrington "is considered one of the leading psychologists and main contributors to the field of criminology in recent years."