Transient Criminality: A Model of Stress-Induced Crime

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Mawson proposes that transient criminality results from acute environmental stress and/or physiological disturbances in a context of diminished social supports. He posits a synthesis of situational factors and social and life-sciences concepts to explain stress-induced crime, and illustrates how the resulting model can explain theft, burglary, vandalism, homicide, assault, and rape. . . . will be helpful to any who wants to understand more about single or spasmodic violent crime perpetrators. Police & Security Bulletin Mawson proposes that transient criminality results from acute environmental stress and/or physiological disturbances in a context of diminished social supports. He posits a synthesis of situational factors and social and life-sciences concepts to explain stress-induced crime, and illustrates how the resulting model can explain theft, burglary, vandalism, homicide, assault, and rape. This new text includes discussions on the existing literature on the link between stress and criminality; the existing models of stress-induced crime; a new model of motivational behavior; a critique of the concept of conscience; the application of a new model to specific types of crime; and the various cognitive transformations in relation to crime.

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. . . will be helpful to any who want to understand more about single or spasmodic violent crime perpetrators.-Police & Security Bulletin
. . . work like that of Dr Mawson which seeks to establish the facts in a scholarly manner is of very great value in providing some valid framework of justification for the more humane attitudes of to-day, and some firm ground from which to push forward.-The Aldenhamian
." . . will be helpful to any who want to understand more about single or spasmodic violent crime perpetrators."-Police & Security Bulletin
." . . work like that of Dr Mawson which seeks to establish the facts in a scholarly manner is of very great value in providing some valid framework of justification for the more humane attitudes of to-day, and some firm ground from which to push forward."-The Aldenhamian

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ANTHONY R. MAWSON is Research Epidemiologist, Section of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Department of Medicine at the Louisiana State University Medical Center.