The Criminal Personality

Chapter 1 The Reluctant Converts
Chapter 2 History of the Concept of the Criminal Personality
Chapter 3 The Criminal's Way of Life
Chapter 4 Thinking Errors Characteristic of the Criminal: I. Criminal Thinking Patterns
Chapter 5 Thinking Errors Characteristic of the Criminal: II. Automatic Errors of Thinking
Chapter 6 Thinking Errors Characteristic of the Criminal: III. From Idea Through Execution
Chapter 7 Non-arrestable Phases in the Criminal
Chapter 8 Tactics Obstructing Effective Transactions
Chapter 9 The Work in Perspective

The Criminal Personality is important reading for you. It is an often devastating book that is uncompromising in its refection of conventional wisdom in the field of criminal psychology. It rejects the concept of the criminal as biopsychosocial victim, and in its place formulates an accountability theory based on the premise that criminals freely choose and prefer lives of crime.