Empathy versus Offending, Aggression and Bullying

Darrick Jolliffe is Professor of Criminology and Head of the School of Law and Criminology at the University of Greenwich. He has published extensively in the areas of empathy, individual differences and offending, developmental life-course criminology, punishment and offending, and has conducted numerous research studies for National and International Government Agencies. David P. Farrington, O.B.E., is Emeritus Professor of Psychological Criminology at Cambridge University. He has received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology and he has been President of the American Society of Criminology. His major research interest is in developmental criminology, and he is Director of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, which is a prospective longitudinal survey of over 400 London males from age 8 to age 61. In addition to 850 published journal articles and book chapters on criminological and psychological topics, he has published 115 books, monographs, and government publications, and 161 shorter publications.

• Foreword by Friedrich Lösel1: Measuring empathy using the Basic Empathy ScaleDarrick Jolliffe and David P. FarringtonPart I. The Basic Empathy Scale and Parenting2: The Basic Empathy Scale: Psychometric Properties and Contributions to the Understanding of Antisocial BehaviourMiguel Basto-Pereira and David P. Farrington3: Parents’ Empathy and Child Attachment Security: A Brief ReviewEvelyn Heynen, Ellin Simon, Peer van der Helm, Geert Jan Stams and Mark Assink4: Parenting Style and Empathy in Youth: A Three-level Meta-Analysis Evelyn Heynen, Peer van der Helm, Ellin Simon, Geert Jan Stams, and Mark AssinkPart II. Empathy and Offending5: Contextual Correlates of EmpathyPeer van der Helm6: Empathy, Convictions, and Self-Reported Offending of Males and Females in the Cambridge Study in Delinquent DevelopmentDavid P. Farrington and Darrick Jolliffe7: Empathy and Reoffending in a UK Probation SampleDarrick Jolliffe and David P. Farrington8: Empathy and Psychopathy: How are they Related in Men and Women? Henriette Bergstrøm, Darrick Jolliffe and David P. Farrington9: Correlates of Affective and Cognitive Empathy Among Incarcerated Male and Female Youth OffendersPedro Pechorro, Darrick Jolliffe and Cristina Nunes10: The Relationship between Empathy, Clinical Problems and Reoffending in a Sample of Canadian Male OffendersChristopher J. Koegl11: Enhancing Empathy Amongst Mentally Disordered Offenders with Music TherapyStella Compton-Dickinson and Darrick JolliffePart III: Aggression and Bullying12: Cognitive Empathy as a Moderator in the Relation Between Negative Emotionality Traits and Schoolchildren’s Aggressive BehavioursNoelia Sánchez-Pérez and Carmen González-Salinas13: Low Cognitive Empathy and its Relationship to Relational, Online, and Physical Aggression in young adults in Australia. Tara Renae McGee, Darrick Jolliffe, Li Eriksson, Christine E.W. Bond and David P. Farrington14: Empathy in Polish and Spanish Children and Adolescents: Validation of the Basic Empathy Scale and its Relation to Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Other Antisocial BehavioursIzabela Zych, David P. Farrington, Darrick Jolliffe and Estera Twardowska-Staszek15: Risk Factors for Cyberbullying: The Mediating Role of Empathy in Adolescents in Italy in a One-year Follow-up StudyAnna Sorrentino, Anna Costanza Baldry, Darrick Jolliffe, and David P. Farrington16: A Retrospective Examination of Bullying Victimization During High School: Exploring Narcissism Deficits and EmpathyJeffrey A. Walsh, Jessie L. Krienert, and Samantha McAdams17: The Relationship Between Empathy and Prison Bullying in a Sample of Croatian PrisonersIvana Sekol, Tihomir Vidranski and Darrick JolliffePart IV: Conclusions18: Empathy and offending, aggression and bullying: Taking Stock and Moving ForwardDarrick Jolliffe and David P. FarringtonIndex

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