Evolutionary Criminology

Russil Durrant, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington, where he teaches courses in criminal and forensic psychology, and criminological research methods. His research interests include violent offending, the psychology of punishment, and the role of evolutionary explanations in criminology. He is author of Substance Abuse: Cultural and Historical Perspectives (Sage, 2003), and An Introduction to Criminal Psychology (Routledge, 2013). Tony Ward, PhD, DipClinPsyc, is currently professor in clinical psychology and director of clinical training at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has taught clinical and forensic psychology at the universities of Melbourne, Canterbury, and Deakin and is a professorial fellow at the Universities of Birmingham, Kent, Melbourne, and Portsmouth. He has coauthored more than 370 academic publications, and his major research interests include desistance and reintegration processes in offenders, conceptualizations of risk and its management, cognition and evolutionary approaches to crime, and ethical issues in forensic and correctional psychology. He was given the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) 2003 significant achievement award for his research into offence pathways. Professor Ward is the developer of the Good Lives Model and has published numerous books, book chapters, and academic articles on this model since 2002. His recent book, Desistance from sex offending: Alternatives to throwing away the keys (2011, Guilford Press- coauthored with Richard Laws), presents an integration of the GLM with desistance theory and research. He is currently working on a book length project on evolution, agency, and sexual offending.

• 1. Criminology and Evolutionary TheoryPart 1: The Evolutionary Framework2. Evolutionary Theory and Human Evolution3. Evolutionary Behavioral Science 4. Levels of Analysis and Explanations in CriminologyPart 2: Explaining Crime5. The Evolution of Altruism, Cooperation, and Punishment6. Distal Explanations: Adaptations and Phylogeny7. Development8. Proximate Explanations: Individuals, Situations, and Social Processes9. Social Structural and Cultural ExplanationsPart 3: Responding to Crime10.Punishment, Public Policy, and Prevention11.The Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Offenders12.Looking Forward from the Perspective of the Past

"...a great job of summarizing the field of evolutionary psychology in a brief but detailed and accurate fashion, showing how it could be related to the study of crime." --PsycCRITIQUES