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The Criminal Personality: The Change Process (Volume II)

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I have used telling the criminal who he is and how he thinks often in my work. This alone gets their attention. To be so accurate about their thinking and reasoning has won hands down their interest and willingness to participate in the change process. They can't imagine you know already what really happens in their day to day thinking. To me this is the reference work I go back to time and again especially with difficult clients that have failed all other attempts at change. This book gave me the tools to work with the most hardened cases. If you don't understand the change process how can you guide them through it. Its most useful feature is the cases that are presented and the methods used to create change in thinking and action. If I had to choose which to buy it would be this one as it has taught me not only about the criminal mind but how it can be changed.

This is a great book! The author breaks the criminal down into parts such as what a criminal thinks about people, in general, what needs to take place within the criminal in order to change, and how they view the world. I was somewhat surprised the author views criminal behavor as a choice, not due to poverty, a fatherless home, or any of the usual reasons cited for a child becoming a criminal later in life. The author is a psychologist, but communicates logical concepts in language that is easy to understand by the layperson.

I appreciate the detailed information in this book. I believe it is a good reference book for prison treatment staff. However, It is based on its own treatment program, and during the narration of its program, the information tend to repeats itself and becomes tedious. In all, I think it is informative.

This is a great book! The author breaks the criminal down into parts such as what a criminal thinks about people, in general, what needs to take place within the criminal in order to change, and how they view the world. I was somewhat surprised the author views criminal behavor as a choice, not due to poverty, a fatherless home, or any of the usual reasons cited for a child becoming a criminal later in life. The author is a psychologist, but communicates logical concepts in language that is easy to understand by the layperson.