... facilitate more effective targeting of treatment. This study aims to address these gaps in the extant literature by examining TBI as a predictor of violent offending and test for mediation effects through cognitive constructs of dual systems imbalance and hostility among a sample of justice-involved youth...

...David W. Gavel; Jon T. Mandracchia Purpose Criminogenic thinking refers to patterns of specific cognitive events associated with criminal behavior that facilitate the development and maintenance of patterned criminal behavior. Relatively little is known about the specific processes involved...

...Ashling Bourke; Daniel Boduszek; Philip Hyland Purpose The aim of the current study is to investigate criminal psycho‐social cognition, criminal associates and personality traits as predictors of non‐violent recidivism. Design/methodology/approach The sample consisted of 179 male non‐violent...

...Andrea Gauci; Clive R. Hollin Purpose Social cognition is a prominent feature of explanations of crime, particularly violent crime. This paper aims to report a study that compared several aspects of the social cognition of convicted violent and non‐violent offenders. Design/methodology/approach...