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 basic defect of traditional treatment systems is the persisting concept that criminals think and reason as non-criminals do and that they, therefore, respond similarly to both reasoning and love. Yochelson and Samenow have definitely profiled the characteristics of the errors of criminal thinking, together with their derivatives—feeling and behavior. They show persuasively that because of ingrained and pervasive errors of thinking, criminals live and act in a world with entirely different assumptivebases than those of non-criminals. The authors then proceed to develop a treatment program using a phenomenological process. This exhaustive and painstaking study marks a turning point in the history of efforts to rehabilitate criminals...