Straight Talk About Criminals: Understanding and Treating Antisocial Individuals

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Summary: Been there, done that
Review: Rehash of Inside the Criminal Mind with an obsessive bent on saying it's NOT the fault of the family or society that a criminal has developed. Then Samenow goes on to explain how family and society can prevent the development of an antisocial personality! He then explains how his methods of rehabilitation are the only methods that work. Seems to me if rehab can be accomplished by society, then prevention can also be accomplished by society. Samenow has trouble not contradicting himself over and over. As this book is but a poor restatement of his earlier book, skip this one and get Inside the Criminal Mind instead. Pat Brown/Director/Investigative Criminal Profiler/The Sexual Homicide Exchange, Inc.

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Summary: Stanton Samenow Knows His Stuff!
Review: The author is clearly not a "warm an nurturing" sort of therapist. He is, however, an expert at describing the many ways in which the criminal mind works. He's a master at his craft and ought to be paid close attention to. Although he and the maverick criminologist, Lonnie Athens (author of The Creation of Dangerous Criminals and Violent Criminal Acts and Actors: Revisited) take different views regarding the complexities of criminal behavior (violence, in particular), I personally believe their perspectives are otherwise, however, are surprisingly compatable in many, many ways.

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Summary: Stanton Samenow Knows His Stuff!
Review: The author is clearly not a "warm an nurturing" sort of therapist. He is, however, an expert at describing the many ways in which the criminal mind works. He's a master at his craft and ought to be paid close attention to. Although he and the maverick criminologist, Lonnie Athens (author of The Creation of Dangerous Criminals and Violent Criminal Acts and Actors: Revisited) take different views regarding the complexities of criminal behavior (violence, in particular), I personally believe their perspectives are otherwise, however, are surprisingly compatable in many, many ways.

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Summary: Not the best introduction....
Review: to Dr. Samenow's work. The reader would be better to forego this until reading Inside the Criminal Mind. Dr. Samenow has collected questions from lectures over the years from the audience and compiled them into a topical format. This book is somewhat of a rehash of earlier works, but the topical format makes it a good quick reference to his ideas on various aspects of criminality. I recommend this as a companion to Inside the Criminal Mind as well as The Criminal Personality to all who are working in evaluation and treatment of criminals.