ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews some of the material and ideas presented in the book, firstly by providing an overview of the important themes, secondly by reflecting on how they present a challenge to contemporary criminology and thirdly by considering some of the implications of those findings for possible intervention strategies.
Whilst the book sets out the case for the closer integration of psychological perspectives and criminological theory on criminal behaviour, what emerges from this dialogue is a psychosocial perspective that is far more methodologically and theoretically eclectic than conventional psychological approaches. By bringing together models built in the clinical world, work on the intimate world of emotions – for example, on the significance of shame – we are brought back to the significance of the social conditions in which such emotional worlds are embedded.
