ABSTRACT
Introduction Howitt (2002) argues that it is probably fair to suggest that forensic and criminal psychology have contributed less by way of theory to criminology than have many other disciplines. Indeed, for much of the twentieth century – certainly its second half – there was something of a rupture between psychology and criminology, the latter becoming increasingly dominated by sociological concerns. This is now beginning to change, in part because there is an increasingly vibrant body of psychological research on crime and anti-social conduct, and also because there are growing numbers of criminologists seeking to build bridges between the
sociological and psychological aspects of the subject (see, for example, Gadd and Jefferson, 2007; Wortley, 2011).
