ABSTRACT
Empathy versus Offending, Aggression, and Bullying advances knowledge about the measurement of empathy, using the Basic Empathy Scale (BES), and how empathy is related to offending, aggression, and bullying in community and incarcerated groups.
Empathy is widely accepted as one of the most important individual factors that are related to offending, aggression, and bullying, and it is common in many intervention projects to aim to improve empathy in order to reduce offending, aggression, and bullying. The BES was constructed by Jolliffe and Farrington (2006) and has been widely used in a number of countries. This book brings together chapters, from a broad range of contributors, which explore the application of BES in ten different countries (England, Portugal, Spain, Poland, Italy, the Netherlands, Croatia, Australia, Canada, and the USA). Each chapter reviews the use of the BES in that particular jurisdiction, its psychometric properties, and its importance in relation to offending, aggression, and bullying. The research includes samples from primary schools, secondary schools, and the community, as well as those who are justice-involved and on probation, in prisons and secure psychiatric hospitals. The book concludes with wider implications for intervention, policy, and practice.
This book will be valuable reading for students and scholars of criminology, psychology and sociology, as well as practitioners who are interested in developing their understanding of the complex link between empathy and a range of antisocial behaviours.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|52 pages
The Basic Empathy Scale and parenting
chapter 2|19 pages
The Basic Empathy Scale
part II|93 pages
Empathy and offending
part III|82 pages
Aggression and bullying
chapter 14|12 pages
Empathy in Polish and Spanish children and adolescents
chapter 15|11 pages
Risk factors for cyberbullying
chapter 16|13 pages
A retrospective examination of bullying victimisation during high school
part IV|18 pages
Conclusions