Biological Psychological and Environmental Factors in Delinquency and Mental Disorder

This bibliography provides information on the role of biological psychological and environmental explanations of deviant behavior in the development of crime and violence and in the control treatment and rehabilitation of offenders. It contains more than 2200 references to materials on biological psychological and environmental influences on child development; biological physiological and medical factors associated with brain functions and central nervous system disorders; and biological psychological and sociological factors related to mental disorder and crime. An appendix lists hierarchically the subject headings used to classify the bibliographic entries. The index which contains over four hundred subject headings on a wide range of topics links the subject headings in the hierarchical listing to entries in the bibliography proper.