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Review title: Reductionist Account of Criminal Behavior
Product review: The criminal is all to blame for his learned behavior, and only the criminal. External influences (whether sociological or physiological) are shunned with extreme prejudice in this reductionistic account of how criminals think. What the book greatly neglects, however, is -why- criminals think that way, and the environmental causes (which are often just swept under the rug, dismissed as "excuses" for the criminal behavior.)The book was authored in 1984, and Dr. Samenow has since admitted that the theraputic, psychological applications of cognitive change programs have been disappointing, as he said of success in changing criminals: "in a minority of cases that occurs."But the book does give fresh insight into the more modern applications of coercive persuasion -- and social control of the criminal population in particular -- through blame-the-victim style propaganda, all wrapped in the cunning package of "responsibility" and "self-accountability."
