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This work provides clear application of a new statistical modeling technique that can be used to recognize patterns in victimization and prevent repeat victimization. The history of crime prevention techniques range from offender-based, to environment/situation-based, to victim-based. The authors of this work have found more accurate ways to predict and prevent victimization using a statistical modeling, based around crime concentration and sub-group profiling with regard to crime vulnerability levels, to predict areas and individuals vulnerable to crime. Following from this prediction, they propose policing strategies to improve crime prevention based on these predictions. With a combination of immediate actions and longer-term research recommendations, this work will be of interest to researchers and policy makers in focused on crime prevention, police studies, victimology and statistical applications. -- Provided by publisher.

1. Crime and evolution : strange companions? -- 2. People who need people? -- 3. Theory of mind, empathy and criminal behaviour -- 4. The sense of fairness and the emergence of criminal justice -- 5. Violence -- 6. Crime : it's a man thing? -- 7. Beyond the proximal : evolution, environments and criminal behaviour -- 8. The ultimate mystery of inheritance -- 9. So what?

Suggests that instead of hiding behind artificial props, or seeking easy solutions, social service managers should try and set the agenda themselves, rather than letting others define it for them. (JLN)

1. Introduction : what has evolution got to do with terrorism? / Max Taylor, Jason Roach and Ken Pease -- 2. Evolutionary psychology, terrorism and terrorist behaviour / Max Taylor -- 3. Evolutionary psychological influences on the contemporary causes of terrorist events / Paul Ekblom, Aiden Sidebottom and Richard Wortley -- 4. Terrorism : lessons from natural and human co-evolutionary arms races / Paul Ekblom -- 5. Why terrorism terrifies us / Jordan Kiper and Richard Sosis -- 6. Terrorism as an act-in-context : a contextual behavioral science account / Akihiko Masuda, Matthew R. Donati, L. Ward Schaefer and Mary L. Hill -- 7. Terrorism as altruism : an evolutionary model for understanding terrorist psychology / Rick O'Gorman and Andrew Silke -- 8. Terrorism's footprint of fear / Jason Roach, Ken Pease, and Charlotte Sanson.

This book explores the evolutionary context of terrorism and political violence. While evolutionary thinking has come to permeate both biological and social-science theorising, it has not yet been applied systematically to the areas of terrorism and political violence. This volume seeks to do this for the first time. It presents a collection of essays on evolutionary psychology and terrorism, which encourage the reader to approach terrorism from a non-traditional perspective, by developing new approaches to understanding it and those who commit such acts of violence. The book identifies evolut.