How does meaningful change occur? What is the role of the psychologist in promoting change? These questions drive this incisive retrospective by social psychologist Hans Toch, whose groundbreaking work among police, corrections officers, and inmates has long been centered on simple tenets: treat humans as human, ameliorate environmental harm, and promote democracy by teaching individuals how to stand up and participate in their lives. Filled with amusing anecdotes and the wisdom of experience, this text demonstrates the best that a life in applied psychology has to offer: a commitment not to behavioral theories or institutions, but to people.
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This incisive retrospective by social psychologist Hans Toch surveys the author’s groundbreaking work among police, corrections officers, and inmates, to investigate the psychologist’s role in promoting participatory change.
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Foreword Craig HaneyPreface: Doing PsychologyAcknowledgmentsEmbracing a VocationInitiating a Line of InquiryHeading WestSupporting New CareersPartnering With Police OfficersAddressing Group DynamicsResponding to Inmates in CrisisDemocratizing a PrisonNurturing Responsible BehaviorBuilding a Sense of Advancement Into Long Terms of ConfinementAddressing Confrontation and Promoting De-EscalationPerverting Behaviorism in WisconsinConclusionReferencesIndexAbout the Author
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ISBN
9781433817298
Publisert
2014-03-17
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Vendor
American Psychological Association
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229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
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186

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Biographical note

Hans Toch, PhD, is distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Albany at the State University of New York, where he is affiliated with the School of Criminal Justice. He obtained his PhD in social psychology at Princeton University, has taught at Michigan State University and at Harvard University, and in 1996, served as the Walker-Ames Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle.
 
Dr. Toch is a fellow of both APA and the American Society of Criminology. In 1996, he acted as president of the American Association of Correctional Psychology.
 
He is a recipient of the Hadley Cantril Memorial Award (for Men in Crisis), the August Vollmer Award of the American Society of Criminology for outstanding contributions to applied criminology, the Prix deGreff from the International Society of Criminology for Distinction in Clinical Criminology, and the Research Award of the International Corrections and Prison Association.
 
Dr. Toch's research interests range from mental health problems and the psychology of violence to issues of organizational reform and planned change. His books include The Social Psychology of Social Movements (1965, 2013), Reforming Human Services: Change Through Participation (with J. D. Grant, 1982), Violent Men (1992), Living in Prison (1992), Mosaic of Despair (1992), The Disturbed Violent Offender (with Kenneth Adams, 1994), Police Violence (with William Geller, 1996), Corrections: A Humanistic Approach (1997), Crime and Punishment (with Robert Johnson, 2000), Acting Out (with Kenneth Adams, 2002), Stress in Policing (2002), Police as Problem Solvers (2005), and Cop Watch: Spectators, Social Media, and Police Reform (2012).