Books by Samuel Yochelson

Studing the criminal mind, this book describes an intensive therapeutic approach designed to change the criminals way of thinking. It rejects traditional treatment approaches as reinforcing of the criminals sense of being a victim of society, and stresses that the criminal must make a choice to give up criminal thinking and learn morality.

The Criminal Personality presents a detailed description of criminal thinking and action patterns and convincingly argues that these patterns cannot be explained by sociologic or psychologic explanations alone.

A text on drug-user thinking. It attributes crime to a series of early irresponsible choices that predate drug use among drug-using criminals.