Emma Palmer is a Reader in Forensic Psychology at the University of Leicester. Her research focuses on applying psychology to offending and its prevention, and her most recent book is Offending Behaviour Programmes: Development, application and controversies (Wiley, 2006).

• Introduction  1. Setting the context: theories of offending behaviour  2. Theories of moral reasoning 1: Piaget and Kohlberg  3. Theories of moral reasoning 2: critiques of Kohlberg's theory  4. The measurement of moral reasoning  5. Moral reasoning and offending: theory and research  6. Placing moral reasoning in a wider explanation of offending  7. Interventions: implications for practice 8 What next: the future for research and practice

Emma Palmer is a Reader in Forensic Psychology at the University of Leicester. Her research focuses on applying psychology to offending and its prevention, and her most recent book is Offending Behaviour Programmes: Development, application and controversies (Wiley, 2006).

• Introduction  1. Setting the context: theories of offending behaviour  2. Theories of moral reasoning 1: Piaget and Kohlberg  3. Theories of moral reasoning 2: critiques of Kohlberg's theory  4. The measurement of moral reasoning  5. Moral reasoning and offending: theory and research  6. Placing moral reasoning in a wider explanation of offending  7. Interventions: implications for practice 8 What next: the future for research and practice