handbook of crime correlates

ISBN-13: 9780123736123 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 252 str.

Lee Ellis; Professor Kevin M. Beaver; John Wright

Opis

Over the past two centuries, many aspects of criminal behavior have been investigated. Finding this information and making sense of it all is difficult when many studies would appear to offer contradictory findings. The Handbook of Crime Correlates collects in one source the summary analysis of crime research worldwide. It provides over 400 tables that divide crime research into nine broad categories:

• Pervasiveness and intra-offending relationships
• Demographic factors
• Ecological and macroeconomic factors
• Family and peer factors
• Institutional factors
• Behavioral and personality factors
• Cognitive factors
• Biological factors
• Crime victimization and fear of crime

Within these broad categories, tables identify regions of the world and how separate variables are or are not positively or negatively associated with criminal behavior. Criminal behavior is broken down into separate offending categories of violent crime, property crime, drug offenses, sex offenses, delinquency, general and adult offenses, and recidivism. Accompanying each table is a description of what each table indicates in terms of the positive or negative association of specific variables with specific types of crime by region. This book should serve as a valuable resource for criminal justice personnel and academics in the social and life sciences interested in criminal behavior.

Recenzje

"If you teach security management courses, criminal justice, or criminology classes this title will prove a useful and fact-filled book for you. The text doesn't use statistics to explain away crime, it simply gives readers and researchers who are trying to verify certain factors a place to start. A major benefit to dedicated users of this text is the inclusion of a companion CD. This makes it easier to search, review, and print out the stats and tables."-- Security Management

Spis treści

Preface

Chapter 1

Pervasiveness and Intra-Offending Relationships

Chapter 2

Demographic Factors

Chapter 3

Ecological and Macro-Economic Factors

Chapter 4

Family and Peer Factors

Chapter 5

Institutional Factors

Chapter 6

Behavioral and Personality Factors

Chapter 7

Cognitive Factors

Chapter 8

Biological Factors

Chapter 9

Crime Victimization and Fear of Crime

Chapter 10

Grand Summary

References and all tabular materials can be found at our website: http://booksite.elsevier.com/Ellis/

O autorze

Ellis, LeeLee Ellis earned his PhD from Florida State University in 1982. For most of his teaching career, he was professor of sociology at Minot State University in North Dakota. After retiring from MSU in 2008, Dr. Ellis accepted a two-year visiting professorship at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he conducted research. Now semi-retired, he continues conducting research and authoring articles and books including Handbook of Crime Correlates and Handbook of Social Status Correlates.