Handbook of Crime Correlates

Handbook of Crime Correlates
ISBN-10
0128044179
ISBN-13
9780128044179
Category
Psychology
Pages
450
Language
English
Published
2019-06-15
Publisher
Academic Press
Authors
Lee Ellis, Anthony W. Hoskin, David Farrington

Description

The Handbook of Crime Correlates, Second Edition gathers over 200 years of worldwide academic research into criminal behavior and consolidates those findings into 400+ tables giving readers the ability to tell, at a glance, their association to criminal behavior. The book offers a window on crime by summarizing what majority findings indicate. Findings are broken down by world region, type of crime, and whether the variable in question has a positive, negative or insignificant association to criminal behavior. Criminal behavior is broken down into categories, including violent crime, property crime, drug offenses, sex offenses, delinquency, general and adult offenses, and recidivism. This book serves as a critical resource for criminal justice personnel and academics in the social and life sciences who are interested in criminal behavior. No other resource consolidates and clearly indicates how a multitude of variables, from gender and religion, to seafood consumption and season, relate to criminal behavior. Includes 400+ tables of correlated variables to criminal behavior Consolidates 200 years of academic research on criminal behavior Positions findings by world region for easy comparison Breaks down criminal behavior by 9 offending categories

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