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 behaviorConsolidates 200 years of academic research on criminal behaviorPositions findings by world region for easy comparisonBreaks down criminal behavior by 9 offending categories INDICE: 1. Pervasiveness and Intra-Offending Relationships 2. Demographic Factors 3. Ecological and Macro-Economic Factors 4. Family and Peer Factors 5. Institutional Factors 6. Behavioral and Personality Factors 7. Cognitive and Mental Health Factors 8. Biological Factors 9. Crime Victimization and Fear of Crime 10. Grand Summary
- ISBN: 978-0-12-804417-9
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 450
- Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2019
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés