
Handbook of Crime Correlates
Academic Press
Published on 7. May 2009
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-12-373612-3 (ISBN)
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Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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 ManagementMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Target group
College/higher education
The book should serve as a valuable resource guide for many social and behavioral scientists with interests in criminology as well as by their graduate students. Among the researchers who are likely to have the greatest interest will be criminologists and other criminal justice personnel. Most academic libraries should also find this book important to shelve as a basic reference
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 216 mm
Weight
1110 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-373612-3 (9780123736123)
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Persons
Lee 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.
Author
Consulting Research Author, California, USA
Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
University of Cincinnati, OH, USA
Content
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/
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/