Handbook of Crime Correlates

by Lee Ellis, David P. Farrington, Anthony W. Hoskin

Overview

The Handbook of Crime Correlates, Second Edition summarizes more than a century of worldwide research on traits and social conditions associated with criminality and antisocial behavior. Findings are provided in tabular form, enabling readers to determine at a glance the nature of each association. Within each table, results are listed by country, type of crime (or other forms of antisocial behavior), and whether each variable is positively, negatively, or insignificantly associated with offending behavior. Criminal behavior is broken down according to major categories, including violent crime, property crime, drug offenses, sex offenses, delinquency, and recidivism. This book provides a resource for practitioners and academics who are interested in criminal and antisocial behavior. It is relevant to the fields of criminology/criminal justice, sociology, and psychology. No other publication provides as much information about how a wide range of variables—e.g., gender, religion, personality traits, weapons access, alcohol and drug use, social status, geography, and seasonality—correlate with offending behavior. - Includes 600+ tables regarding variables related to criminal behavior - Consolidates 100+ years of academic research on criminal behavior - Findings are identified by country and world regions for easy comparison - Lists criminal-related behaviors according to major categories - Identifies universal crime correlates

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128044773
Publisher:	Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date:	06/04/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	730
File size:	122 MB
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About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

1. The Prevalence of Offending and Associations Between Different Types of Offending2. Demographic Factors3. Institutional Factors4. Familial, Reproductive, and Peer Factors5. Personality and Behavioral Factors6. Cognitive and Mental Health Factors7. Biological Factors8. Crime Victimization and Fear of Crime9. Epilogue: Grand Summary

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From the Publisher

A valuable resource for criminal justice personnel and academics in the social and life sciences interested in criminal behavior.

Editorial Reviews

"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

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