Handbook of Crime Correlates (eBook)

Kevin M. Beaver, Lee Ellis, John Wright (Autoren)

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2009 | 1. Auflage
264 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-092009-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Handbook of CrimeCorrelates 4
Copyright 5
Contents 6
Preface 12
Acknowledgements 16
Chapter 1 Pervasiveness and Intra- Offending Relationships 18
1.1 Pervasiveness 18
1.2 Intra-offending relationships 20
Chapter 2 Demographic Correlates 28
2.1 Gender/sex 28
2.2 Age and maturation 34
2.3 Race/ethnicity and immigrant status 37
2.4 Individual social status 49
2.5 Parental social status 54
Chapter 3 Ecological and Macro- Economic Factors 58
3.1 Demographic ecological factors 59
3.2 Drug-related and weapons-related ecological factors 62
3.3 Family-based ecological factors 64
3.4 Physical, social and health-related ecological factors 65
3.5 Religious ecological factors 76
3.6 Socioeconomic ecological factors 77
3.7 Other ecological factors 82
Chapter 4 Family and Peer Factors 86
4.1 Family formation 86
4.2 Reproductive factors 88
4.3 Intra-family comparisons 92
4.4Intra-familial factors 101
4.5 Parenting practices 105
4.6 Involvement with peers 114
Chapter 5 Institutional Factors 120
5.1 School Factors 120
5.2 Work Factors 122
5.3 Religious Factors 125
5.4 Other Institutional Factors 132
Chapter 6 Personality and Behavioral Factors 134
6.1 Personality/Temperament Traits 134
6.2 Alcohol and Drug Use 146
6.3 Sexual Behavior 150
6.4 Other Behavior Tendencies 152
Chapter 7 Cognitive Factors 156
7.1 Attitudes 156
7.2 Intelligence and learning ability 167
7.3 Mental illness 179
7.4 Mental disorder 184
7.5 Drug addiction/dependence 191
Chapter 8 Biological Factors 196
8.1 Genetic factors 197
8.2 Birth and development factors 201
8.3 Health factors 205
8.4 Physiology and morphology 210
8.5 Cellular receptors, transporters, and binding sites 215
8.6 Biochemical factors (except hormones) 217
8.7 Hormones or near-hormones 223
8.8 Other chemicals 232
8.9 Neurological factors 232
8.10 Other biological or behavioral factors 238
Chapter 9 Crime Victimization and Fear of Crime 240
9.1 Crime victimization 240
9.2 Fear of crime 247
Chapter 10 Grand Summary 250
10.1 Grand tables 250
10.2 Closing comments 261
Index 264

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.5.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Zivilverfahrensrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-08-092009-8 / 0080920098
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-092009-2 / 9780080920092