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Criminology : a global perspective

Author: Lee Ellis; Anthony Walsh
Publisher: Boston : Allyn and Bacon, ©2000.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Lee Ellis; Anthony Walsh
ISBN: 0205187080 9780205187089
OCLC Number: 42733603
Description: xxii, 666 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Part 1 The nature of criminal/antisocial behavior and the discipline that studies it --
Introduction : the nature of criminal and antisocial behavior --
The origins of criminal law and options for measuring criminal behavior --
Crime over time and space --
Criminological theorizing : popular and historical underpinnings --
Part 2 Correlates of crime --
Demographic correlates of crime and crime victimization --
Ecological and macroeconomic correlates of crime --
Family, school, peer, religion, and work-related correlates of crime --
Behavioral and cognitive correlates of crime --
Biological correlates of crime --
Part 3 Theories of criminal/antisocial behavior --
Cognitive and early child development environmental theories --
social environmental and subcultural theories --
Macroenvironmental theories --
Neurologically specific biosocial theories --
Evolutionary biosocial theories --
Synthesized theories --
Part 4 Specific crimes --
Multiple murder and terrorism --
White-collar and organized crime --
Sex offenses and offenders --
Appendix Crime, the law, and the criminal justice system.
Responsibility: Lee Ellis, Anthony Walsh.
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