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

Table of Contents

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/

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.

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