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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lee Ellis (Consulting Research Author, California, USA) , Kevin M. Beaver (Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA) , John Wright (University of Cincinnati, OH, USA)Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc Imprint: Academic Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 27.60cm Weight: 1.110kg ISBN: 9780123736123ISBN 10: 0123736129 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 07 May 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Replaced By: 9780128044179 Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock ![]() Table of ContentsPreface 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/ReviewsIf 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 (Septermber 2010) <p> 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 (Septermber 2010) """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" Author InformationLee 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |