Violent crime, violent criminals
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Violent crime, violent criminals
（Sage focus editions, v. 101）
Sage Publications, c1989
- : pbk
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Description
This volume examines the leading issues on the correlates of violent behaviour and its measurement. It presents both summaries of existing work and reports of original research and brings the reader up to date on the status of research on such topics as measuring violent behaviour, individual criminal careers, gender, race and crime, and gang violence. Violent Crime, Violent Criminals represents the state of current knowledge in the study of violence.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Neil Alan Weiner and Marvin E Wolfgang
Measuring Violent Behavior - George S Bridges and Joseph G Weis
Effects of Study Design on Reported Correlates of Violence
Violent Criminal Careers and `Violent Career Criminals' - Neil Alan Weiner
An Overview of the Research Literature
Race and Violent Crime - Lynn A Curtis
Toward A New Policy
Gender and Violent Crime - Rita J Simon and Sandra Baxter
Street Gang Violence - Malcolm W Klein and Cheryl L Maxson
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