Violent crime, violent criminals
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Violent crime, violent criminals
(Sage focus editions, v. 101)
Sage Publications, c1989
- : pbk
Available at 10 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographies
Description and Table of Contents
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
by "Nielsen BookData"