Violent Crime, Violent Criminals

• Author(s): Neil Alan Weiner, Marvin Eugene Wolfgang,
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Pages: 237
• ISBN_10: 080393341X
  ISBN_13: 9780803933415
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / Terrorism , Social Science / Criminology , True Crime / General ,

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.