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An edition of Crime and human nature (1985)

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Assembling the latest evidence from the fields of sociology, criminology, economics, medicine, biology, and psychology and exploring the effects of such factors as gender, age, race, and family, two eminent social scientists frame a groundbreaking theory of criminal behavior.

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Simon and Schuster
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English
Pages
639

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Subjects
Criminal anthropology, Prediction of Criminal behavior, Criminology, Criminals, Crime, Kriminalanthropologie, Prédiction du comportement criminel, Crime and criminals, Kriminologie, Criminalité, Criminele antropologie, Anthropologie criminelle, Kriminalsoziologie, Criminal behavior, prediction of

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Crime & Human Nature: The Definitive Study of the Causes of Crime
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1986, Simon andSchuster
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Crime and human nature: crime and human nature-television and mass media
1985, Simon and Schuster
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Bibliography: p. 559-612.
Includes index.

CONTENTS:

[Pt.] I. Explaining crime. Crime and its explanation ; A theory of criminal behavior -- [Pt.] II. Constitutional factors. Constitutional factors in criminal behavior ; Gender ; Age ; Intelligence ; Personality and psychopathology -- [Pt.] III. Developmental factors. Families ; Broken and abusive families ; School -- [Pt.] IV. Social context. Community ; Labor markets ; Television and mass media ; Alcohol and heroin ; Altering the social context -- [Pt.] V. History and culture. Historical trends in crime ; Crime across cultures ; Race and crime -- [Pt.] VI. Crime, human nature, and society. Punishment and personal responsibility ; Human nature and political order.

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364.2
Library of Congress
HV6115 .W54 1985

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639 p. :
Number of pages
639

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OL3027906M
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0671541307
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85008371
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13307

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