Why Crime?: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Explaining Criminal Behavior - Softcover

Robinson, Matthew B.; Beaver, Kevin M.

9781594607073: Why Crime?: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Explaining Criminal Behavior

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ISBN 10: 1594607079 ISBN 13: 9781594607073

Publisher: Carolina Academic Pr, 2009

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Why Crime? reviews the very latest empirical evidence with regard to the risk factors that produce antisocial and criminal behavior. The authors meaningfully integrate risk factors identified by more than a dozen academic discplines that increase the odds of antisocial behavior and criminality. The result is a new interdisciplinary theory that helps break down traditional barriers and overcomes the �disciplinary myopia� that plagues criminological theory. Unlike the typical criminological theory text, Why Crime? actually advances the state of criminological theory as well as the field of criminology.

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Matthew Robinson is a professor in the department of government and justice studies at Appalachian State University. Kevin Beaver is a professor of criminology at Florida State University.

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Why Crime? reviews the very latest empirical evidence with regard to the risk factors that produce antisocial and criminal behavior. The authors meaningfully integrate risk factors identified by more than a dozen academic discplines that increase the odds of antisocial behavior and criminality. The result is a new interdisciplinary theory that helps break down traditional barriers and overcomes the disciplinary myopia that plagues criminological theory. Unlike the typical criminological theory text, Why Crime? actually advances the state of criminological theory as well as the field of criminology.

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