Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toward a unified approach to crime and its explanation
- 1 A systemic perspective on crime
- 2 How does community context matter? Social mechanisms and the explanation of crime rates
- 3 Individuals, settings, and acts of crime: situational mechanisms and the explanation of crime
- 4 Evidence from behavioral genetics for environmental contributions to antisocial conduct
- 5 A three-dimensional, cumulative developmental model of serious delinquency
- 6 Self-control and social control of deviant behavior in context: development and interactions along the life course
- 7 Desistance, social bonds, and human agency: a theoretical exploration
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toward a unified approach to crime and its explanation
- 1 A systemic perspective on crime
- 2 How does community context matter? Social mechanisms and the explanation of crime rates
- 3 Individuals, settings, and acts of crime: situational mechanisms and the explanation of crime
- 4 Evidence from behavioral genetics for environmental contributions to antisocial conduct
- 5 A three-dimensional, cumulative developmental model of serious delinquency
- 6 Self-control and social control of deviant behavior in context: development and interactions along the life course
- 7 Desistance, social bonds, and human agency: a theoretical exploration
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Explanation of CrimeContext, Mechanisms and Development, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006