Why Crime?

Download or read book Why Crime? written by Matthew B. Robinson and published by Carolina Academic Press LLC. This book was released on 2019 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book 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 disciplines 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, this book actually advances the state of criminological theory as well as the field of criminology"--