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Criminology: A Global Perspective is an excellent teaching tool, explicitly written to provide the broadest coverage of any criminology text available, including research examples from around the world. The discussions acquaint students with numerous correlates of crime including: demographics, ecology, macroeconomics, family, institutions, behavioral and mental health, and biology. Understanding of these correlates is then used extensively to assess the merit and shortcomings of each criminological theory. Careful attention is given not only to traditional criminological theories, but also to more recent theories that hypothesize on the involvement of brain functioning patterns and evolutionary factors as causes of criminal behavior. This text covers criminal and delinquent behavior as well as clinical forms of antisocial behavior.

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• All chapters conclude with Summary, Suggested Readings, and Exercises
• I The Nature Of Criminal/Antisocial Behavior And The Discipline That Studies It
• 1 Introduction: The Nature of Criminal/Antisocial Behavior
• Criminality as a Continuous Variable
• The Nature of Crime and Criminality
• The Moving Target versus the Stationary Core Concepts of Crime
• The Three Dimensions of Criminality
• Why the Crime Concept Is Broader Than the Core Offenses
• The Concept of Delinquency and the Felony-Misdemeanor Distinction
• The Pro/Antisocial Continuum and the Concept of Antisocial behavior
• 2 The Origins of Criminal Law and Options for Measuring Criminal Behavior
• The Origins of Criminal Law
• The Ultimate Source of Criminal Statutes
• Categorizing and Measuring Criminal behavior
• 3 Crime over Time and Space
• Problems Comparing Crime
• Crime Rate Calculations
• Centuries of Official Crime
• Official Crime in North America
• Victimization Data
• Self-Reported Offending
• Crime in Preliterate Societies
• Closing Thoughts on Geographic Variations and Trends in Crime Rates
• 4 Criminological Theorizing: Popular and Historic Underpinnings
• Surveying People's Opinions on the Causes of Crime
• A Brief History of Criminological Theory
• II Correlates Of Crime
• What Is a Correlate of Crime?
• Criteria Used in Assessing Correlates of Crime
• Organization and Layout of the Evidence
• What Chapters 5 through 9 Will Not Do
• Variables to Be Covered in Each of the Correlates of Crime Chapters
• 5 Demographic Correlates of Crime and Crime Victimization
• Demographic Correlates of Crime
• Demographics of Crime Victimization and Fear-of-Crime
• 6 Ecological and Macroeconomic Correlates of Crime
• The Nature of Ecological Variables
• How Ecological Studies Are Conducted
• Social Ecological Variables
• Regional Economic Variables
• Physical/Temporal Ecological Factors
• Closing Comments on Ecological and Macroeconomic Correlates
• 7 Family, School, Peer, Religion, and Work-Related Correlates of Crime
• Family-Based Correlates
• Family Traits
• School-Related Variables
• Peer Associations
• Religiosity
• Work-Related Factors
• A Closing Note
• 8 Behavioral and Cognitive Correlates of Crime
• General Behavioral Correlates
• Specific Behavioral Correlates
• Academic Performance and Intelligence Correlates
• Mental Disorder Correlates
• Mental Illness Correlates
• Attitudinal Correlates
• Morality and Related Attitudinal Correlates
• Underlying Behavioral Dimensions of Offending Behaviors
• Some Closing Thoughts
• 9 Biological Correlates of Crime
• Perinatal Correlates
• Health Factors
• Morphological Factors
• Physiological Correlates
• Biochemical Correlates
• Neurotransmitters
• Miscellaneous Biological Factors
• Closing Thoughts on Biological Correlates
• III Theories Of Criminal/Antisocial Behavior
• Theories, Facts, and How They Are Related
• Criteria for Judging the Value of a Scientific Theory
• Organization of the Chapters Comprising Part III
• 10 Cognitive and Early Child Development Environmental Theories
• Moral Maturation Theory: Developing a Strong Moral Sense Can Inhibit Crim