Ellis, Hyacinthe
Identifying Crime Correlates in a Developing Society

A Study of Socio-economic and Socio-demographic Contributions to Crime in Jamaica, 1950-1984.

Aware that special features of Third World crime such as underdevelopment and Dependency are largely ignored in Criminological Literature, the author has adopted a structuralist framework for the explanation of socio-economic, socio-demographic and crime linkages observed during more than three decades of crime increase in Jamaica. Identifying Crime Correlates follows simple but rigorously applied statistical procedures which are relevant in situations where data based on official record-keeping are assumed to lack sophistication. Conclusions challenge the general applicability of criminological theories developed for advanced societies. XVIII,289 Seiten mit Abb., gebunden (Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XI: Pädagogik; Band 54/Peter Lang Verlag 1991) Mängelexemplar/near mint