Crime Human Nature: The Definitive Study of the Causes of Crime
- ISBN-10
- 0684852667
- ISBN-13
- 9780684852669
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 640
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-01
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Authors
- James Q. Wilson, Richard J. Herrnstein
Description
The authors have systematically surveyed the research in wide-reanging fields to assemble new scientific evidence on who commits crime and why.
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