Quantitative Methods in Criminology
David Weisburd, Shawn Bushway, Gerald Mars (Editor), David NelkenBooks.org participates in affiliate programs including Bookshop.org and the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.
Overview
This informative reference volume features the key papers in the growing field of quantitative criminology. The papers provide examples of the importation of statistical methods from other fields to criminology, the adaptation of such methods to special criminological problems through introspection, and the development of new innovative statistical approaches. The volume illustrates the growing sophistication and maturation of quantitative methods in this field.Divided into five parts: research design, sampling, issues in measurement, descriptive analysis and causal analysis, it will be of interest to anyone concerned with criminology and criminal justice, as well as those with specialized interests in quantitative methods.
Contents: Research Design And Study Outcomes: David Weisburd, Cynthia Lum and Anthony Petrosino (2001), Does research design affect study outcomes in criminal justice?
Mark Lipsey and David Wilson (1993), The efficacy of psychological, educational and behavioral treatment: confirmation from meta-analysis
Lawrence W. Sherman and Richard A. Berk (1984), The specific deterrent effects of arrest for domestic assault
Richard A. Berk, Heather Ladd, Heidi Graziano and Jong-Ho Baek (2003), A randomized experiment testing inmate classification systems. Quantitative Issues In Sampling: Robert Brame and Raymond Paternoster (2003), Missing data problems in criminological research: two case studies
David Weisburd, Anthony Petrosino and Gail Mason (1993), Design sensitivity in criminal justice experiments
Janet L. Lauritsen (1998), The age-crime debate: assessing the limits of longitudinal self-report data
Douglas A. Smith and Raymond Paternoster (1990), Formal processing and future delinquency: deviance amplification as selection artifact. Issues In Measurement: John Kitsuse and Aaron V. Ciciourel (1963), A note on the use of official statistics
Albert D. Biderman and Albert J. Reiss (1967), On exploring the 'dark' figure of crime
Michael Geerken (1994), Rap sheets in criminological research: considerations and caveats
Julie Horney and Ineke Haen Marshall (1991), An experimental comparison of two self-report methods for measuring Lambda
David Farrington, Rolf Loeber, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, Welmout Van Kammen and Laura Schmidt (1996), Self-reported delinquency and a combined delinquency seriousness scale based on boys, mothers, and teachers: concurrent and predictive validity for African Americans and Caucasians. Descriptive Analysis Of Quantitative Data: Michael Maltz (1998), Visualizing homicide: a research note
David Kennedy, Anthony Braga and Anne Piehl (1998), The (un)known universe: mapping gangs and gang violence in Boston
Arnold Barnett, Alfred Blumstein and David Farrington (1989), A prospective test of a criminal career model
Daniel Nagin and Kenneth Land (1996), Micro-models of criminal careers: a synthesis of the criminal careers and life course approaches via semiparametric mixed Poisson Models with empirical applications
David Weisburd, Shawn D. Bushway, Cynthia Lum and Sue-Ming Yang (2004), Trajectories of crime at places: a longitudinal study of street segments in the City of Seattle
Shawn D. Bushway, Terrence Thornberry and Marvin Krohn (2003), Desistance as a developmental process: a comparison of static and dynamic approaches. Causal Modeling: Ian Ayres and Steven D. Levitt (1998), Measuring positive externalities from unobservable victim precaution: an empirical analysis of Lojack
David McDowall, Colin Loftin and Brian Wiersema (1992), A comparative study of the preventive effects of the mandatory sentencing laws for gun crimes
David F. Greenberg (2001), Time series analysis of crime rates
D. Wayne Osgood (2000), Poisson-based regression analysis of aggregate crime rates
Index.
Author Biography: Shawn Bushway is from the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, USA. David Weisburd is from the Institute of Criminology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, USA.
Synopsis
In their selection of materials for this reader on quantitative criminology, the editors (both of the U. of Maryland) were motivated to demonstrate the importation of techniques from other fields, introspection with regard to their application to specific criminological problems, and innovation in the development of new methodological and statistical approaches. They present 23 journal reprints (originally published between 1963 and 2004) in sections that deal with research design and study outcomes, quantitative issues in sampling, issues in measurement, descriptive analysis of quantitative data, and causal modeling. Specific topics include deterrent effects of arrest for domestic assault; the affect of research design on study outcomes; case studies of missing data problems in criminological research; issues in the uses of official statistics; assessing the limits of longitudinal self-report data in the "Age-Crime Debate"; mapping gangs and gang violence in Boston; synthesis of criminal careers and life course approaches via semiparametric mixed Poisson regression model and its empirical applications; longitudinal study of trajectories of crime at street segments in Seattle; and comparative study of the preventive effects of mandatory sentencing laws for gun crimes. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR