Quantitative Methods in Criminology,9780754624462

Quantitative Methods in Criminology

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ISBN13: 9780754624462
ISBN10: 0754624463
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-08-28
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

This informative reference volume features the key papers in the growing field of quantitative criminology. 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Series Preface xiii
Introduction xv
PART I RESEARCH DESIGN AND STUDY OUTCOMES
`The Specific Deterrent Effects of Arrest for Domestic Assault', American Sociological Review, 49, pp. 261-72.
3(12)
Lawrence W. Sherman
Richard A. Berk
`A Randomized Experiment Testing Inmate Classification Systems', Criminology and Public Policy, 2, pp. 215--42.
15(28)
Richard A. Berk
Heather Ladd
Heidi Graziano
Jong-Ho Baek
`Does Research Design Affect Study Outcomes in Criminal Justice?', Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 578, pp. 50--70.
43(22)
David Weisburd
Cynthia M. Lum
Anthony Petrosino
`The Efficacy of Psychological, Educational, and Behavioral Treatment: Confirmation from Meta-Analysis', American Psychologist, 48, pp. 1181--209.
65(32)
Mark W. Lipsey
David B. Wilson
PART II QUANTITATIVE ISSUES IN SAMPLING
`Missing Data Problems in Criminological Research: Two Case Studies', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 19, pp. 55--78.
97(24)
Robert Brame
Raymond Paternoster
`Design Sensitivity in Criminal Justice Experiments', Crime and Justice, 17, pp. 337--79
121(44)
David Weisburd
Anthony Petrosino
Gail Mason
`Formal Processing and Future Delinquency: Deviance Amplification as Selection Artifact', Law and Society Review, 24, pp. 1109--131.
165(26)
Douglas A. Smith
Raymond Paternoster
PART III ISSUES IN MEASUREMENT
`A Note on the Uses of Official Statistics', Social Problems, 11, pp. 131--39.
191(10)
John I. Kitsuse
Aaron V. Cicourel
`On Exploring the ``Dark Figure'' of Crime', Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 374, pp. 1--15.
201(16)
Albert D. Biderman
Albert J. Reiss Jr
`Rap Sheets in Criminological Research: Considerations and Caveats', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 10, pp. 3--21.
217(20)
Michael R. Geerken
`An Experimental Comparison of Two Self-Report Methods for Measuring Lambda', Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 29, pp. 102--21.
237(20)
Julie Horney
Ineke Haen Marshall
`The Age-Crime Debate: Assessing the Limits of Longitudinal Self-Report Data', Social Forces, 77, pp. 127--54.
257(28)
Janet L. Lauritsen
`Self-reported Delinquency and a Combined Delinquency Seriousness Scale Based on Boys, Mothers, and Teachers: Concurrent and Predictive Validity for African-Americans and Caucasians', Criminology, 34, pp. 493--517.
285(28)
David P. Farrington
Rolf Loeber
Magda Stouthamer-Loeber
Welmoet B. van Kammen
Laura Schmidt
PART IV DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF QUANTITATIVE DATA
`Visualizing Homicide: A Research Note', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 14, pp. 397--410.
313(14)
Michael D. Maltz
`The (Un)known Universe: Mapping Gangs and Gang Violence in Boston', in Crime Mapping and Crime Prevention, D. Weisburd and T. McEwen (eds), Crime Prevention Studies, 7, pp. 219--62.
327(44)
David M. Kennedy
Anthony A. Braga
Anne M. Piehl
`A Prospective Test of a Criminal Career Model', Criminology, 27, pp. 373--88.
371(16)
Arnold Barnett
Alfred Blumstein
David P. Farrington
`Micro-Models of Criminal Careers: A Synthesis of the Criminal Careers and Life Course Approaches via Semiparametric Mixed Poisson Regression Models, with Empirical Applications', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 12, pp. 163--91.
387(30)
Kenneth C. Land
Daniel S. Nagin
`Desistance as a Developmental Process: A Comparison of Static and Dynamic Approaches', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 19, pp. 129--53.
417(26)
Shawn D. Bushway
Terence P. Thornberry
Marvin D. Krohn
`Trajectories of Crime at Places: A Longitudinal Study of Street Segments in the City of Seattle', Criminology, 42, pp. 283--321.
443(42)
David Weisburd
Shawn Bushway
Cynthia Lum
Sue-Ming Yang
PART V CAUSAL MODELLING
`Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 113, pp. 43--77.
485(36)
Ian Ayres
Steven D. Levitt
`A Comparative Study of the Preventive Effects of Mandatory Sentencing Laws for Gun Crimes', Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 83, pp. 378--94.
521(18)
David McDowall
Colin Loftin
Brian Wiersema
`Time Series Analysis of Crime Rates', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 17, pp. 291--327.
539(38)
David F. Greenberg
`Poisson-Based Regression Analysis of Aggregate Crime Rates', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 16, pp. 21--43.
577(24)
D. Wayne Osgood
Name Index 601

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