The mismeasure of crime /

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Filled with real world examples derived from media reports on crime trends and other sources, this fully updated Second Edition analyzes the specific errors that can occur in the three most common methods used to report crime--official crime data, self report, and victimization studies. For each met...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mosher, Clayton James
Otros Autores: Miethe, Terance D., Hart, Timothy C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, [2011]
Edición:Second edition.
Temas:
Criminal statistics.
Criminal statistics > United States.
Victims of crimes surveys.
Victims of crimes surveys > United States.
Statistiques criminelles.
Statistiques criminelles > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The pervasiveness (and limitations) of measurement
  • The history of measuring crime
  • Official crime data
  • Self-report studies
  • Victimization surveys
  • Crime patterns, evaluating crime policies, and criminological theories.

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