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Official statistics are one of the most important sources of knowledge about crime and the criminal justice system. Yet, little is known about the inner workings of the institutions that produce these numbers. In this groundbreaking study, Kevin D. Haggerty sheds light on the process involved in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Haggerty, Kevin D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics.
Centre canadien de la statistique juridique.
Criminal statistics > Canada.
Statistiques criminelles > Canada.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Criminal statistics.
Canada.
Electronic books.
e-books.
Livres numériques.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics: The Organization and Critique of Crime Statistics
  • 2 Numerical Governance and Knowledge Networks
  • 3 Networks and Numbers: The Institutional Production of Crime Data
  • 4 Counting Race: The Politics of a Contentious Classification
  • 5 Politics and Numbers
  • 6 From Private Facts to Public Knowledge: Authorship and the Media in Communicating Statistical Facts
  • Conclusion: Statistics, Governance, and Rationality
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Y.

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