The 'Handbook of Quantitative Criminology' is designed to be the authoritative volume on methodological and statistical issues in the criminology/criminal justice field. Like handbooks available in other disciplines (economics, psychology, sociology), this book will be the go-to book for new and advanced methods in the field that will provide overviews of the issues, with examples and figures as warranted, for students, faculty, and researchers alike. Authored byleading scholars in criminology/criminal justice, the Handbook contains 24 chapters on topics in the following key areas: (1) research design, (2) experimental methods, (3) methods for overcoming data limitations, (4) innovative descriptive methods, (5) estimation techniques for theory and policy, (6) topics in multiple regression, and (7) new directions in statistical analysis. Will serve as the 'go-to' book for students, faculty, and researchers alike working in criminology/criminal justice. An important and much needed contribution to the field. Provides comprehensive coverage of the issues, methods, and future directions in quantitative criminology in one collection. INDICE: Foreword by Alfred Blumstein.-Chapter 1. Introduction by David Weisburd and Alex R. Piquero.-Part 1 A. Descriptive Approaches for Research and Policy: Innovative Descriptive Methods for Crime and Justice Problems.-Chapter 2. Geographic mapping of crime by Jerry H. Ratcliffe.-Chapter 3. Visualizing data by Michael D. Maltz.-Chapter 4. Trajectories by Daniel S. Nagin.-Chapter 5. Growth curve models by Hanno Petras.-Chapter 6. Spatial Analysis and Diffusion by George E. Tita.-Chapter 7. Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods by Shadd Maruna.-Part 1B. Descriptive Approaches for Research and Policy: New Estimation Techniques for Assessing Crime and Justice Policy.-Chapter 8. Estimating Costs of Crime by Mark A. Cohen.-Chapter 9. Estimating treatment effects by Thomas A. Laughren and Edward P. Mulvey.-Chapter 10. Meta-analysis by David P. Wilson.-Chapter 11. Network analysis by Jean Marie McGloin and David S. Kirk.-Chapter 12. Systematic Social Observation of Crime and Justice Problems Stephen S. Mastrofski.-Part 2. New Directions in Assessing Design, Measurement and Data Quality.-Chapter 13. Response Effects of Victimization by James P. Lynch and Laura A. Addington.-Chapter 14. Missing data problems by Robert Brame, by Ray Paternoster & Michael G. Turner.-Chapter 15. Life Calendar by Jennifer Roberts and Julie Horney.-Chapter 16. Statistical power by Chester Britt and David Weisburd.->Chapter 17. Reporting Validity by Amanda Perry.-Chapter 18. Data reliability and data comparisons by John Pepper, et al.-Chapter 19. Modeling Change by D. Wayne Osgood.-Part 3A. Estimation of Impacts and Outcomes of Crime and Justice: Topics in Experimental Methods.-Chapter 20. Experiments – experimental criminology by Lawrence W. Sherman.-Chapter 21. Experiments - block/randomized and subgroup by Barak Ariel and Farrington and David P. Farrington.-Chapter 22. Implementation problems in randomized studies by John S. Goldkamp.-Chapter 23. Placed-Based Randomized Trials by Robert Boruch and David Weisburd.-Chapter 24. Longitudinal-Experimental Studies by Brandon C. Welsh, David P. Farrington, and Rolf Loeber.-Chapter 25. Multi-Center Experimental Trials by Faye Taxman.-Part 3B. Estimation of Impacts and Outcomes of Crime and Justice: Innovation in Quasi-Experimental Design.->Chapter 26. Propensity scoresRobert J. Apel and Gary Sweeten.-Chapter 27. Regression discontinuity designsby Richard Berk.-Chapter 28. Factorial Surveys II by M. Lyn Exum and Jeffrey A. Bouffard.-Chapter 29. Instrumental variables Shawn A. Bushway.-Part 3C. Estimation of Impacts and Outcomes of Crime and Justice: Non-Experimental Approaches to Explaining Crime and Justice Outcomes.-Chapter 30. Multilevel modeling by Brian D. Johnson.-Chapter 31. Logit and related extensions by Chester Britt.-Chapter 32. Count models by Pamela K. Lattimore.-Chapter 33. Geographic statistical analysis of crime by Wim Bernasco.-Chapter 34. Data mining Richard Ber.-Chapter 35. Time series by Laura Du
- ISBN: 978-1-4614-1388-2
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- Fecha Publicación: 06/08/2011
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