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: Introduction.- 1). Topics in Research Design.- 2). Experiments - trials.- 3). Experiments - block/randomized and subgroup.- 3). Propensity scores.- 4). Regression discontinuity designs.- 5) Quantitative and Qualitative Data.- 6) Statistical power .- II) Methods for Overcoming Data Limitations.- 7) Data reliability and data comparisons.- 8) Missing data.- III) Innovative Descriptive Methods.- 10) Geographic mapping of crime.- 11) Visualizing data.- 12) Trajectories.- 13) Growth curve models.- IV) Estimation Techniques for Theory and Policy.- 14) Estimating Costs of Crime.- 15) Estimating treatment effects.- 16) Meta-analysis.- V) Topics in Multiple Regression.- 17) Instrumental variables.- 18) Multilevel modeling.- 19) Logic and related extensions.- 20) Countmodels.- VI) New Directions in Statistical Analysis.- 21) Geographic statistical analysis of crime.- 22) Data mining.- 23) Time series.- 24) Network analysis.- Conclusion.
- ISBN: 978-0-387-77649-1
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 650
- Fecha Publicación: 01/12/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés