Measurement Issues In Criminal Justice
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Author | : Beth M. Huebner |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 2016-04-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1118868765 |
This volume of the series was designed to provide a comprehensive primer on the existing best practices and emerging developments in the study and design research on crime and criminology. The work as a whole includes chapters on the measurement of criminal typologies, the offenders, offending and victimization, criminal justice organizations, and specialized measurement techniques. Each chapter is written by experts in the field and they provide an excellent survey of the literature in the relevant area. More importantly, each chapter provides a description of the various methodological and substantive challenges presented in conducting research on these issues and denotes possible solutions to these dilemmas. An emphasis was placed on research that has been conducted outside of the United States and was designed to give the reader a broader more global understanding of the social context of research. The goal of this volume is to provide a definitive reference for professionals in the field, researchers, and students. This volume in the Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice series identifies the principal topical areas of research in this field and summarizes the various methodological and substantive challenges presented in conducting research on these issues. In each chapter, authors provide a summary of the prominent data collection efforts in the topical area, provide an overview of the current methodological work, discuss the challenges in the measurement of central concepts in the subject area, and identify new horizons emerging in data collection and measurement. We encouraged authors to discuss work conducted in an international context and to incorporate discussion of qualitative methodologies when appropriate.
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2002-12-18 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0309168686 |
Most major crime in this country emanates from two major data sources. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports has collected information on crimes known to the police and arrests from local and state jurisdictions throughout the country. The National Crime Victimization Survey, a general population survey designed to cover the extent, nature, and consequences of criminal victimization, has been conducted annually since the early1970s. This workshop was designed to consider similarities and differences in the methodological problems encountered by the survey and criminal justice research communities and what might be the best focus for the research community. In addition to comparing and contrasting the methodological issues associated with self-report surveys and official records, the workshop explored methods for obtaining accurate self-reports on sensitive questions about crime events, estimating crime and victimization in rural counties and townships and developing unbiased prevalence and incidence rates for rate events among population subgroups.
Author | : Kimberly L. Kempf |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1461390095 |
Measurement Issues in Criminology examines the techniques and procedures crucial to successful research. Topics appropriate for specific research designs, data sources, and analytic techniques are identified, as well as topics for which such measurement methods are inappropriate. Subjects explored include ethical obligations and social research, the offender's perspective, longitudinal research design, advantages of time series studies over other procedures when investigating important ques- tions of process and change, and the strength and weakness of studies utilizing secondary data sources.
Author | : Gordon P. Waldo |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1983-11 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Waldo and his colleagues address a problem typical of criminological research: attaining reliability and validity in measuring data obtained under imperfectly controlled conditions. They discuss appropriate operational definitions to use in measuring concepts, the selection of samples, items, and the data collection process -- together with the differing forms of analysis. The book is a copious source of insights into measurement challenges in the social sciences.
Author | : National Institute of Justice (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Criminal justice, Administration of |
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Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2002-12-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780309384568 |
Most major crime in this country emanates from two major data sources. The FBIâ (TM)s Uniform Crime Reports has collected information on crimes known to the police and arrests from local and state jurisdictions throughout the country. The National Crime Victimization Survey, a general population survey designed to cover the extent, nature, and consequences of criminal victimization, has been conducted annually since the early1970s. This workshop was designed to consider similarities and differences in the methodological problems encountered by the survey and criminal justice research communities and what might be the best focus for the research community. In addition to comparing and contrasting the methodological issues associated with self-report surveys and official records, the workshop explored methods for obtaining accurate self-reports on sensitive questions about crime events, estimating crime and victimization in rural counties and townships and developing unbiased prevalence and incidence rates for rate events among population subgroups.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Crime analysis |
ISBN | : |
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2003-01-18 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0309086353 |
Most major crime in this country emanates from two major data sources. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports has collected information on crimes known to the police and arrests from local and state jurisdictions throughout the country. The National Crime Victimization Survey, a general population survey designed to cover the extent, nature, and consequences of criminal victimization, has been conducted annually since the early1970s. This workshop was designed to consider similarities and differences in the methodological problems encountered by the survey and criminal justice research communities and what might be the best focus for the research community. In addition to comparing and contrasting the methodological issues associated with self-report surveys and official records, the workshop explored methods for obtaining accurate self-reports on sensitive questions about crime events, estimating crime and victimization in rural counties and townships and developing unbiased prevalence and incidence rates for rate events among population subgroups.
Author | : Genn Vito |
Publisher | : Charles C Thomas Publisher |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0398085013 |
Designed to assist criminal justice students and practitioners to conduct research on problems and issues facing the criminal justice system. It is based upon the authors' collective experience as researchers and instructors in criminal justice research and policy analysis. The definitions and examples provided in the book will help students and practitioners to both comprehend research articles and reports and to conduct their own research.
Author | : Timothy S. Bynum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Electronic book |
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