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Measurement Issues in Criminology

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Kimberly L. Kempf

    1. Department of Administration of Justice, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, USA

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. The Role of Theory in Scientific Research

    • Thomas J. Bernard, R. Richard Ritti
    Pages 1-20

  3. Sources of Data

    • Patrick G. Jackson
    Pages 21-50

  4. Prevalence, Incidence, Rates, and Other Descriptive Measures

    • Paul E. Tracy Jr.
    Pages 51-77

  5. Ethical Obligations and Social Research

    • Sandra Wexler
    Pages 78-107

  6. Natural Experiments in Criminal Justice

    • Jeffrey A. Fagan
    Pages 108-137

  7. Exploring the Offender’s Perspective: Observing and Interviewing Criminals

    • Richard Wright, Trevor Bennett
    Pages 138-151

  8. Longitudinal Research Designs

    • Elizabeth Piper Deschenes
    Pages 152-166

  9. Issues in Legal-Impact Research

    • Julie Horney, Cassia Spohn
    Pages 167-197

  10. Time Series, Panel Design, and Criminal Justice: A Multi-State, Multi-Wave Design

    • Carol W. Kohfeld, Scott H. Decker
    Pages 198-240

  11. Assessing the Potential of Secondary Data Analysis: A New Look at the Gluecks’ Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency Data

    • John H. Laub, Robert J. Sampson, Kenna Kiger
    Pages 241-257

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 258-275
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Administration of Justice, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, USA

    Kimberly L. Kempf

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Measurement Issues in Criminology

  • Editors: Kimberly L. Kempf

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9009-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-97260-2Published: 24 August 1990

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-9009-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 275

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Psychology, general

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