Measurement Issues in Criminology

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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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.

• Criminal Justice
• Criminology
• Delinquency
• Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialisation
• socialisation
• sociology of crime

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

  Kimberly L. Kempf

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