Overview
- Written for use as a classroom text and suitable as a reference for researchers
- Emphasizes and illustrates how different types of criminal justice research influence the outcome of statistical results
- Uses real-life examples of criminal justice research
- Includes running glossary, chapter summaries, and exercises applicable to the criminal justice field
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This introductory textbook takes a building-block approach that emphasizes the application and interpretation of statistics in research in crime and justice. This text is meant for both students and professionals who want to gain a basic understanding of common statistical methods used in criminology and criminal justice before advancing to more complex statistical analyses in future volumes.
This book emphasizes comprehension and interpretation. As the statistical methods discussed become more complex and demanding to compute, it integrates statistical software. It provides readers with an accessible understanding of popular statistical programs used to examine real-life crime and justice problems (including SPSS, Stata, and R). In addition, the book includes supplemental resources such as a glossary of key terms, practice questions, and sample data.
Basic Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice aims to give students and researchers a core understanding of statistical concepts and methods that will leave them with the confidence and tools to tackle the statistical problems in their own research work.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
David Weisburd is a leading researcher and scholar in criminology and criminal justice. He is Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University in Virginia and Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Weisburd has received many awards and prizes for his contributions to criminology and criminal justice including the Stockholm Prize in
Criminology and the Sutherland and Vollmer Awards from the American Society of Criminology.
Chester Britt was a leading researcher and scholar in the field of criminology. During his career, he taught at a number of universities and led departments at Northeastern University, Arizona State University, and the
University of Iowa. His research addressed theories of criminal behavior and victimization, demography of crime and criminal careers, criminal justice decision-making, and quantitative research methods.
David B. Wilson is a Professorin the Criminology, Law and Society Department at George Mason University in Virginia. He is a social psychologist and leading applied statistician in the field of criminology, and was the
recipient of the Mosteller Award from the Campbell Collaboration for his contributions to the science of systematic review and meta-analysis.
Alese Wooditch is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Temple University. She received her PhD from George Mason University. Professor Wooditch is interested in innovative spatial statistical analyses in the area of criminology and criminal justice experimental and computational criminology, and quantitative methodological issues.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Basic Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Authors: David Weisburd, Chester Britt, David B. Wilson, Alese Wooditch
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47967-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47966-4Published: 24 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47969-5Published: 24 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47967-1Published: 23 February 2021
Edition Number: 5
Number of Pages: XXI, 612
Number of Illustrations: 74 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Previous Edition: Statistics in Criminal Justice, 4th Edition. 1 Volume. 978-1-4614-9169-9
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law