Quantitative Methods in Criminology

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ISBN: 9780754624462 | 0754624463
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Copyright: 8/28/2005

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This informative reference volume features the key papers in the growing field of quantitative criminology. Divided into five parts: research design, sampling, issues in measurement, descriptive analysis and causal analysis, it will be of interest to anyone concerned with criminology and criminal justice, as well as those with specialized interests in quantitative methods.

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Series Preface

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Introduction

PART I RESEARCH DESIGN AND STUDY OUTCOMES

`The Specific Deterrent Effects of Arrest for Domestic Assault', American Sociological Review, 49, pp. 261-72.

(12)

Lawrence W. Sherman

Richard A. Berk

`A Randomized Experiment Testing Inmate Classification Systems', Criminology and Public Policy, 2, pp. 215--42.

(28)

Richard A. Berk

Heather Ladd

Heidi Graziano

Jong-Ho Baek

`Does Research Design Affect Study Outcomes in Criminal Justice?', Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 578, pp. 50--70.

(22)

David Weisburd

Cynthia M. Lum

Anthony Petrosino

`The Efficacy of Psychological, Educational, and Behavioral Treatment: Confirmation from Meta-Analysis', American Psychologist, 48, pp. 1181--209.

(32)

Mark W. Lipsey

David B. Wilson

PART II QUANTITATIVE ISSUES IN SAMPLING

`Missing Data Problems in Criminological Research: Two Case Studies', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 19, pp. 55--78.

(24)

Robert Brame

Raymond Paternoster

`Design Sensitivity in Criminal Justice Experiments', Crime and Justice, 17, pp. 337--79

121

(44)

David Weisburd

Anthony Petrosino

Gail Mason

`Formal Processing and Future Delinquency: Deviance Amplification as Selection Artifact', Law and Society Review, 24, pp. 1109--131.

165

(26)

Douglas A. Smith

Raymond Paternoster

PART III ISSUES IN MEASUREMENT

`A Note on the Uses of Official Statistics', Social Problems, 11, pp. 131--39.

191

(10)

John I. Kitsuse

Aaron V. Cicourel

`On Exploring the ``Dark Figure'' of Crime', Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 374, pp. 1--15.

201

(16)

Albert D. Biderman

Albert J. Reiss Jr

`Rap Sheets in Criminological Research: Considerations and Caveats', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 10, pp. 3--21.

217

(20)

Michael R. Geerken

`An Experimental Comparison of Two Self-Report Methods for Measuring Lambda', Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 29, pp. 102--21.

237

(20)

Julie Horney

Ineke Haen Marshall

`The Age-Crime Debate: Assessing the Limits of Longitudinal Self-Report Data', Social Forces, 77, pp. 127--54.

257

(28)

Janet L. Lauritsen

`Self-reported Delinquency and a Combined Delinquency Seriousness Scale Based on Boys, Mothers, and Teachers: Concurrent and Predictive Validity for African-Americans and Caucasians', Criminology, 34, pp. 493--517.

285

(28)

David P. Farrington

Rolf Loeber

Magda Stouthamer-Loeber

Welmoet B. van Kammen

Laura Schmidt

PART IV DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF QUANTITATIVE DATA

`Visualizing Homicide: A Research Note', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 14, pp. 397--410.

313

(14)

Michael D. Maltz

`The (Un)known Universe: Mapping Gangs and Gang Violence in Boston', in Crime Mapping and Crime Prevention, D. Weisburd and T. McEwen (eds), Crime Prevention Studies, 7, pp. 219--62.

327

(44)

David M. Kennedy

Anthony A. Braga

Anne M. Piehl

`A Prospective Test of a Criminal Career Model', Criminology, 27, pp. 373--88.

371

(16)

Arnold Barnett

Alfred Blumstein

David P. Farrington

`Micro-Models of Criminal Careers: A Synthesis of the Criminal Careers and Life Course Approaches via Semiparametric Mixed Poisson Regression Models, with Empirical Applications', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 12, pp. 163--91.

387

(30)

Kenneth C. Land

Daniel S. Nagin

`Desistance as a Developmental Process: A Comparison of Static and Dynamic Approaches', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 19, pp. 129--53.

417

(26)

Shawn D. Bushway

Terence P. Thornberry

Marvin D. Krohn

`Trajectories of Crime at Places: A Longitudinal Study of Street Segments in the City of Seattle', Criminology, 42, pp. 283--321.

443

(42)

David Weisburd

Shawn Bushway

Cynthia Lum

Sue-Ming Yang

PART V CAUSAL MODELLING

`Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 113, pp. 43--77.

485

(36)

Ian Ayres

Steven D. Levitt

`A Comparative Study of the Preventive Effects of Mandatory Sentencing Laws for Gun Crimes', Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 83, pp. 378--94.

521

(18)

David McDowall

Colin Loftin

Brian Wiersema

`Time Series Analysis of Crime Rates', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 17, pp. 291--327.

539

(38)

David F. Greenberg

`Poisson-Based Regression Analysis of Aggregate Crime Rates', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 16, pp. 21--43.

577

(24)

D. Wayne Osgood

Name Index

601

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