The Mismeasure of Crime (Key Questions for Criminal Justice)
"The Mismeasure of Crime provides a profound and critical examination of the history of crime measurement (or rather mismeasurement) in order to prompt coherent discourse on the resolution of problems plaguing currently used measures. . . the book provides a clearer picture of the impact these measures can have on the formation of crime prevention and control policies. The book is a wealthy source in discussing specific errors about each of the most common methods used to report crime. Moreover, the book does succeed in making the reader a more "savvy consumer" and better "evaluator" of current statistical methods."(JOURNAL OF CRIME AND JUSTICE)