Handbook of quantitative criminology
By: Alex R. Piquero, David Weisburd, editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 787
ISBN-13: 9780387776491; 9780387776507
Subjects: Methodology; Criminal statistics; Criminology; Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Alex R. Piquero and David Weisburd -- pt. I-A. Descriptive approaches for research and policy : innovative descriptive methods for crime and justice problems; title: Crime mapping : spatial and temporal challenges  -- Jerry Ratcliffe; title: Look before you analyze : visualizing data in criminal justce  -- Michael D. Maltz; title: Group-based trajectory modeling : an overview  -- Daniel S. Nagin; title: General growth mixture analysis with antecedents and consequences of change  -- Hanno Petras and Katheryn Masyn; title: Spatial regression models in criminology : modeling social processes in the spatial weights matrix  -- George E. Tita and Steven M. Radil; title: Mixed method research in criminology : why not go both ways?  -- Shadd Maruna -- pt. I-B. Descriptive approaches for research and policy : new estimation techniques for assessing crime and justice policy; title: Estimating the cost of crime  -- Mark A. Cohen and Roger Bowles; title: Estimating treatment effects : matching quantification to the question  -- Thomas A. Loughran and Edward P. Mulvey; title: Meta-analysis  -- David B. Wilson; title: Social network analysis  -- Jean Marie McGloin and David S. Kirk; title: Systematic social observations in criminology  -- Stephen D. Mastrofski, Roger B. Parks, and John D. McCluskey -- pt. II. New directions in assessing design, measurement and data quality; title: Identifying and addressing response errors in self-report surveys  -- James P. Lynch and Lynn A. Addington; title: Missing data problems in criminological research  -- Robert Brame, Michael G. Turner, and Ray Paternoster; title: The life event calendar method in criminological research  -- Jennifer Roberts and Julie Horney; title: Statistical power  -- Chester L. Britt and David Weisburd; title: Descriptive validity and transparent reporting in randomised controlled trials  -- Amanda E. Perry; title: Measurement error in criminal justice data  -- John Pepper, Carol Petrie, and Sean Sullivan; title: Statistical models of life events and criminal behavior  -- D. Wayne Osgood -- pt. III-A. Estimation of impacts and outcomes of crime and justice : topics in experimental methods; title: An introduction to experimental criminology  -- Lawrence W. Sherman; title: Randomized block designs  -- Barak Ariel and David P. Farrington; title: Construct validity : the importance of understanding the nature of the intervention under study  -- John S. Goldkamp; title: Place randomized trials  -- Robert Boruch, David Weisburd, and Richard Berk; title: Longitudinal-experimental studies  -- David P. Farrington, Rolf Loeber, and Brandon C. Welsh; title: Multisite trials in criminal justice settings : trials and tribulations of field experiments  -- Faye S. Taxman and Anne Giuranna Rhodes -- pt. III-B. Estimation of impacts and outcomes of crime and justice : innovation in quasi-experimental design; title: Propensity score matching in criminology and criminal justice  -- Robert J. Apel and Gary Sweeten; title: Recent perspectives on the regression discontinuity design  -- Richard Berk; title: Testing theories of criminal decision making : some empirical questions about hypothetical scenarios  -- M. Lynn Exum and Jeffrey A. Bouffard; title: Instrumental variables in criminology and criminal justice  -- Shawn D. Bushway and Robert J. Apel -- pt. III-C. Estimation of impacts and outcomes of crime and justice : non-experimental approaches to explaining crime and justice outcomes; title: Multilevel analysis in the study of crime and justice  -- Brian D. Johnson; title: Logistic regression models for categorical outcomes variables  -- Chester L. Britt and David Weisburd; title: Count models in criminology  -- John M. MacDonald and Pamela K. Lattimore; title: Statistical analysis of spatial crime data  -- Wim Bernasco and Henk Elffers; title: An introduction to statistical learning from a regression perspective  -- Richard Berk; title: Estimating effects over time for single and multiple units  -- Laura Dugan; title: Index.