Measurement Issues In Criminal Justice

Author : Beth M. Huebner,Timothy S. Bynum
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118868782

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The Handbook of Measurement Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice by Beth M. Huebner,Timothy S. Bynum Pdf

This volume of the series was designed to provide a comprehensive primer on the existing best practices and emerging developments in the study and design research on crime and criminology. The work as a whole includes chapters on the measurement of criminal typologies, the offenders, offending and victimization, criminal justice organizations, and specialized measurement techniques. Each chapter is written by experts in the field and they provide an excellent survey of the literature in the relevant area. More importantly, each chapter provides a description of the various methodological and substantive challenges presented in conducting research on these issues and denotes possible solutions to these dilemmas. An emphasis was placed on research that has been conducted outside of the United States and was designed to give the reader a broader more global understanding of the social context of research. The goal of this volume is to provide a definitive reference for professionals in the field, researchers, and students. This volume in the Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice series identifies the principal topical areas of research in this field and summarizes the various methodological and substantive challenges presented in conducting research on these issues. In each chapter, authors provide a summary of the prominent data collection efforts in the topical area, provide an overview of the current methodological work, discuss the challenges in the measurement of central concepts in the subject area, and identify new horizons emerging in data collection and measurement. We encouraged authors to discuss work conducted in an international context and to incorporate discussion of qualitative methodologies when appropriate.

Author : Kimberly L. Kempf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461390091

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Measurement Issues in Criminology by Kimberly L. Kempf Pdf

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.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,COMMITTEE ON LAW AND JUSTICE.,Committee on National Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0309384567

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Measurement Problems in Criminal Justice Research by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,COMMITTEE ON LAW AND JUSTICE.,Committee on National Statistics Pdf

Most major crime in this country emanates from two major data sources. The FBIâ (TM)s Uniform Crime Reports has collected information on crimes known to the police and arrests from local and state jurisdictions throughout the country. The National Crime Victimization Survey, a general population survey designed to cover the extent, nature, and consequences of criminal victimization, has been conducted annually since the early1970s. This workshop was designed to consider similarities and differences in the methodological problems encountered by the survey and criminal justice research communities and what might be the best focus for the research community. In addition to comparing and contrasting the methodological issues associated with self-report surveys and official records, the workshop explored methods for obtaining accurate self-reports on sensitive questions about crime events, estimating crime and victimization in rural counties and townships and developing unbiased prevalence and incidence rates for rate events among population subgroups.

Author : National Institute of Justice (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : IND:30000066887385

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Criminal Justice Research Solicitation by National Institute of Justice (U.S.) Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Committee on Law and Justice
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780309086356

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Measurement Problems in Criminal Justice Research by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Committee on Law and Justice Pdf

Most major crime in this country emanates from two major data sources. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports has collected information on crimes known to the police and arrests from local and state jurisdictions throughout the country. The National Crime Victimization Survey, a general population survey designed to cover the extent, nature, and consequences of criminal victimization, has been conducted annually since the early1970s. This workshop was designed to consider similarities and differences in the methodological problems encountered by the survey and criminal justice research communities and what might be the best focus for the research community. In addition to comparing and contrasting the methodological issues associated with self-report surveys and official records, the workshop explored methods for obtaining accurate self-reports on sensitive questions about crime events, estimating crime and victimization in rural counties and townships and developing unbiased prevalence and incidence rates for rate events among population subgroups.

Author : Gordon P. Waldo
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1983-11
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B4508725

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Measurement Issues in Criminal Justice by Gordon P. Waldo Pdf

Waldo and his colleagues address a problem typical of criminological research: attaining reliability and validity in measuring data obtained under imperfectly controlled conditions. They discuss appropriate operational definitions to use in measuring concepts, the selection of samples, items, and the data collection process -- together with the differing forms of analysis. The book is a copious source of insights into measurement challenges in the social sciences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Crime analysis
ISBN : UOM:39015042646649

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Criminal Justice 2000: Measurement and analysis of crime and justice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wesley G. Skogan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015034277007

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Issues in the Measurement of Victimization by Wesley G. Skogan Pdf

Author : National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Law enforcement
ISBN : IND:30000068256050

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Criminal Justice Research Solicitation by National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Pdf

Author : National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : UOM:39015030532017

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Performance Measurement and the Criminal Justice System by National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Pdf

These four working papers present research designs for system-wide data analysis and productivity measurement for evaluation. The four papers, prepared by four working teams, are titled, "Performance Measurement and the Criminal Justice System," "A Conceptual Basis for Effectiveness Measurement of Law Enforcement Activities"' "Performance Measures for Evaluation of LEAA and CJS Programs;" and "A Program of Research on Performance Measurement and Evaluation for the Criminal Justice System." Concepts covered by the papers include total social cost associated with crime and crime control, a systematic approach to determine a methodology for the measurement of law enforcement effectiveness, system-level aggregate performance measures, analysis and interpretation of criminal justice statistics, and operational performance measures. An additional topic coverage is the use of evaluation as a technical tool for better measurement and resource allocation

Author : Martin A. Andresen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135006266

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The Science of Crime Measurement by Martin A. Andresen Pdf

Crime statistics are ubiquitous in modern society – but how accurate are they? This book investigates the science of crime measurement focussing on four main questions: how do we count crime? How do we calculate crime rates? Are there other measurements of crime? What are the issues surrounding crime statistics? All too often we take the measurement of crime at face value when there is, in fact, a science behind it. This book specifically deals with issues related to spatially-referenced crime data that are used to analyse crime patterns across the urban environment. The first section of the book considers alternative crime rate calculations. The second section of the book contains a thorough discussion of a measure of crime specialisation. Finally, the third section of the book addresses a number of aggregation issues that are present with such data: crime type aggregations, temporal aggregations of crime data, the stability of crime patterns over time, and the importance of spatial scale. This book builds on a growing body of literature on the science of crime measurement and offers a comprehensive account of this growing subfield of criminology. The book speaks to wider debates in the fields of crime analysis, environmental criminology and crime prevention and will be perfect reading for advanced level undergraduate and graduate students looking to find out more about the measurement of crime.

Author : Lynn A. Addington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780199805655

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Measuring Crime: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Lynn A. Addington Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In criminology, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Criminology, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study and practice of criminology. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.

Author : Doris L. MacKenzie,Phyllis Jo Baunach,Roy R. Roberg
Publisher : Suny Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038636671

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Measuring Crime by Doris L. MacKenzie,Phyllis Jo Baunach,Roy R. Roberg Pdf

The authors systematically explore and integrate available knowledge about the essential large data bases in criminological research. The book critically examines the way crime is measured, and the future of statistical methods in the National Crime Survey and the Uniform Crime Reports (FBI). A distinguished group of contributors discusses theoretical issues of crime measurement, analyzes the National Crime Survey (NCS), examines surveys and censuses for prisons and jails and their limitations, explores the use of archival data in criminological research and measuring homicide, and discusses implications for policy in the criminal justice arena.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Criminal justice personnel
ISBN : IND:30000038612242

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Performance Measures for the Criminal Justice System by Anonim Pdf

A Discussion paper from the BJS-Princeton Project.

Author : Tim Newburn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1863 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317244257

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Criminology by Tim Newburn Pdf

Comprehensive and accessible, Tim Newburn’s bestselling Criminology provides an introduction to the fundamental themes, concepts, theories, methods and events that underpin the subject and form the basis for all undergraduate degree courses and modules in Criminology and Criminal Justice. This third edition includes: A new chapter on politics, reflecting the ever increasing coverage of political influence and decision making on criminology courses New and updated crime data and analysis of trends, plus new content on recent events such as the Volkswagen scandal, the latest developments on historic child abuse, as well as extended coverage throughout of the English riots A fully revised and updated companion website, including exam, review and multiple choice questions, a live Twitter feed from the author providing links to media and academic coverage of events related to the concepts covered in the book, together with links to a dedicated textbook Facebook page Fully updated to reflect recent developments in the field and extensively illustrated, this authoritative text, written by a leading criminologist and experienced lecturer, is essential reading for all students of Criminology and related fields.