Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice - Hardcover

Bachman, Ronet; Paternoster, Raymond

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0072518448 ISBN 13: 9780072518443

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2003

Synopsis

This is the only book that introduces students to the statistical methods of criminology and criminal justice and shows how they are actually used. Each detailed yet accessible chapter combines instruction in statistical analysis with investigations of key research questions in the field; for example, what are the causes of crime? Useful at both the introductory and intermediate levels, the text contains in-depth coverage of descriptive statistics, including graphical displays of data and exploratory data analysis, along with bivariate and multivariate analyses. Emphasis is placed equally on calculation and interpretation.

About this title

About the Author:

Ronet Bachman received her Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire in 1989 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow there at the Family Research Laboratory until 1991. For several years she worked at the U.S. Department of Justice as a statistician and research analyst. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. She is the author of many articles that explore the epidemiology and origins of violent victimization, with particular emphasis on victimization against women, the elderly, and minority populations. She also is the author of Death and Violence on the Reservation (Greenwood Press) and coauthored Stress, Culture and Aggression in the United States (Yale University Press).

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0072518448
• ISBN 13: 9780072518443
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 784