Handbook of Quantitative Criminology

by Piquero, Alex; Weisburd, David

• ISBN13: 9780387776491
• ISBN10: 0387776494
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-28
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

The Handbook of Quantitative Criminology is designed to be the authoritative volume on methodological and statistical issues in the criminology/criminal justice field. Like handbooks available in other disciplines (economics, psychology, sociology), this book will be the go-to book for new and advanced methods in the field that will provide overviews of the issues, with examples and figures as warranted, for students, faculty, and researchers alike. Authored by leading scholars in criminology/criminal justice, the Handbook contains 24 chapters on topics in the following key areas: (1) research design, (2) experimental methods, (3) methods for overcoming data limitations, (4) innovative descriptive methods, (5) estimation techniques for theory and policy, (6) topics in multiple regression, and (7) new directions in statistical analysis.

Author Biography

Alex R. Piquero is a Professor at the University of Maryland Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Member of the MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on Adolescent Development, and Member of the National Consortium on Violence Research. He is also Executive Counselor of the American Society of Criminology, and is Co-Editor of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.  He received a Ph.D. in Criminology & Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland in 1996, and has received several teaching, research, and mentoring awards, including the American Society of Criminology Young Scholar and E-Mail Mentor of the Year Awards, and a University of Florida Teacher of the Year Award. His research interests include criminal careers, criminological theory, and quantitative research methods. He has published widely in the fields of criminology, criminal justice, psychology, and sociology, and is co-author (with Alfred Blumstein and David Farrington) of a recently published book, Key Issues in Criminal Careers Research.David Weisburd is Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice and Director of the Institute of Criminology at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law, and Distinguished Professor of Administration of Justice at George Mason University.  He is an elected  Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and of the Academy of Experimental Criminology.  He is also Co-Chair of the steering committee of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group, a member of the Harvard University/National Institute of Justice Executive Session in Policing, and of the National Research Council Committee on Crime, Law and Justice.  Professor Weisburd has a long interest in Crime and Place studies beginning with his involvement in a series of experimental studies of police interventions at crime places, including the Minneapolis Hot Spots Experiment, the Jersey City Drug Market Analysis Experiment and the Jersey City Violent Crime Hot Spots Experiment.  Professor Weisburd is presently working on a book with Liz Groff and SueMing Yang that explores the varying factors that explain variation in developmental trends of crime at micro places over time that will be published by Oxford University Press. Professor Weisburd is author or editor of fifteen books and more than eighty scientific articles.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Descriptive Approaches for Research and Policy: Innovative Descriptive Methods for Crime and Justice Problems
Crime Mapping: Spatial and Temporal Challenges	p. 5
Look Before You Analyze: Visualizing Data in Criminal Justice	p. 25
Group-Based Trajectory Modeling: An Overview	p. 53
General Growth Mixture Analysis with Antecedents and Consequences of Change	p. 69
Spatial Regression Models in Criminology: Modeling Social Processes in the Spatial Weights Matrix	p. 101
Mixed Method Research in Criminology: Why Not Go Both Ways?	p. 123
Descriptive Approaches for Research and Policy: New Estimation Techniques for Assessing Crime and Justice Policy
Estimating Costs of Crime	p. 143
Estimating Treatment Effects: Matching Quantification to the Question	p. 163
Meta-analysis	p. 181
Social Network Analysis	p. 209
Systematic Social Observation in Criminology	p. 225
New Directions in Assessing Design, Measurement and Data Quality
Identifying and Addressing Response Errors in Self-Report Surveys	p. 251
Missing Data Problems in Criminological Research	p. 273
The Life Event Calendar Method in Criminological Research	p. 289
Statistical Power	p. 313
Descriptive Validity and Transparent Reporting in Randomized Controlled Trials	p. 333
Measurement Error in Criminal Justice Data	p. 353
Statistical Models of Life Events and Criminal Behavior	p. 375
Estimation of impacts and outcomes of crime and justice: Topics in Experimental Methods
An Introduction to Experimental Criminology	p. 399
Randomized Block Designs	p. 437
Construct Validity: The Importance of Understanding the Nature of the Intervention Under Study	p. 455
Place Randomized Trials	p. 481
Longitudinal-Experimental Studies	p. 503
Multisite Trials in Criminal Justice Settings: Trials and Tribulations of Field Experiments	p. 519
Estimation of Impacts and Outcomes of Crime and Justice: Innovation in Quasi-Experimental Design
Propensity Score Matching in Criminology and Criminal Justice	p. 543
Recent Perspectives on the Regression Discontinuity Design	p. 563
Testing Theories of Criminal Decision Making: Some Empirical Questions about Hypothetical Scenarios	p. 581
Instrumental Variables in Criminology and Criminal Justice	p. 595
Estimation of Impacts and Outcomes of Crime and Justice: Non-Experimental Approaches to Explaining Crime and Justice Outcomes
Multilevel Analysis in the Study of Crime and Justice	p. 615
Logistic Regression Models for Categorical Outcome Variables	p. 649
Count Models in Criminology	p. 683
Statistical Analysis of Spatial Crime Data	p. 699
An Introduction to Statistical Learning from a Regression Perspective	p. 725
Estimating Effects over Time for Single and Multiple Units	p. 741
Index	p. 765
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.