Uses of criminal statistics / edited by Ken Pease.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pease, K. (Kenneth)

Series:

International library of criminology, criminal justice & penology

The international library of criminology, criminal justice and penology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology--Research--Methodology.

Criminology.

Criminal statistics.

Criminal statistics--Great Britain.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 417 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Dartmouth, [1999]

Contents:

I. The presentation of data about crime and justice. Crime : the facts, the figures, the fears / Observer magazine

Research : who needs it? / Don M. Gottfredson. II. Crime trends and patterns. Historical trends in violent crime : a critical review of the evidence / Ted Robert Gurr

Why does crime decrease? / David P. Farrington and Elizabeth A. Dowds

Surveying crime : findings from the 1992 British crime survey / Pat Mayhew and Natalie Aye Maung

A cross-national comparison of victims of crime : victim surveys of twelve countries / Richard Block

Economic cycles and crime in Europe / S. Field

Multiple victimisation : its extent and significance / Graham Farrell

What is different about high crime areas? / Alan Trickett ... [et al.]

Hot spots of predatory crime : routine activities and the criminology of peace / Lawrence W. Sherman, Patrick R. Gartin and Michael E. Buerger.

III. Statistics of criminality. The prevalence of corrections / David P. Farrington

Criminal careers in London and Stockholm : a cross-national comparative study / David P. Farrington and Per-Olof H. Wikstrom

A reconviction predictor for probationers / Christopher Humphrey, Pauline Carter and Ken Pease

Delinquent generations / Leslie T. Wilkins

Drugs and crime / James Q. Wilson

Unemployment and criminal involvement : an investigation of reciprocal causal structures / Terence P. Thornberry and R.L. Christenson. IV. Statistics of criminal justice. Severe sentences : no deterrent to crime? / Robert Baxter and Chris Nuttall

Police cautioning of juveniles in London / David P. Farrington and Trevor Bennett

Feminists' extravaganzas / Nigel Walker

Standardising prosecutions / Debbie Crisp

The use of suspended sentences / R.F. Sparks

Prison size, overcrowding, prison violence, and recidivism / David P. Farrington and Christopher P. Nuttall

Does correctional treatment work? : a clinically relevant and psychologically informed meta-analysis / D.A. Andrews ... [et al.].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1855214083

OCLC:

33947836