Titlebook: Measurement Issues in Criminology; Kimberly L. Kempf Book 1990 Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1990 Criminal Justice.Criminology.Delinquency

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The Role of Theory in Scientific Research,ers would come to mind as well for a large group of us, expressing results in quantities rather than qualities. Explanation and prediction from theory are yet other mental images conjured up by the word “science.”

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Time Series, Panel Design, and Criminal Justice: A Multi-State, Multi-Wave Design,ter presents a view to the kind of analysis that can be performed under a variety of circumstances. We present the approach to a time-series analysis, concluding with a specific application of this technique.

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Book 1990 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.

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Sources of Data,. Investigators who study crime or social problems have long sought out data necessary to frame or revise research questions, test hypotheses, or interpret findings.. Today, data sources are used to unravel the reasons for crime or deviance, determine the impact of crime prevention or rehabilitation

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Prevalence, Incidence, Rates, and Other Descriptive Measures,tigate the distribution of the particular phenomenon of interest in the study population or sample. In the most simple general terms, a researcher needs to know (a) how many persons in the study possess the trait being investigated and (b) how much of the trait these people have, or stated another w

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Ethical Obligations and Social Research,s, as did our Athenian relatives, or metaphysics, as did our alchemist forefathers, our curiosity about and desire to gain mastery over our world remains strong. In contemporary society, research methods provide us with the principles and techniques to generate knowledge. Social science research all

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Natural Experiments in Criminal Justice,ial reforms and experimental methods and challenged the United States to become an “experimenting society.” The inferential persuasiveness of experimental results has contributed to the design of early childhood education programs, income maintenance policies, work and job training programs, regulat