{"product_id":"handbook-of-quantitative-criminology-9781461413882","title":"Handbook of Quantitative Criminology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQuantitative criminology has certainly come a long way since I was ?rst introduced to a largely qualitative criminology some 40 years ago, when I was recruited to lead a task force on science and technology for the                            President''s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice. At that time, criminology was a very limited activity, depending almost exclusively on the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) initiated by the FBI in 1929 for                            measurement of crime based on victim reports to the police and on police arrests. A ty- cal mode of analysis was simple bivariate correlation. Marvin Wolfgang and colleagues were makingan                            importantadvancebytrackinglongitudinaldata onarrestsin Philadelphia,an in- vation that was widely appreciated. And the ?eld was very small: I remember attending my ?rst meeting of the American Society of Criminology in about                            1968 in an anteroom at New York Univer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction   I. Topics in Research Design  1). Experiments - trials  2). Experiments - block\/randomized and subgroup  3). Propensity scores  4). Regression discontinuity designs  5) Quantitative and Qualitative Data  6) Statistical power   II) Methods for Overcoming Data Limitations  7) Data reliability and data comparisons  8) Missing data   III) Innovative Descriptive Methods  10) Geographic mapping of crime 11) Visualizing data  12) Trajectories  13) Growth curve models   IV) Estimation Techniques for Theory and Policy   14) Estimating Costs of Crime  15) Estimating treatment effects  16) Meta-analysis   V) Topics in Multiple Regression  17) Instrumental variables  18) Multilevel modeling 19) Logic and related extensions  20) Count models   VI) New Directions in Statistical Analysis   21) Geographic statistical analysis of crime  22) Data mining 23) Time series  24) Network analysis   Conclusion","brand":"Springer-Verlag New York Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151273554263,"sku":"9781461413882","price":89.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781461413882.jpg?v=1762960666","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/handbook-of-quantitative-criminology-9781461413882","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}