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Alex R. Piquero - Handbook of Quantitative Criminology - 9781461413882 - V9781461413882
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Handbook of Quantitative Criminology

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Description for Handbook of Quantitative Criminology Paperback. .
Quantitative 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
1376g
Number of Pages
787
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461413882
SKU
V9781461413882
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Ref
99-15

About Alex R. Piquero
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 ... Read more

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