The book will synthesize and integrate better what are often disparate ideas, themes, and methods across substantive areas of white-collar crime and criminology and criminal justice.
The book also puts together critical and emerging topics within criminology and criminal justice that have important implications for the study of white-collar crime and criminology/criminal justice more generally.
The book will synthesize and integrate better what are often disparate ideas, themes, and methods across substantive areas of white-collar cr...
The study of crime has focused primarily on why particular people commit crime or why specific communities have higher crime levels than others. In The Criminology of Place, David Weisburd, Elizabeth Groff, and Sue-Ming Yang present a new and different way of looking at the crime problem by examining why specific streets in a city have specific crime trends over time. Based on a 16-year longitudinal study of crime in Seattle, Washington, the book focuses our attention on small units of geographic analysis-micro communities, defined as street segments. Half of all Seattle crime each...
The study of crime has focused primarily on why particular people commit crime or why specific communities have higher crime levels than others. In
Offering more than 900 entries, this work will provide unprecedented complete and systematic coverage of modern criminology and criminal justice, include the broad fields of related to criminology, such as sociology, law and certain areas of psychology.
Offering more than 900 entries, this work will provide unprecedented complete and systematic coverage of modern criminology and criminal justice, incl...
Statistics in Criminal Justice takes an approach that emphasizes the application and interpretation of statistics in research in crime and justice. This text is meant for both students and researchers who want to gain a basic understanding of common statistical methods used in this field. In general, the text relies on a building-block approach, meaning that each chapter helps to prepare the student for the chapters that follow. It also means that the level of sophistication of the text increases as the text progresses. Throughout the text there is an emphasis on comprehension and...
Statistics in Criminal Justice takes an approach that emphasizes the application and interpretation of statistics in research in crime and j...
Police Innovation and Control of the Police: Problems of Law, Order and Community brings together an impressive array of scholars and analysts to examine the impact of the development of crime control strategies on problems of police corruption and abuse. The text provides an historical overview of the development of legal control of the police, and examines the challenges that recent innovations, such as community or problem oriented policing present to the traditional, historical mechanisms for maintaining control of the police. Additionally, a comparative perspective is...
Police Innovation and Control of the Police: Problems of Law, Order and Community brings together an impressive array of scholars and a...
"It is hoped that, through this series, it will be possible to accelerate the process of building knowledge about policing and help bridge the gap between the two worlds the world of police research and police practice. This is an invitation to police scholars and practitioners across the world to come and join in this venture." Dilip K. Das, PhD, Founding President, International Police Executive Symposium (IPES) and Founding Editor-in-Chief, Police Practice and Research: An International Journal (PPR), from the Preface
Policing in Israel presents important...
"It is hoped that, through this series, it will be possible to accelerate the process of building knowledge about policing and help bridge the gap ...
Systematic reviews aim to minimize any possible bias in drawing conclusions by stating explicit criteria for inclusion and exclusion of studies, by conducting extensive and wide-ranging searches for possibly eligible studies, and by making all stages of the review explicit and transparent so that the methods can be checked and replicated. Over a decade ago, a concerted effort was made by members of the criminology community, including the Editors and contributors of this volume, to bring the practice of systematic reviews to the study of Criminology, providing replicable, evidence-based...
Systematic reviews aim to minimize any possible bias in drawing conclusions by stating explicit criteria for inclusion and exclusion of studies, by...
With new chapters on data analysis and multi-level models, and fresh exercises in SPSS and Stata, this fourth edition provides a solid introduction to the topic. Real-life examples show how statistical results are influenced by differing research methods.
With new chapters on data analysis and multi-level models, and fresh exercises in SPSS and Stata, this fourth edition provides a solid introduction to...
