"Prove It With Figures" displays some of the tools of the social and statistical sciences that have been applied to the proof of facts in the courtroom and to the study of questions of legal importance. It explains how researchers can extract the most valuable and reliable data that can conveniently be made available, and how these efforts sometimes go awry. In the tradition of Zeisel's "Say It with Figures," a standard in the field of social statistics since 1947, it clarifies, in non-technical language, some of the basic problems common to all efforts to discern cause-and-effect...

In this work, Hans and Vidmar review the historical evolution of the trial jury, the contemporary role of the jury in the American criminal justice system, and future prospects for the jury as an institutional force.

"One of the main theses of the Marienthal study was that prolonged unemployment leads to a state of apathy in which the victims do not utilize any longer even the few opportunities left to them. The vicious cycle between reduced opportunities and reduced level of aspiration has remained the focus of all subsequent discussions." So begin the opening remarks to the English-language edition of what has become a major classic in the literature of social stratification.

Diese erstmals 1933 veröffentlichte Arbeit ist ein Grund- und Begründungstext soziographischer Forschung. Ihr Ziel war es, mit den Mitteln moderner Erhebungsmethoden ein Bild von der psychologischen Situation einer Arbeitslosenpopulation (Marienthal in Niederösterreich) zu gewinnen. Zwei Aufgaben mußten gelöst werden - eine inhaltliche: zum Problem der Arbeitslosigkeit Material beizutragen, und eine methodische: einen sozialpsychologischen Tatbestand umfassend darzustellen. Die Forschungsgruppe hat sich, nach einer längeren Vorbereitungsphase, einige Wochen in Marienthal aufgehalten....

"Prove It With Figures" displays some of the tools of the social and statistical sciences that have been applied to the proof of facts in the courtroom and to the study of questions of legal importance. It explains how researchers can extract the most valuable and reliable data that can conveniently be made available, and how these efforts sometimes go awry. In the tradition of Zeisel's "Say It with Figures," a standard in the field of social statistics since 1947, it clarifies, in non-technical language, some of the basic problems common to all efforts to discern cause-and-effect...