This text deals with the degree to which criminal behaviour represents a rational choice. This collection of essays by experts in the field of criminal justice examines various aspects of the rational choice framework.
This text deals with the degree to which criminal behaviour represents a rational choice. This collection of essays by experts in the field of crimina...
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...
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 ...
