It is critical for students to have a complete understanding of how to collect and analyze social science data to understand the nature of crime and theories of crime causation. This updated Fifth Edition of Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice: Analysis and Interpretation provides students with a firm knowledge base in the theory and application of statistical analysis. It focuses on data collection, knowing which statistics to use with what data, how to interpret output of SPSS (an IBM company), explanations and demonstrations of statistical procedures, why procedures give the results they do, how to interpret the output of statistical analyses, and more. With this text, students will develop complete comprehension of how to collect, organize and record, analyze, interpret, and apply the statistical information to prepare them for their careers or graduate study.
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Weight: 1106g
Publication Date: 14 Mar 2019
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers Inc
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781284155815
About Jeffery T. WalkerSean Maddan
Jeffery T. Walker PhD is a professor and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and a professor in the Department of Health Behavior at the University of Alabama Birmingham. Previously he was a Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Arkansas Little Rock where he worked for 19 years. Dr. Walker has written 10 books and almost a hundred journal articles and book chapters. He has obtained over $15 million in grants from the Department of Justice National Institute of Drug Abuse National Science Foundation Centers for Disease Control and others. His areas of interest are social/environmental factors of neighborhoods legal issues of policing and crime mapping/crime analysis. He is a past president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Editorial experience includes service as editor of the Journal of Criminal Justice Education. Previous publications include articles in Justice Quarterly Journal of Quantitative Criminology and Journal of Criminal Justice Education and the books Leading Cases in Law Enforcement (10th Edition) and Foundations of Crime Analysis. Sean Maddan PhD is a professor at Texas A&M International University. Previously he was associate professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of West Georgia. His research areas include criminological theory statistics research methods and the efficacy of sex offender registration and notification laws. He is past president of the Southern Criminal Justice Association. Previous publications include articles in Justice Quarterly Journal of Crime and Justice American Journal of Criminal Justice and Journal of Criminal Justice. Dr. Maddan has also authored/co-authored several books; the most recent is The Lower Criminal Courts.'