Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice by Ronet D Bachman

Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice by Ronet D Bachman

Packed with real-world case studies and contemporary examples utilizing the most current crime data and empirical research available, students not only learn how to perform and understand statistical analyses, but also recognize the connection between statistical analyses use in everyday life and its importance to criminology and criminal justice. The authors continue to facilitate learning by presenting statistical formulas with step-by-step instructions for calculation. This "how to calculate and interpret statistics "approach avoids complicated proofs and discussions of statistical theory, without sacrificing statistical rigor. The Fourth Edition is replete with new examples exploring key issues in today’s world, motivating students to investigate research questions related to criminal justice and criminology with statistics and conduct research of their own along the way. This edition will also be accompanied by a SAGE Edge site.  New to this edition: Includes current crime data and new research examples  New learning objectives guide students through each chapter, reinforcing the most important concepts for students to understand before proceeding to the next chapter. New SPSS exercises that correspond to relevant chapter material give students hand-on experience using real data

"The book is clear and easy to followAll the material I would cover in my undergraduate stats class is presented in the book…When I teach both the undergraduate and graduate level statistics in the same semester this would be the ideal book to use.  I could use it for both courses just cover all of the material in the graduate level course.  That would allow me really to prep just one instead of two courses."

-- Shelly A. McGrath

"This is a very good statistics book; it is user-friendly, logically structured, and provides novel information that is not available in other comparable textbooks."

-- Viviana Andreescu

"Case studies provide interesting and relevant examples that make concepts easier to understand."

-- Sara Z. Evans, PhD.

"Good discussion of the basics of hypothesis testing (which can be hard to clearly convey to students)"

-- Christopher J Sullivan

"[Statistical Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice is an] excellent introductory text to basic applied statistics. The authors did a successful job in blending theory and application in this textbook. The practical examples and exercises included in the text are very helpful to the students"

-- Fawn T. Ngo

"Detailed and systematic presentation of statistical concepts"

-- Gary Sweeten

Ronet D. Bachman, PhD, worked as a statistician at the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, before going back to an academic career; she is now a professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. She is coauthor of Statistical Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice and coeditor of Explaining Criminals and Crime: Essays in Contemporary Criminal Theory. In addition, she is the author of Death and Violence on the Reservation and coauthor of Stress, Culture, and Aggression; Murder American Style; and Violence: The Enduring Problem, along with numerous articles and papers that examine the epidemiology and etiology of violence, with particular emphasis on women, the elderly, and minority populations as well as research examining desistance from crime. Her most recent federally funded research was a mixed-methods study that examined the long-term desistance trajectories of criminal justice involved drug-involved individuals who have been followed with both quantitative and interview data for nearly thirty years. Her current state-funded research is assessing the needs of violent crime victims, especially those whose voices are rarely heard such as loved ones of homicide victims.   Raymond Paternoster, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. He received his B.A. in sociology at the University of Delaware where he was introduced to criminology by Frank Scarpitti and obtained his Ph.D. at Florida State University under the careful and dedicated tutelage of Gordon Waldo and Ted Chiricos. He is coauthor of The Death Penalty: America’s Experience with Capital Punishment. In addition to his interest in statistics, he also pursues questions related to offender decision making and rational choice theory, desistance from crime, and capital punishment. With funding from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), he is currently working on research comparing the decision-making patterns and characteristics of a sample of serious adult offenders and a comparable group of community members.

SKU	CIN1506326102VG
ISBN 13	9781506326108
ISBN 10	1506326102
Title	Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice
Author	Ronet D Bachman
Condition	Very Good
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc
Year published	2016-04-04
Number of pages	544
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