Predicting Recidivism Using Survival Models

Peter Schmidt, Ann D Witte

• Paperback | Engels | Research in Criminology
• Our interest in the statistical modeling of data on the timing of recidivism began in the mid 1970s when we were both junior members of the eco- nomic... Lees meer

Off School, in Court

Ian Berg, Imogen Brown, Roy Hullin

• Paperback | Engels | Research in Criminology
• This book is concerned with an investigation of severe school attendance problems. The purpose of this study is to integrate and synthesize related re... Lees meer

Understanding Crime Incidence Statistics

Albert D Biderman, James P Lynch

• Paperback | Engels | Research in Criminology
• The prominence achieved by the novel measure of "households touched by crime" when it was introduced into the National Crime Survey (NCS) in 1981 was ... Lees meer

The Social Contexts of Criminal Sentencing

Martha A Myers, Susette M Talarico

• Paperback | Engels | Research in Criminology
• Historically, the announcement and invocation of criminal penalties were public spectacles. Today, fear of crime and disaffection with the criminal ju... Lees meer

Urban Crime, Criminals, and Victims

Per-Olof H Wikström

• Paperback | Engels | Research in Criminology
• Crime is largely an urban phenomenon, but the specifically urban and area dimen- sions of the social processes that are connected with crime have been... Lees meer

The Social Contexts of Criminal Sentencing

Martha A Myers, Susette M Talarico

• Hardcover | Engels | Research in Criminology
• Historically, the announcement and invocation of criminal penalties were public spectacles. Today, fear of crime and disaffection with the criminal ju... Lees meer

Understanding and Controlling Crime

David P Farrington, Lloyd E Ohlin, James Q Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Research in Criminology
• In 1982 the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation created a small committee-the Justice Program Study Group (whose membership is listed at the... Lees meer

Judicial Decision Making, Sentencing Policy, and Numerical Guidance

Austin Lovegrove

• Paperback | Engels | Research in Criminology
• This book describes an original, empirical study of judicial decision making. The process of determining sentences is a difficult one for judges and o... Lees meer

Human Development and Criminal Behavior

Michael Tonry, Lloyd E Ohlin, David P Farrington

• Paperback | Engels | Research in Criminology
• Human Development and Criminal Behavior proposes an exten- sive agenda for crime research. The book is part of a pio- neering effort to understand the... Lees meer

Selective Incapacitation and the Serious Offender

Rudy Haapanen

• Paperback | Engels | Research in Criminology
• And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee; for it is profitable for thee that one ofthy members should perish, and not that... Lees meer

Criminal Behavior and the Justice System

• Paperback | Engels | Research in Criminology
• Readers of this book can gain novel insight into the various theoretical perspectives of psychology and law. It is demonstrated that psychology is not... Lees meer

Justice Under Pressure

Sheldon Ekland-Olson, William R Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | Research in Criminology
• Justice Under Pressure analyzes the effects of prison crowding on the justice system. The authors focus on dramatic changes in the administration of c... Lees meer

Developments in Crime and Crime Control Research

• Paperback | Engels | Research in Criminology
• "One of the central features of modern German criminology in revealing the 'true nature of crime' follows the tradition of enlightment" instead of acc... Lees meer

Coping, Behavior, and Adaptation in Prison Inmates

Edward Zamble, Frank J Porporino

• Paperback | Engels | Research in Criminology
• This book is the report of a collaborative effort. Frank Porporino and I arrived at the starting point for our work together by very different routes.... Lees meer

Deterrence and Juvenile Crime

Anne L Schneider

• Paperback | Engels | Research in Criminology
• "Americans have an abiding faith in punishment", asserts Anne Schneider in her introduction of Deterrence and Juvenile Crime . Dr. Schneider explores ... Lees meer

Prisons Crowding: A Psychological Perspective

Paul Paulus

• Paperback | Engels | Research in Criminology
• This volume is a summary of a 1S-year effort to determine the effects of prison crowding and their relationship to the broader realm of crowding pheno... Lees meer

Multiple Problem Youth

Delbert S Elliott, David Huizinga, Scott Menard

• Paperback | Engels | Research in Criminology
• Multiple Problem Youth addresses the complex connections among drug abuse, delinquency, and mental health problems as they apply to adolescents and yo... Lees meer

Male Criminal Activity from Childhood Through Youth

Marc Le Blanc, Marcel Frechette

• Paperback | Engels | Research in Criminology
• Male Criminal Activity From Childhood Through Youth reports the results of a large longitudinal study from 1972 to 1985 on a sample of delinquents and... Lees meer

Policing and Punishing the Drinking Driver

Ross Homel

• Paperback | Engels | Research in Criminology
• Policing and Punishing the Drinking Driver is at one level about the impact of specific drinking-driving countermeasures (punishments imposed by court... Lees meer

Crime and Criminal Policy in Japan

Minoru Shikita, Shinichi Tsuchiya

• Hardcover | Engels | Research in Criminology
• The Showa Era in Japan commenced in December 1926, when Emperor Showa ascended the Throne, and came to an end in January 1989, when His Majesty passed... Lees meer

Crime and Criminal Policy in Japan

Minoru Shikita, Shinichi Tsuchiya

• Paperback | Engels | Research in Criminology
• This book results from the Herculean task of gathering, evaluating and analyzing criminological data for a period during which even the recording of d... Lees meer

Off School, in Court

Ian Berg, Imogen Brown, Roy Hullin

• Hardcover | Engels | Research in Criminology
• This book is concerned with an investigation of severe school attendance problems. The purpose of this study is to integrate and synthesize related re... Lees meer

Justice Under Pressure

Sheldon Ekland-Olson, William R Kelly

• Hardcover | Engels | Research in Criminology
• Justice Under Pressure analyzes the effects of prison crowding on the justice system. The authors focus on dramatic changes in the administration of c... Lees meer

Judicial Decision Making, Sentencing Policy, and Numerical Guidance

Austin Lovegrove

• Hardcover | Engels | Research in Criminology
• This book describes an original, empirical study of judicial decision making. The process of determining sentences is a difficult one for judges and o... Lees meer