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.
- ISBN10 0763754277
- ISBN13 9780763754273
- Publish Date 11 May 2007 (first published 1 January 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 June 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
- Format Paperback
- Language English