Understanding Crime Data (Crime and Justice (Buckingham, England)) - Hardcover

Coleman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0335195199 ISBN 13: 9780335195190

Publisher: Open University Pres, 1996

Synopsis

Understanding crime data begins by locating the study and use of crime data within the theoretical and historical development of criminology, a subject that has long been haunted by the dark figure of hidden crime and offenders. Readers are guided through the development, limitations and uses of the three main sources of numerical crime data, and selected key issues in the interpretation of crime data are examined.
The characteristics of offenders are discussed with reference to the key variables of age, sex, race and class, and the difficulties involved in interpreting long- and short-term trends in the crime rate are highlighted. The authors assess what crime data can tell us about the relationships between crime and unemployment, and they conclude the book with their personal evaluation and prognosis of the field.
Understanding crime data is a well structured text for students of criminology, and it includes annotated further reading, lists of basic concepts, and a glossary for ease of reference. It will also have considerable appeal to professionals in criminal justice, probation and social work.

About this title

About the Author

Clive Coleman is a lecturer in criminology in the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Hull.

Edition details

• Publisher: Open University Pres
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0335195199
• ISBN 13: 9780335195190
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 180