Statistical Applications in Criminal Justice

This textbook is specifically designed to give criminology and law students the elements of social statistics. Using examples entirely from criminology, law and justice research, the authors begin with simple mathematical notation and manipulation and work up through: } definitions of major terms } reading of graphs, charts and tables } theoretical basis of statistics, with discussions of probability, sampling and hypothesis testing. Only when the student has a firm mastery of these basic tools do the authors present some of the basic statistical techniques most commonly used in criminal justice research such as t-tests, correlations, simple regression, ANOVA and measures of association.

List of contents

Introduction to Statistics
Basic Descriptive Statistics
Graphic Presentation of Data
Probability and Sampling
Hypothesis Testing
t-Distribution and t-Test
Correlation and Simple Regression
Analysis of Variance
An Introduction
Chi-Square and Measures of Association

Product details

• Authors: Edward J. Latessa, Latessa Edward J., Gennaro F. Vito, Gennaro F. Latessa Vito, Gennaro G. Vito
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.06.1989
• EAN: 9780803929838
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-2983-8
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Law and Criminal Justice Serie; Law and Criminal Justice System; Law and Criminal Justice Serie; Law and Criminal Justice Syste
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; England, Wales, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Criminal law & procedure, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Criminal Justice;Quantitative/Statistical Research