Canadian Statistics Related to Courts, Crime and Justice

This book is designed to provide a comprehensive primer on the existing best practices and emerging developments in the study and design research on crime and criminology. It includes chapters on the measurement of criminal typologies, the offenders, offending and victimization, criminal justice organizations, and specialized measurement techniques. Each chapter provides a description of the various methodological and substantive challenges presented in conducting research on these issues and denotes possible solutions to these dilemmas.

Written for those with little or no background in statistics, Statistical Analysis in Criminal Justice and Criminology uses common statistical tools to analyze crime data. It includes both SPSS and Excel criminal justice data sets to complete end-of-chapter exercises and analyses.