The Mismeasure of Crime.

Filled with real world examples derived from media reports on crime trends and other sources, this fully updated Second Edition analyzes the specific errors that can occur in the three most common methods used to report crime-official crime data, self report, and victimization studies. For each meth...

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Main Author: Mosher, Clayton James
Other Authors: Miethe, Terance D., Hart, Timothy C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2010.
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