Publisher's Synopsis
Criminology is the scientific study of the nature, extent, management, causes, control, consequences, and prevention of criminal behavior, both on the individual and social levels. Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in both the behavioral and social sciences, drawing especially upon the research of sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social anthropologists, as well as scholars of law. The book, Introductory Statistics for Criminal Justice and Criminology, focuses on basic techniques, computations, and practical applications rather than on technical explanations and overly advanced techniques. The purpose of the first chapter to investigate whether implementation of a crime control model (based, in part, on the concepts of COMPSTAT) in one southern California city was effective in reducing crime. The focus of the second chapter is to determine whether various school safety strategies, the school environment, and individual social demographic factors are significantly related to each of the school bullying victimization categories. Third chapter provides an overview of PBL and empirical evidence for the effectiveness of problem-based instruction in many disciplines. This chapter offers theoretical foundations for adopting PBL in the study of crime and criminal justice. Fourth chapter reviews the role of techno science in equipping the world with tools for crime detection and control, thereby improving safety of living environment, personal and property security, proof and identity and authenticity. Fifth chapter focuses on imaginative criminology and its significance. Linking childhood and adult criminality is presented in sixth chapter. Seventh chapter discuses two major shifts in the study of criminology: the facilitation of new methodologies and data techniques; and, the development of new types of crime and delinquency through advancements in computer technology. Eighth chapter provides a comparison of methods for temporal analysis of aoristic crime. Ninth chapter discusses some pros and cons of the approach and present related work to help appreciate the benefits of applying agent-based modelling (ABM) to different criminological research questions. Tenth chapter argues geotagged photos are a novel way to record such data quickly and efficiently. Eleventh chapter uses transportation data to estimate how daily spatio-temporal shifts in population influence the distribution of crime over a city's census tracts (CTs). Last chapter examines the crime prevention measures embedded in the Australian vehicle registration system.
