Travis Hirschi, Hanan C Selvin

Delinquency Research

An Appraisal of Analytic Methods

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This remarkable guide to delinquency studies was co-winner of the 1968 C. Wright Mills Award for the best book in the field of social problems. The work is in effect three books in one: a forthright account of how to analyze survey data, a penetrating critique of delinquency research, and a set of original essays on methodology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nordic Africa Institute
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 149mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781560008439
• ISBN-10: 1560008431
• Artikelnr.: 26188395

Autorenporträt

Travis Hirschi, Hanan C. Selvin

Inhaltsangabe

i: The Nature of Methodological Criticism
On Approaching Methodology
2: Critiques of Delinquency Research
ii: Causal Analysis
3: Principles of Causal Analysis
4: Causal Order
5: Genuine and Spurious Relations
6: Links in the Causal Chain
7: Interaction of Variables
8: False Criteria of Causality *
iii: Multivariate Analysis
9: Some Problems of Multivariate Statistical Analysis
10: The Shortcomings of Tabular Analysis 1
iv: Conceptualization and Inference
11: Concepts, Indicators, and Indices
12: Reliability and Scaling
13: Statistical Inference
14: Description and Prediction
15: Individual and Group Variables
A Final Word