1st Edition
Delinquency Research An Appraisal of Analytic Methods
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. It is a landmark work that continues to serve as an essential tool... Read more
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
Biography
Travis Hirschi, Hanan C. Selvin
