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  • The Future of the Criminology of Place

    New Directions for Research and Practice

    by David Weisburd, Barak Ariel, Anthony A. Braga, John Eck, Charlotte Gill, Elizabeth Groff, Clair V. Uding, Amarat Zaatut ...
    Series series Elements in Criminology
    Microgeographic units of analysis have moved to the center of criminological inquiry. This Element brings together leading crime-and-place scholars to identify promising areas for future study. Section 1 introduces the Element and the importance of focusing on the future of studies of crime and place. Section 2 examines the development of hot-spots policing and the importance of focusing on its ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Place Matters

    Criminology for the Twenty-First Century

    by David Weisburd, John E. Eck, Anthony A. Braga, Cody W. Telep, Breanne Cave, Kate Bowers, Gerben Bruinsma, Charlotte Gill, Julie Hibdon, Joshua C. Hinkle, Shane D. Johnson, Brian Lawton, Cynthia Lum, George Rengert, Travis Taniguchi, Sue-Ming Yang, Elizabeth R. Groff, Jerry H. Ratcliffe ...
    Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the 'criminology of place'. It pushes scholars to examine small geographic areas within cities, often as small as addresses or street ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Basic Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice

    by David Weisburd, Chester Britt, David B. Wilson, Alese Wooditch ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This introductory textbook takes a building-block approach that emphasizes the application and interpretation of statistics in research in crime and justice. This text is meant for both students and professionals who want to gain a basic understanding of common statistical methods used in criminology and criminal justice before advancing to more complex statistical analyses in future volumes.This ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Advanced Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice

    by David Weisburd, David B. Wilson, Alese Wooditch, Chester Britt ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book provides the student, researcher or practitioner with the tools to understand many of the most commonly used advanced statistical analysis tools in criminology and criminal justice, and also to apply them to research problems.The volume is structured around two main topics, giving the user flexibility to find what they need quickly. The first is “the general linear model” which is the ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Statistics in Criminal Justice

    by David Weisburd, Chester Britt ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Statistics in Criminal Justice takes an approach that emphasizes the application and interpretation of statistics in research in crime and justice. This text is meant for both students and researchers who want to gain a basic understanding of common statistical methods used in this field. In general, the text relies on a building-block approach, meaning that each chapter helps to prepare the ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Policing Hot Spots of Crime

    Edited by David L. Weisburd ...
    Series series Advances in Police Theory and Practice
    This volume provides a broad framework for understanding hot spots policing in the context of contributions by Professor David Weisburd, recipient of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology for his work in this area.The book aims to bring together a wide array of studies that are seldom integrated into a broad general argument about why hot spots policing “makes sense,” why police agencies should be ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Future of Evidence-Based Policing

    Edited by David Weisburd, Tal Jonathan-Zamir, Gali Perry, Badi Hasisi ...
    Evidence-based policing (EBP) has become a key perspective for practitioners and researchers concerned with the future of policing. This volume provides both a review of where evidence-based policing stands today and a consideration of emerging trends and ideas likely to be important in the future. It includes comparative and international contributions, as well as researcher and practitioner ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Police Innovation

    Contrasting Perspectives

    Edited by David Weisburd, Anthony A. Braga ...
    Over the last forty years, policing has gone through a period of significant change and innovation. The emergence of new strategies has also raised issues about effectiveness and efficiency in policing, and many of these proactive strategies have become controversial as citizens have asked whether they are also fair and unbiased. Updated and expanded for the second edition, this volume brings ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Crime and Social Organization

    Edited by Elin Waring, David Weisburd ...
    Series series Advances in Criminological Theory
    This tenth volume in the Advances in Criminological Theory series is dedicated to the work of Albert J. Reiss, Jr. It focuses on the relationship between crime and social organization that is so central to his work. This focus rejects a view of crime solely as the action of atomistic individuals and sees the criminal justice system as inseparable from its social, political and organizational ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Quantitative Methods in Criminology

    by Shawn Bushway ...
    Series series International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology - Second Series
    This informative reference volume features the key papers in the growing field of quantitative criminology. The papers provide examples of the importation of statistical methods from other fields to criminology, the adaptation of such methods to special criminological problems through introspection, and the development of new innovative statistical approaches. The volume illustrates the growing ... Read more

    $290.00 USD

  • Policing in Israel

    Studying Crime Control, Community, and Counterterrorism

    Edited by Tal Jonathan-Zamir, David Weisburd, Badi Hasisi ...
    Series series Advances in Police Theory and Practice
    "It is hoped that, through this series, it will be possible to accelerate the process of building knowledge about policing and help bridge the gap between the two worlds the world of police research and police practice. This is an invitation to police scholars and practitioners across the world to come and join in this venture." Dilip K. Das, PhD, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Translational Criminology in Policing

    Edited by The George Mason Police Research Group with David Weisburd ...
    Series series Advances in Police Theory and Practice
    With contributions from international policing experts, this book is the first of its kind to bring together a broad range of scholarship on translational criminology and policing. Translational criminology aims to understand the obstacles and facilitators to implementing research by decisionmakers to improve effectiveness, fairness, and efficiency in the criminal justice system. Although the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD