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Bibliography of Statistical Applications in Law and Justice

NCJ Number
92766
Author(s)
S J Press
Date Published
1983
Length
11 pages
Annotation
A total of 104 bibliographic listings cover 21 categories of statistical applications in various areas of criminal justice.
Abstract

The categories of listings are crime statistics, method of statistical proof, prediction, sampling and data collection, model application, normative forecasting, experimental design, testing significance, estimating crime incidence, standard of proof, court fact-finding, comparison of the criminal statistics of different countries, victimization survey, criminal justice examples, critiques, correctional facilities, courts, criminals, (characteristics, etc.), juries, specific crimes, and miscellaneous.