Measurement issues in criminal justice
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Bibliographic Information
Measurement issues in criminal justice
（Sage research progress series in criminology, v. 32）
Sage Publications, c1983
Available at 9 libraries
Note
"Published in cooperation with the American Society of Criminology."
Includes bibliographies
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Waldo and his colleagues address a problem typical of criminological research: attaining reliability and validity in measuring data obtained under imperfectly controlled conditions. They discuss appropriate operational definitions to use in measuring concepts, the selection of samples, items, and the data collection process -- together with the differing forms of analysis. The book is a copious source of insights into measurement challenges in the social sciences.
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