Human rights and statistics : getting the record straight

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Human rights and statistics : getting the record straight

edited by Thomas B. Jabine and Richard P. Claude

(Pennsylvania studies in human rights)

University of Pennsylvania Press, c1992

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Effective human rights advocacy and research require the use of statistics, carefully collected and objectively analyzed and presented, using the best techniques available. Statistics that lack credibility are of little value. Those that can be defended against critics can be effective in throwing the light on violations and promoting the observance of human rights for all. The contributors to this book, including experts in political science, public health, law, forensic pathology, and statistics, illustrate good statistical practice in the field of human rights and show the importance of collaboration between statisticians and other professionals. The treatment is largely nonmathematical, and the examples provide broad coverage of all features of the collection and use of statistical data on human rights violations. For readers who would like to do their own analyses, an extensive guide to human rights data sources is included. This book is the first to describe and summarize important issues associated with the collection and uses of human rights statistics.

目次

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Exploring Human Rights Issues with Statistics -Richard P. Claude and Thomas B. Jabine 2. The Limitations of Using Quantitative Data in Studying Human Rights Abuses -Robert Justin Goldstein 3. Use of Incomplete and Distorted Data in Inference About Human Rights Violations -Douglas A. Samuelson and Herbert F. Spirer Introduction 4. Guidelines for Field Reporting of Basic Human Rights Violations -Randy B. Reiter , M. V. Zunzunegui , and Jose Quiroga 5. HURIDOCS Standard Formats as a Tool in the Documentation of Human Rights Violations -Judith Dueck 6. The Rights of Collectivities: Principles and Procedures in Measuring the Human Rights Status of Communal and Political Groups -Ted Robert Gurr and Barbara Harff 7. Political Rights and Political Liberties in Nations: An Evaluation of Human Rights Measures, 1950 to 1984 -Kenneth A. Bollen 8. Problems of Concept and Measurement in the Study of Human Rights -George A. Lopez and Michael Stohl 9. Human Rights Reporting as a Policy Tool: An Examination of the State Department Country Reports -Judith Eleanor Innes 10. Human Rights Reporting in Two Nations: A Comparison of the United States and Norway -Kathleen Pritchard Introduction 11. Statistical Evidence of Racial Disparities in Death Sentencing: A Critical Analysis of McCleskey v. Kemp -Glenn Dickinson and William B. Fairley 12. A Statistical Analysis of Dutch Human Rights Case Law Manfred Nowak and Herman von Hebel 13. An Epidemiology of Homicide: Ningun Nombre Burials in the Province of Buenos Aires from 1970 to 1984 -Clyde Collins Snow and Maria Julia Bihurriet 14. New Patterns of Oppression: An Updated Analysis of Human Rights Data -David L. Banks 15. A Guide to Human Rights Data Sources -Michael Cain , Richard P. Claude , and Thomas B. Jabine Contributors Index

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