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Statistics in Criminal Justice and Criminology Research: An Introduction is for advanced undergraduate and graduate level students in criminology and criminal justice statistics courses. It is designed for students pursuing careers in criminology and/or criminal justice by adequately and evenly covering statistical research for both professions. The engaging writing style, real-life applications, and comprehensive format will distinguish this text from its competitors and help establish it as more than just another statistics book.aaaaFitzgerald and Fitzgerald have teamed up to create a flexible and useful text that will not only meet the needs of criminal justiceiminology students but also provide motivation for students who have math anxiety yet strive to become criminal justice professionals.Features and Benefits:1)aFrequent use ofadiagrams and graphs to illustrate ideas and procedures discussed in the text.2) Attention devoted to discussing 'conceptual' formulas and what they represent about the data to helpastudents make sense of the results.3) Extensive sets of review questions and exercises at ends of chapters help students master the content presented. 4) Quotes from actual reports in 'From the Literature' boxes help connect the discussion of research methods and statistical analysis with the research process as a whole.5) 'Pause, Think and Explore' boxes follow the mathematical formulas and are intended to help students develop an understanding of how the formula works, gain confidence in working with the mathematics, and develop better insight about what the formulas are signaling about the data being analyzed.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Statistics for Criminal Justice and Criminology in Practice and Research
• Subtitle: An Introduction
• Author: Jack Fitzgerald, Jerry Fitzgerald
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608
• EAN: 9781412993685
• ISBN: 1412993687
• ID: 04787732
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
• Weight: 994 g
• Dimensions: 232 × 188 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. March 2013

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