1. Introduction
2. The History of Measuring Crime
3. Official Crime Data
4. Self Report Studies
5. Victimization Surveys
6. Crime Patterns, Evaluating Crime Policies, and Criminological
Theories
Clayton Mosher received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University
of Toronto, and is currently a Professor and Associate Chair in the
Department of Sociology at Washington State University Vancouver.
He is the author of several books and articles in the areas of
inequality in criminal justice system processing, drugs and drug
policies, and the impact of prison construction on employment.
Besides co-authoring the Second Edition of Drugs and Drug Policy,
he co-authored the Second Edition of The Mismeasure of Crime (SAGE,
2012) with Terance Miethe and Timothy Hart. Terance Miethe received
his Ph.D. in Sociology from Washington State University, and is
currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of
Nevada-Las Vegas. He is the author of several books and research
articles in the areas of criminal victimization, theories of crime,
and criminal processing.
Dretha M. Phillips is Senior Research Associate in the Social and
Economic Sciences Research Center at Washington State University,
Vancouver. Her criminal justice/criminology research experience is
wide-ranging. It includes conducting face-to-face interviews with
arrestees in jails, evaluating in-prison substance abuse treatment
programs and community diversion initiatives for convicted
offenders, and designing and analyzing data from public surveys on
sex offender community notification laws.
"The Mismeasure of Crime provides a profound and critical
examination of the history of crime measurement (or rather
mismeasurement) in order to prompt coherent discourse on the
resolution of problems plaguing currently used measures. . . the
book provides a clearer picture of the impact these measures can
have on the formation of crime prevention and control policies. The
book is a wealthy source in discussing specific errors about each
of the most common methods used to report crime. Moreover, the book
does succeed in making the reader a more "savvy consumer" and
better "evaluator" of current statistical methods."
*JOURNAL OF CRIME AND JUSTICE*
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