NCJ Number
233733
Journal
Journal of Quantitative Criminology Volume: 26 Issue: 4 Dated: December 2010 Pages: 415-562
Editor(s)
James P. Lynch,
Alex R. Piquero
Date Published
December 2010
Length
148 pages
Annotation
This journal includes 14 articles which show insight into the journal's year history and future using 3 different but original sources.
Abstract
The first four articles, 1) Remembering the Launch of JQC, 1985-1991; 2) Nurturing the Journal of Quantitative Criminology Through Late Childhood: Retrospective Memories (Distorted?) from a former editor; 3) Picturing JQC's Future; and 4) The Present and Possible Future of Quantitative Criminology discuss previous JQC editors' experiences with the journal and what they envision will be the future of research in criminology. The next eight articles, 5) Longitudinal Criminology; 6) Group-Based Trajectory Modeling (Nearly) Two Decades Later; 7) Communities, Crime, and Reactions to Crime Multilevel Models: Accomplishments and Meta-Challenges; 8) Making Space for Theory: The Challenges of Theorizing Space and Place for Spatial Analysis in Criminology; 9) What You Can and Can't Properly Do with Regression; 10) Gold Standard Myths: Observations on the Experimental Turn in Quantitative Criminology; 11) Advances and Challenges in Empirical Studies of Victimization; and 12) The Development and Impact of Self-Report Measures of Crime and Delinquency all summarize the most important finding in a specified (by title) area of quantitative criminology and how these finding have helped answer or raise important questions in the field. The essays describe what the authors believe the upcoming challenges from criminological research will be and how recent discoveries in the field can help researchers overcome the potential hurdles. The last two articles, 13) Linking the Crime and /Arrest Processes to Measure Variations in Individual Arrest Risk per Crime (Q); and 14) Some Perspectives on Quantitative Criminology Pre-JQC: and Then Some both give a sense of the field's development since the famous 1967 Presidential Crime Commission of which the author was a participant. Included are comments regarding the interrelationship between sophistication of statistical techniques and their influence on theory and policy. Tables, figures, and references