Editor’s notebook: On numerators in search of denominators: An exhortation toward caution in interpreting “reductions” in crime “rate”

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation

Volumn 28, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 145-154

  Pallone, Nathaniel J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime rates; Mathematical illusions; Political grandstanding; Public policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008783293     PISSN: 10509674     EISSN: 15408558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J076v28n03_10     Document Type: Article

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