Making Crime Count / / Kevin D. Haggerty.
Official statistics are one of the most important sources of knowledge about crime and the criminal justice system. Yet, little is known about the inner workings of the institutions that produce these numbers. In this groundbreaking study, Kevin D. Haggerty sheds light on the process involved in the...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics: The Organization and Critique of Crime Statistics
- 2. Numerical Governance and Knowledge Networks
- 3. Networks and Numbers: The Institutional Production of Crime Data
- 4. Counting Race: The Politics of a Contentious Classification
- 5. Politics and Numbers
- 6. From Private Facts to Public Knowledge: Authorship and the Media in Communicating Statistical Facts
- Conclusion: Statistics, Governance, and Rationality
- References
- Index