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The first handbook of its kind on criminology/criminal justice. An important and much needed contribution to the field. Provides comprehensive coverage of the issues, methods, and future directions in one collection. Serves as the 'go-to' book for students, faculty, and researchers alike working in criminology/criminal justice. The Handbook of Quantitative Criminology is designed to be the authoritative volume on methodological and statistical issues in the criminology/criminal justice field. Like handbooks available in other disciplines (economics, psychology, sociology), this book will be the go-to book for new and advanced methods in our field that will provide overviews of the issues, with examples and figures as warranted, for students, faculty, and researchers alike. Authored by leading scholars in criminology/criminal justice, the Handbook will contain about twenty-five to thirty chapters on topics in the following areas: (1) research design, (2) experimental methods, (3) methods for overcoming data limitations, (4) innovative descriptive methods, (5) estimation techniques for theory and policy, (6) topics in multiple regression, and (7) new directions in statistical analysis.