Descriptions and Predictions: Three Problems for the Future of Criminological Research
- 1 November 1993
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
- Vol. 30 (4) , 412-425
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0022427893030004004
Abstract
The author argues that research in crime and delinquency will become more sophisticated. Philosophical, theoretical, and empirical problems related to overgeneralization, narrow conception, and hazardous collinearity are brought into focus in a discussion of research on criminal behavior.Keywords
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