NCJ Number
30736
Journal
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Volume: 66 Issue: 3 Dated: (SEPTEMBER 1975) Pages: 366-379
Date Published
1975
Length
14 pages
Annotation
THE AUTHOR ESPOUSES A GENERAL THEORY AND RESEARCH FRAMEWORK OF MACRO-CRIMINOLOGY, WHICH EXAMINES CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR AS JUST ONE PART OF A CONTINUUM OF BEHAVIOR PATTERNS RANGING FROM GOOD TO BAD.
Abstract
THIS ARTICLE SERVES THE TWO-FOLD PURPOSE OF REVIEWING THE LITERATURE DEALING WITH COMPARATIVE CRIMINOLOGY AND OF SUGGESTING NEW DIRECTIONS FOR RESEARCH. THIS MACROCRIMINOLOGICAL GENERAL THEORY WILL BE ENRICHED BY THE CONTRIBUTION OF MORE AND MORE SEARCHING TECHNIQUES OF MULTIVARIED ANALYSIS, MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS, OF ANALYSIS THROUGH A DICHOTOMY OF ATTRIBUTES, AND ANALYSIS OF THE DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION, IN SHORT, TECHNIQUES OF ANALYSIS THROUGH WHICH THE SCIENCE OF ECONOMETRICS BROUGHT A LEVEL OF REFINEMENT PREVIOUSLY UNTHINKABLE IN THEORETICAL ANALYSIS. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT MODIFIED)