Quantitative Criminology
Date: 9th - 10th May 2012
Duration: 2 days
Delivered by: Prof Brian Francis
Registration deadline has passed.
Please contact psc@lancaster.ac.uk for more information about this course.
- External from industry/commerce - £510
- External from academic institution/public sector/charity - £440
- External postgraduate student - £300
- Lancaster University staff - £120
- Lancaster University postgraduate student - £60
- Members of Mathematics and Statistics at Lancaster University - £ 0
The course will start with a summary of the different methods of measuring crime, touching on recent newspaper debates on the relative metits of a survey approach compared to police recording. The rest of the first day will be a discussion of various types of study (experimental, and quasi experimental) and methods of analysing such data (matched case-control, case –control and propensity score matching. The second day will cover advances in latent class and latent growth curve analysis and latent trajectory modelling for understanding criminal offending.
A highlight of this course is its topicality – most of the references and textbooks have been published only recently.
- Understand and fit a wide variety of latent structure models to criminological data.
- Understand the various types of research design used in quantitative criminological studies.
- Carry out a propensity score analysis.
- To gain state of the art knowledge in the analysis of criminological data, and to be able to carry out such analyses.
- Understand and criticise a number of recent papers published in the literature.
- To understand the need for design in evaluation, and the various methods used in such evaluation.