Elementary Statistics in Social Research

Jack Levin is the Irving and Betty Brudnick Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University. His research interests include, criminology, murder, prejudice and hate, and social psychology. Dr. Levin's other books includeThe Violence of Hate,Why We Hate,The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Sensleless Murder (with James Alan Fox), andExtreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder(with James Alan Fox). James Alan Fox is the Lipman Family Professorof Criminal Justice and Professor of Law, Policy, and Society at Northeastern University. He is the author or co-author of sixteen books includingWill to KillandExtreme Killing(both with Jack Levin); winner of the 2007 Hugo Adam Bedau Award for excellence in capital punishment scholarship; and a former Visiting Fellow with the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice. David Forde is Professor and Graduate Director in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama. His principal research activity has been collecting survey and evaluation data on issues of criminal victimization and trauma. Dr. Forde is a current advisor to the National Institute for Law and Equity and a past advisor to the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission on best practices to reduce crime.Levin, Jack is the author of 'Elementary Statistics in Social Research', published 2009 under ISBN 9780205570690 and ISBN 0205570690.