Measuring Delinquency (SAGE Library of Social Research)

A full and complete study of the use of self-reporting as a means of gathering information about delinquency. The psychometric properties of self-reporting techniques, the logic behind their use, their reliability and validity, and the methods of their administration are all discussed. The discrepancies between the picture of delinquency given in official statistics and the picture given by this mode of research are searchingly examined -- along with such variables as race, sex and class.Hindelang, Michael J. is the author of 'Measuring Delinquency (SAGE Library of Social Research)', published 1981 under ISBN 9780803915992 and ISBN 0803915993.