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Making Crime Count
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Haggerty sheds light on the gathering and disseminating of crime statistics through an examination of the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, the branch of Statistics Canada responsible for pro...
Haggerty sheds light on the gathering and disseminating of crime statistics through an examination of the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, the branch of Statistics Canada responsible for producing data on the criminal justice system.
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- Creator
- Kevin D. Haggerty
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- ©2001
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- 1 online resource
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 9781442676893, 1442676892
- OCLC
- ocn999369765
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics: The Organization and Critique of Crime Statistics -- 2. Numerical Governance and Knowledge Networks -- 3. Networks and Numbers: The Institutional Production of Crime Data -- 4. Counting Race: The Politics of a Contentious Classification -- 5. Politics and Numbers -- 6. From Private Facts to Public Knowledge: Authorship and the Media in Communicating Statistical Facts -- Conclusion: Statistics, Governance, and Rationality -- References -- Index