Surveys of Population Samples for Estimating Crime Incidence
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Albert D. Biderman, Ph.D., Washington, D.C., is Senior Research Associate, Bureau of Social Science Research, Inc., Washington, D.C. He explored uses of crime statistics as social indicators in a recent monograph on Social Indicators and Goals (1966). His broader interest in the regulation of behavior by social codes is reflected in the books March to Calumny: American Prisoners in the Korean War (1963) and, as editor with Herbert Zimmer, The Manipulation of Human Behavior (1961). ABSTRACT: A national survey and intensive surveys in three cities were undertaken for the President’s Commission on Law
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