How Well Do Criminologists Explain Crime? Statistical Modeling in Published Studies

By David Weisburd, Alex R. Piquero. Crime and justice, 2008

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Subfields: Nature and Landscape Conservation, Sociology and Political Science

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In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. É. Low‐Décarie
2. Monica Granados
3. Corey J. Chivers

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1. E. Hedberg
2. É. Low‐Décarie
3. C. Katz
4. Monica Granados
5. Corey J. Chivers
6. David E. Choate

Citations in the corpus

• Body-Worn Cameras and Citizen Interactions with Police Officers: Estimating Plausible Effects Given Varying Compliance Levels (2017, background): “In fact, some empirical research suggests that it is a fairly powerful theoretical explanation for predicting criminal behavior (Weisburd & Piquero, 2008, p. 475).”
• Rising complexity and falling explanatory power in ecology (2014, methodology): “While R2 values have been previously used as a measure of progress related to the explanatory ability of a discipline (Weisburd and Piquero 2008), we are aware that R2 is an imperfect measure and has been criticized as having potential interpretations that are inconsistent with its use in the…”