Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice

Catalog description

This course serves to introduce students to the quantitative skills, methods, and techniques necessary for analyzing the implementation and impact of programs and policies, specifically those related to criminology and criminal justice. Students will learn the vocabulary associated with scientific thinking and research, data collection, data analysis, data presentation, and interpretation and discussion of analytical results. This is an introductory course in quantitative statistical analysis that covers the properties/characteristics and distributions of data and variables particularly relevant to CCJ as well as both descriptive and inferential statistical approaches to analyzing research questions. (Offered in Spring)