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Edith Abbott and the origins of Chicago's crime statistics
Author(s) -
Lohr Sharon
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2019.01247.x
Subject(s) - statistician , reputation , criminology , history , sociology , law , medicine , political science , pathology
Chicago in 1914 had a reputation for being crime‐ridden, but there was little available data on the extent of the problem. Enter statistician Edith Abbott, who provided not only evidence but also recommendations to improve the reporting of crime throughout the USA. By Sharon Lohr