State Rankings 2011

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-60871-733-0
Verlag: CQ Press

Buch, Englisch, 624 Seiten, Format (B × H): 211 mm x 277 mm, Gewicht: 1385 g

How does your state fare in terms of air quality or population growth? Is it keeping up with national education standards? State Rankings 2011 is CQ Press's popular rankings reference book that makes it easy to compare states in education, health, crime, transportation, taxes, government finance, and so much more. State Rankings has become a favorite resource on reference shelves throughout the United States and around the world.The editors have compiled useful statistics that would otherwise take an enormous amount of time to research. In more than 550 user-friendly tables, State Rankings 2011 compares every state and Washington, DC, in the following areas: Agriculture Population Economy Environment Government finance Crime Education Geography Social welfare Defence Health Energy Housing The formula and methodology are discussed in a narrative chapter allowing researchers to cite statistics with context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boba, Rachel

Santos, Rachel Boba

Morgan, Kathleen O'Leary

Morgan, Scott

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Über Autor(innen)

Morgan, Scott
Scott Morgan is an attorney who served as chief counsel to Senator Bob Dole’s 1988 presidential campaign.

Morgan, Kathleen O'Leary
Kathleen O’Leary Morgan holds a master’s degree in public administration and has served in a number of media and legislative liaison positions with the U.S. Department of Transportation, where she was also deputy director of congressional affairs.

Santos, Rachel Boba
Rachel Boba Santos is a professor at Radford University in the Department of Criminal Justice. She works with police departments and crime analysts. She conducts experimental and applied research on place-based and offender-based police crime reduction strategies, stratified policing, crime analysis, community engagement, and police use of force.
Dr. Santos' interests include conducting practice-based research which is implementing and evaluating evidence-based practices in the “real world” of criminal justice. In particular, she seeks to improve crime prevention and crime reduction efforts by police in areas such as crime analysis, problem solving, accountability, as well as leadership and organizational change. She and Dr. Roberto Santos co-created Stratified Policing which is an organizational model for systemizing proactive crime reduction strategies in police departments. Other areas of research include police/researcher partnerships, police/community collaboration, hot spot and problem-oriented policing, predictive policing, environmental criminology, crime and place, police/crime data and technology, experimental research methodology, and program evaluation.