Talk:Quantitative methods in criminology

Strong early draft, will require some wikification
Congrats on your work. As an early draft it will certainly require some format and Wikification improvements, and I am sure that the substance also will continue to develop. But I just wanted to note that this article makes an important contribution to the improvement of social science articles in Wikipedia. --Htw3 (talk) 16:08, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Globalization
The article section about Data sources in criminological research discusses using the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports and the National Crime Victimization Survey, which are United States specific measures of crime. Many other countries also compile crime and victimization statistics. The UNODC has even developed a framework for the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS) and many countries are implementing this framework. Some jurisdictions go further and put their crime statistics on-line publicly as open data or can provide suitably qualified researchers with access to even unit record level administrative data. The number of sources of crime or criminological related data are probably as many as there are law enforcement, justice and correctional agencies around the world. And each has a particular way of counting crime. Discussing only the United States statistical measures neglects countries like the United Kingdom and their crime statistics, data available from the UNODC or what might be available from many other countries. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 10:52, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Not discussed in Quantitative research article
The topics and issues raised in this article are not discussed, or even hinted at, in the article about Quantitative research, yet Quantitative methods redirects to that article. What is so special about criminology that we need to have a separate article from the one about general quantitative methods? Yes, there are some specific criminological issues but even these issues are unlikely to be confined to criminology, merely being specific examples of more general issues that researchers might encounter in other fields. I don't know if this is really a methods problem or a need for researchers to be aware of possible issues in the field of criminology and how this might affect quantitative research in this field. I wonder if I am being misled by the title, when the article seems to be more about what one needs to consider when applying any quantitative research methods to criminological subjects. I suppose I am wondering what distinguishes this article from the Quantitative research article. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 12:24, 16 April 2022 (UTC)