Doing Ethnography in Criminology: Discovery through Fieldwork - Hardcover

Michael D. Maltz is professor emeritus of criminal justice and of information and decision sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago and senior research scientist and adjunct professor of sociology at the Criminal Justice Research Center at Ohio State University. A past editor of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, he was on the staff of the National Institute of Justice (1969-72) and was a visiting fellow at the Bureau of Justice Statistics (1995-2000). In 1996, he held a Fulbright Scholarship at El Colegio de Michoacán in Mexico. His primary research interests have been on the assessing the validity of, and developing measures to extract useful inferences from, crime data. His 1984 book, Recidivism (Academic Press), was awarded the Wilkins Award for theoutstanding book in criminology and the Lanchester Prize of the Operations Research Society of America. He is coauthor of Mapping Crime in Its Community Setting (Springer), (with Andrew Gordon and Warren Friedman), author of Bridging Gaps in Police Crime Data (US Government Printing Office), and co-editor of Envisioning Criminology: Researchers on Research as a Process of Discovery (Springer) (with Stephen K. Rice). He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.