期刊名称：International Journal of Conflict and Violence
印刷版ISSN：1864-1385
出版年度：2014
卷号：8
期号：2
页码：190-198
语种：English
出版社：International Journal of Conflict and Violence
摘要：This editorial introduces the IJCV Focus Section on Methodological Issues in Longitudinal Analyses of Criminal Violence. Longitudinal designs offer distinctive advantages for purposes of making causal inferences with observational data, but significant challenges must be confronted as well. The purpose of this editorial is to highlight some of the more important methodological issues that arise in longitudinal analyses, describe in general terms selected approaches for dealing with them, and indicate ways in which the papers included in this focus section skilfully apply methodological techniques for longitudinal analyses to address substantively important issues pertaining to criminal violence.
关键词：sociology; criminology; political science;research design; longitudinal analyses; quantitative methods
