""Armed and Considered Dangerous" is a book about "bad guys" and their guns. But Wright and Rossi contend that for every suspected criminal who owns and abuses a firearm, a hundred or more average citizens own guns for sport, for recreation, for self-protection, and for other reasons generally regarded as appropriate or legitimate. "Armed and Considered Dangerous" is the most ambitious survey ever undertaken of criminal acquisition, poss ..."
"The research reported in this volume was designed to provide estimates of the extent of damages and injuries from certain natu ral hazards inflicted on households in the United States. In addi tion, it reports on sources of aid proffered to households and the extent to which there are differences among households in the receipt of help. This volume represents the latest installment in a series of monographs stemming from the Social an ..."
Feminist Papers(2nd Edition) From Adams to De Beauvoir by Alice S. Rossi Paperback, 736 Pages, Published 1974 by Bantam Usa Import ISBN-13: 978-0-553-12308-1, ISBN: 0-553-12308-4
"This book is divided into three parts. Part 1 provides a general background for what follows; it includes both a discussion of the substantive importance of dynamic analyses is sociology and a review of models and methods previously used by sociologists interested in the empirical study of social dynamics. Part 2 contains eight chapters on models and methods for analyzing change in qualitative outcomes; it concentrates mainly on methods ..."
"Applying Heise and Bohrnstedt's (1970) model, in which they adopt Lord and
Novick's definition of reliability as the ratio of true score to observed variance, to (
3.46) yields their estimate of reliability, called Q. Specifically - X'.1V(y) – X-IV(y)h:
#-l X'-1C(yi, yj) where h is the communality" of item i. Although it is easy to
demonstrate that Q is a better estimate of reliability than Cronbach's (1951) a (
Greene & Carmines, 19 ..."