Citation

Blumstein A. J. Quant. Criminol. 2010; 26(4): 549-561.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10940-010-9122-6

PMID

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Abstract

I am honored to have been invited to participate with the editors of JQC to join in the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Journal. I think I got called on because I probably have had the longest opportunity to observe the dramatic growth in bringing quantitative analysis to criminology.My involvement started in 1966 when I was invited to lead the Task Force on Science and Technology for the President's Crime Commission.The Commission was known officially as the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice. The Commission's report, The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society and the Task Force Report: Science and Technology were issued in 1967. That was quite a challenge for someone who had an undergraduate degree in engineering physics and a PhD in operations research who protested that he knew nothing about crime or criminal justice, but accepted that risky invitation with the assurance that the Commission had lots of people around who had that experti...

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