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Human Rights and Statistics

Getting the Record Straight
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2016

About this book

Effective human rights advocacy and research require the use of statistics, carefully collected and objectively analyzed and presented, using the best techniques available. Statistics that lack credibility are of little value. Those that can be defended against critics can be effective in throwing the light on violations and promoting the observance of human rights for all.

The contributors to this book, including experts in political science, public health, law, forensic pathology, and statistics, illustrate good statistical practice in the field of human rights and show the importance of collaboration between statisticians and other professionals. The treatment is largely nonmathematical, and the examples provide broad coverage of all features of the collection and use of statistical data on human rights violations. For readers who would like to do their own analyses, an extensive guide to human rights data sources is included.

This book is the first to describe and summarize important issues associated with the collection and uses of human rights statistics.

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"The book as a whole should be very interesting for human rights researchers as well as for statisticians." --- "A marvelous treatment of the difficulties and rewards of social science research. . . . Anyone whose teaching includes social science research methods and methodology should be familiar with this book." --- "An interesting and intelligent volume."

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Contents

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    Preface

    XI
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    Acknowledgments

    XV
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  • Part I. Overview
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    INTRODUCTION

    3
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    Chapter 1. Exploring Human Rights Issues with Statistics

    5
    Richard P. Claude and Thomas B. Jabine
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    Chapter 2. The Limitations of Using Quantitative Data in Studying Human Rights Abuses

    35
    Robert Justin Goldstein
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    Chapter 3. Use of Incomplete and Distorted Data in Inference About Human Rights Violations

    62
    Douglas A. Samuelson and Herbert F. Spirer
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  • Part II. Developing Human Rights Data
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    INTRODUCTION

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  • EVENTS-BASED DATA
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    Chapter 4. Guidelines for Field Reporting of Basic Human Rights Violations

    90
    Randy B. Reiter, M. V. Zunzunegui and Jose Quiroga
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    Chapter 5. HURIDOCS Standard Formats as a Tool in the Documentation of Human Rights Violations

    127
    Judith Dueck
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    Chapter 6. The Rights of Collectivities: Principles and Procedures in Measuring the Human Rights Status of Communal and Political Groups

    159
    Ted Robert Gurr and Barbara Harff
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  • STANDARDS-BASED DATA
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    Chapter 7. Political Rights and Political Liberties in Nations: An Evaluation of Human Rights Measures, 1950 to 1984

    188
    Kenneth A. Bollen
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    Chapter 8. Problems of Concept and Measurement in the Study of Human Rights

    216
    George A. Lopez and Michael Stohl
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  • THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS
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    Chapter 9. Human Rights Reporting as a Policy Tool: An Examination of the State Department Country Reports

    235
    Judith Eleanor Innes
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    Chapter 10. Human Rights Reporting in Two Nations: A Comparison of the United States and Norway

    258
    Kathleen Pritchard
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  • Part III. Analyzing Human Rights Data
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    INTRODUCTION

    285
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    Chapter 11. Statistical Evidence of Racial Disparities in Death Sentencing: A Critical Analysis of McCleskey ν. Kemp

    291
    Glenn Dickinson and William B. Fairley
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    Chapter 12. A Statistical Analysis of Dutch Human Rights Case Law

    313
    Manfred Nowak and Herman von Hebel
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    Chapter 13. An Epidemiology of Homicide: Ningún Nombre Burials in the Province of Buenos Aires from 1970 to 1984

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    Clyde Collins Snow and Maria Julia Bihurriet
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    Chapter 14. New Patterns of Oppression: An Updated Analysis of Human Rights Data

    364
    David L. Banks
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  • DATA SOURCES
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    Chapter 15. A Guide to Human Rights Data Sources

    392
    Michael Cain, Richard P. Claude and Thomas B. Jabine
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    Contributors

    443
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    Index

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    Backmatter

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December 5, 2016
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9781512802863
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Reprint 2016
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https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512802863
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Law; Political Science; Statistics; Human Rights
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
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