Human Rights and Statistics

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Exploring Human Rights Issues with Statistics—Richard P. Claude and Thomas B. Jabine2. The Limitations of Using Quantitative Data in Studying Human Rights Abuses—Robert Justin Goldstein3. Use of Incomplete and Distorted Data in Inference About Human Rights Violations—Douglas A. Samuelson and Herbert F. SpirerIntroduction4. Guidelines for Field Reporting of Basic Human Rights Violations—Randy B. Reiter , M. V. Zunzunegui , and Jose Quiroga5. HURIDOCS Standard Formats as a Tool in the Documentation of Human Rights Violations—Judith Dueck6. The Rights of Collectivities: Principles and Procedures in Measuring the Human Rights Status of Communal and Political Groups—Ted Robert Gurr and Barbara Harff7. Political Rights and Political Liberties in Nations: An Evaluation of Human Rights Measures, 1950 to 1984—Kenneth A. Bollen8. Problems of Concept and Measurement in the Study of Human Rights—George A. Lopez and Michael Stohl9. Human Rights Reporting as a Policy Tool: An Examination of the State Department Country Reports—Judith Eleanor Innes10. Human Rights Reporting in Two Nations: A Comparison of the United States and Norway—Kathleen PritchardIntroduction11. Statistical Evidence of Racial Disparities in Death Sentencing: A Critical Analysis of McCleskey v. Kemp—Glenn Dickinson and William B. Fairley12. A Statistical Analysis of Dutch Human Rights Case Law Manfred Nowak and Herman von Hebel13. An Epidemiology of Homicide: Ningún Nombre Burials in the Province of Buenos Aires from 1970 to 1984—Clyde Collins Snow and Maria Julia Bihurriet14. New Patterns of Oppression: An Updated Analysis of Human Rights Data—David L. Banks15. A Guide to Human Rights Data Sources—Michael Cain , Richard P. Claude , and Thomas B. JabineContributorsIndex

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