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Michael D. MaltzPh.D. (Electrical Engineering), Stanford University, 1963 |
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University of Illinois at Chicago (Emeritus since 2002) e-mail: mikem@uic.edu
Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology and Senior Research Scientist, Criminal Justice Research Center The Ohio State University email: mdm@sociology.osu.edu |
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Photo by Marcia Farr |
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Other Affiliations: |
Adjunct Professor, Department of Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, since 1984
Visiting Fellow, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1995 - 2000 Fulbright Scholar, El Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Michoacán, fall 1995 Editor, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 1996 - 2000 Visiting Professor, Northeastern University College of Criminal Justice, winter/spring 1997 Research Advisory Committee, Police Foundation, since 1997 Senior Research Associate, Criminal
Justice Research Center, Ohio State University, since 2002; Adjunct
Professor of Sociology, OSU,
since 2003. |
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Research Interests: |
My primary professional interest has been focused on making valid and useful inferences from data. More specifically, I am concerned with ensuring that the inferences are not attributable to biases in the data used, nor to the way they were collected, nor to the methods used to analyze them. Earlier in my career this led to the development of mathematical models of various criminal processes (recidivism, cigarette smuggling, collusion among bidders). More recently, I have directed my attention toward the visualization of data as a means of inferring patterns from the data. This has led to projects in crime mapping and in other graphical representations of crime data. In particular, I have been working on methods to graphically portray trajectories of the life courses of individuals and organizations. An offshoot of this interest has been a strong concern about the validity of the crime data used by researchers to make inferences. This has led to in-depth analyses of the way crime data are collected and aggregated, and how missing data are dealt with. Current projects include developing better methods of imputing to fill in for missing crime data.
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Selected recent publications: |
"A Note on the Use of County-Level UCR Data" (with Joseph Targonski), Journal of Quantitative Criminology, September 2002, pp. 297-318. Available in .pdf format [NB: its size is 1062 KB] by clicking on the title. Lott & Whitley took issue with this article, also published in JQC; our response to their article is found in "Measurement and Other Errors in County-Level UCR Data: A Reply to Lott and Whitley," Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 19, No. 2, June 2003, pp. 199-206. Available in .pdf format [NB: its size is 83 KB] by clicking on the title.
"Crime
and Justice" (with Arnold Barnett and Jonathan Caulkins). In Carl M. Harris and Saul I. Gass,
Eds., Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts, 2001.
"Visualizing
Lives: New Pathways for Analyzing Life Course Trajectories," Journal of
Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 255-281, June 2000.
Available in .pdf format [NB: its size is 405 KB] by clicking on the
title.
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Books & Monographs: |
Mapping Crime in Its Community
Setting: Event Geography Analysis, (with Andrew C. Gordon and Warren
Friedman), Springer-Verlag, New York, 1991. Out of print: now available
in .pdf format [NB: its size is 405 KB] from the
UIC Library website. Measuring the Effectiveness of Organized
Crime Control Efforts
(monograph), OICJ Publications, Huntsville Texas, 1990.
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Software: |
SURFIT (388 KB)is a DOS-based software package that does survival analysis, slightly differently than the standard methods. The zipped file contains programs, examples, and a manual written in 1989 (now in .pdf format). No guarantees are made as to its ease of use, but it does the job. |
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Revised 7/04 |
