A New Quantitative Criminology Manifesto: Evidence Based Criminal Justice Policymaking

Abstract

The Institute for the Rule of Law together with Centre for Strategic Research has written “A New Quantitative Criminology Manifesto: Evidence Based Criminal Justice Policymaking”. This paper stresses the importance of new technologies and approaches to data analysis in criminology research geared toward evidence-based policymaking. This manifesto demonstrates how quantitative methods can be used to get new insights into the nature of crime and the formulation of Russian criminal justice policy.