Public Values and Private Power in American Politics.J. David Greenstone
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 88, Heft 6, S. 1297-1299
ISSN: 1537-5390
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In: The American journal of sociology, Band 88, Heft 6, S. 1297-1299
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Review of radical political economics, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 62-67
ISSN: 1552-8502
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 66, Heft 4, S. 381-382
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Criminology: the official publication of the American Society of Criminology, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 177-188
ISSN: 1745-9125
Abstract The calculus of probability constitutes an elegant formal model for the various questions of prediction in criminology. However, the use of this model has been criticized for its failure to deal with individual instances vis‐à‐vis group phenomena. It has been argued that since probability is a function of classes or sequence of events, no meaning can be attached to the probability of a single event. This paper presents a logical analysis of this aspect of probability and prediction. The proposal of logical probability is suggested as a meaningful explication of the prediction and the probability of a single event.