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41 Canadian J. Criminology 535 (1999)
The Pitfalls of Determining Validity by Consensus

handle is hein.journals/cjccj41 and id is 539 raw text is: COMMENTARY COMMENTAIRE The pitfalls of determining validity by consensus Anthony N. Doob Centre of Criminology University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario and Jane B. Sprott The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University New York, N.Y. If 50 to 60 percent of the population of a country ... were to declare their conviction that the death penalty is or could be made such a deterrent, presumably this penalty has some deterrent effect, at least among those who so believe. Leader of the Reform Party, Preston Manning, 1995. In general, the methodological approach taken [in the vari- ous studies just reviewed] had not affected findings regard- ing the deterrent effect of capital punishment: Results have been generally negative whatever the approach taken. Sociologists William C. Bailey and Ruth D. Peterson, 1999. Tom Gabor, in a recent article (Gabor 1999: 388) suggested that in order to determine whether youth crime rates are going up, survey results and the impressions formed by those in close contact with youths (educators, clinicians, school liaison offic- ers) may be instructive. Before we explore our concern about the evidence that he cites to suggest that youth crime is on the increase, we should make it clear where we are in agreement. First, we agree that there are very serious problems in infer- ring anything about 'crime from UCR or youth court statistics. Our argument for the use of these data in our recent paper (Doob Canadian Journal of Criminology 535 to 543 Revue canadienne de criminologie October/octobre 1999

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