Joel Best

Joel Best is Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Damned Lies and Statistics, Flavor of the Month, Stat-Spotting, and Everyone's a Winner and coauthor of The Student Loan Mess.
Ebooks
Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
$20.95
More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues
$29.95
Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data
$20.95
Social Problems: Constructionist Readings
The Satanism Scare
The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem
$26.95
American Nightmares: Social Problems in an Anxious World
$29.95
Random Violence: How We Talk about New Crimes and New Victims
$17.95
Everyone's a Winner: Life in Our Congratulatory Culture
$32.95
Is That True?: Critical Thinking for Sociologists
$24.95
How Claims Spread: Cross-National Diffusion of Social Problems
Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People Fall for Fads
$31.95
Images of Issues: Typifying Contemporary Social Problems
The Stupidity Epidemic: Worrying About Students, Schools, and America’s Future
Images of Issues: Typifying Contemporary Social Problems, Edition 2
Troubling Children: Studies of Children and Social Problems
Just the Facts: Untangling Contradictory Claims
$24.95
Troubling Children: Studies of Children and Social Problems
Uso y Abuso de las Estadísticas: La distorsión en la percepción pública de los problemas sociales y políticos