A random walk in the literature on criminality: a partial and critical view on some statistical analysis and modeling approaches Mirta B. Gordon To cite this version: Mirta B. Gordon. A random walk in the literature on criminality: a partial and critical view on some statistical analysis and modeling approaches. 2009. <hal-00404405v1> HAL Id: hal-00404405 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00404405v1 Submitted on 16 Jul 2009 (v1), last revised 3 Jan 2010 (v2) HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- entific research documents, whether they are pub- lished or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destin´ ee au d´ epˆ ot et ` a la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publi´ es ou non, ´ emanant des ´ etablissements d’enseignement et de recherche fran¸cais ou ´ etrangers, des laboratoires publics ou priv´ es.