SEX, DRUGS, AND BODY COUNTS: THE POLITICS OF NUMBERS IN GLOBAL CRIME AND CONFLICT

Book ID/图书代码： 03360009B33441

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Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本書揭露了數字如何遭到誤用與曲解，如：在大屠殺中遭殺害的人數、難民逃亡人數

波士尼亞大屠殺至少超過二十萬人民慘遭殺害？
非洲童兵人數達三百萬名？
超過六十五萬人因為美國佔領伊拉克而喪生？
全年每年遭人口販賣的婦女人數約達六十萬到八十萬人？
全球洗錢金額約佔全球GDP的10%？
網路色情每年產值達200億美元之譜？
上述這些數字聽來都很驚人，而且常被政客或媒體拿來引用。
但這些「數字」存在一個問題─這些數字可能是假的…
簡單說，這些數字的最大價值是它的政治意涵與作用，因此常遭媒體或政客用來達到嚇唬人的意圖；過分相信這些數字的真實性，後果是錯誤的決策並帶來意想不到的後果。
有趣的是，這些錯誤數據，時常是發生在全球犯罪與衝突事件上的報導上。譬如：在大屠殺中遭殺害的人數、難民逃亡人數、全球毒品與人口販賣的走私規模等等
在這本書中，政治學者、人類學家、社會學家與政策分析家檢視這些數據的來源，並追蹤這些數字被廣泛應用的層面。他們同時也對衡量打擊恐怖主義份子融資、跨國性交易與毒品買賣上的政策有效性所使用的常見統計衡量方法進行檢視。(KC)

Awards/获奖情况：愛因斯坦：”Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”

亞馬遜：http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Drugs-Body-Counts-Politics/dp/0801448611/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0

Review
’This is a terrific, innovative, and coherent volume that combines the insights of The Wire with outstanding recent scholarship. Puncturing many myths--sometimes uncomfortably so--chapters both systematic and vivid show the dangers of basing public policy on numbers that no one should count on, including exaggerating numbers of victims or, the opposite, deliberately downplaying gross state violations. The authors show how and why unreliable numbers persist, what it takes--politically and methodologically--to develop better estimates, and why it matters. Not uncontroversial, Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts will be of great interest to social scientists, policy wonks, and the wider reading public.’---Lynn Eden, Stanford University

’Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts is terrific. It demonstrates that quantitative misrepresentation is not an idiosyncratic problem but one that is widespread and often detrimental. The authors make sense of the numbers that are thrown around so liberally by interested parties and which so often influence or even determine, important and costly public policies.’---John Mueller, Ohio State University

’Statistics can be like sausages: the more you know about how they re produced, the less appetizing they seem. Each essay in this excellent collection explores how political considerations rework best guesses and stab-in-the-dark estimates into ’hard numbers’ that, in turn, are used to justify international policies on human trafficking, illicit drugs, and warfare. Readers risk losing their complacent confidence in ’what the data show.’’---Joel Best, University of Delaware, author of Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data

’Scoffing at the politicization of numbers in policy debates is now standard fare. This book is the first to move from scoffing to a serious analysis of the process of politicization.’ ---Peter Reuter, University of Maryland College Park

About the Author/作者介绍： Peter Andreas is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Brown University. His books include Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide, now in a second edition, and Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo, both from Cornell.
Kelly M. Greenhill is Assistant Professor of Government at Tufts University and a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. She is author of Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy, also from Cornell.

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