Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts: The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict [Paperback]

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'If you're a journalist, a gluttonous consumer of news, or are easily swayed through the slapdash, stop what you're doing and go obtain a copy of Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts: The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict. Set aside a handful of hours tonight to read three or four of the essays that academics Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill collected in it. Then, sit down looking at your computer and send me an e-mail by way of thanking me for assisting to end your enslavement for the dodgy numbers that taint journalism and public policy. It is not only a good book. It's an incredible book. And it belongs forever on your bookshelf.'--Â Jack Shafer, Slate, 14 July 2010
'Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts is terrific. It demonstrates that quantitative misrepresentation just isn't an idiosyncratic problem but one that's widespread and often detrimental. The authors sound right of the numbers which can be thrown around so liberally by interested parties and which usually influence and even determine, important and costly public policies.'--John Mueller, Ohio State University

'Statistics could be like sausages: the greater you know about how exactly 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: An Industry Guide to Identifying Dubious Data

'This is often 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 risks of basing public policy on numbers that nobody should count on, including exaggerating amounts of victims or, the opposite, deliberately downplaying gross state violations. The authors show how and why unreliable numbers persist, exactly what it takes--politically and methodologically--to develop better estimates, and why it matters. Not uncontroversial, Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts will probably be of great interest to social scientists, policy wonks, and the wider reading public.'--Lynn Eden, Stanford University

'Scoffing at the politicization of numbers in policy debates is now standard fare. This book could be the first to advance from scoffing to your serious analysis with the procedure for politicization.' -- --Peter Reuter, University of Maryland College Park

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 the second edition, and Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Company of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo, both from Cornell.

Kelly M. Greenhill is Assistant Professor of Government at Tufts University along with a Research Fellow in 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.