The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal JusticeSAGE, 2007 - 479 pages Based on Russell Schutt's Investigating the Social World, the most successful new social research text to have been published in a generation, The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice has been revised and adapted specifically for criminal justice courses and programs. It uniquely helps to teach research design and techniques within the context of substantive criminology and criminal justice issues of interest to students and the field. With expanded coverage of topics like causation, ethics, and qualitative analysis, along with a comprehensive and unique ancillary package, the third edition is a text both students and instructors will appreciate. |
Contents
Science Society and Criminological Research | 3 |
The Social Science Approach | 9 |
Strengths and Limitations of Social Research | 15 |
The Process and Problems of Criminological Research | 33 |
Conclusion | 65 |
Measurement Operations | 78 |
Levels of Measurement | 91 |
Conclusion | 97 |
Historical Secondary | 325 |
Content Analysis | 333 |
Crime Mapping | 340 |
Comparing Research Designs | 350 |
Evaluation Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice | 361 |
Design Decisions | 377 |
Strengths of Randomized Experimental Design in Impact Evaluations | 385 |
Quantitative Data Analysis | 400 |
Sampling | 101 |
Sampling Distributions | 128 |
Conclusion | 136 |
Causal Explanation | 142 |
Experimental Designs | 170 |
Validity in Experiments | 186 |
Survey Research | 205 |
Electronic Surveys | 245 |
Qualitative Methods | 257 |
Participant Observation | 263 |
Developing and Maintaining Relationships | 270 |
Managing the Personal Dimensions | 276 |
Focus Groups | 286 |
Qualitative Data Analysis | 295 |
Alternatives in Qualitative Data Analysis | 308 |
ComputerAssisted Qualitative Data Analysis | 317 |
Displaying Univariate Distributions | 407 |
Summarizing Univariate Distributions | 419 |
Median or Mean? | 425 |
How Not to Lie About Relationships | 443 |
Reporting Research Results | 448 |
The Methodologists ToolchestTM | 454 |
Research Report Types | 463 |
A Bit More on Writing | 469 |
Conclusion | 476 |
Conducting Literature Reviews and Finding Information | A-1 |
Questions to Ask About a Research Article | A-19 |
How to Read a Research Article | C-1 |
Table of Random Numbers | C-33 |
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The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice Ronet Bachman,Russell K. Schutt No preview available - 2007 |
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