Full Description
Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Methods, 2e is a rigorous yet engaging text that offers balanced coverage of contemporary research methods. Filled with criminal justice and criminology examples, it demonstrates how research is relevant to the field and what tools are needed to actually conduct that research. Streamlined in this edition, it offers distinct coverage of qualitative research and quantitative research. With its real-life examples and cutting-edge content, the text goes beyond the nuts and bolts to teach students how to competently critique as well as create research-based knowledge.
Contents
Part One1. Criminal Justice and Criminology Research: Mapping the Terrain 2. The Nature of Science and Research 3. Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations 4. The Ethics and Politics of Crime and Justice Research 5. Research Design and Measurement 6. Sampling in Crime and Justice ResearchPart Three: QUANTITATIVE DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS 7. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Crime and Justice Research 8. Survey and Interview Methods 9. Nonreactive Research: Content Analysis and Existing Documents/Statistics 10. Analysis of Quantitative Data Part Four: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH, MIXED METHODS, AND PRESENTING RESEARCH 11. The Nature of Qualitative Research 12. Crime and Justice Ethnographic Field Research13. Historical, Academic Legal, and Mixed Methods Research14. Presenting Crime and Justice Research
