The practice of research in criminology and criminal justice. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ronet Bachman, Russell K. Schutt.
• Authors: Bachman, Ronet; Schutt, Russell K
• Contents: Chapter 1: Science, Society, and Criminological Research; Reasoning About the Social World; The Social Science Approach; Social Research Philosophies; Quantitative and Qualitative Methods; Specific Types of Research Methods; Strengths and Limitations of Social Research; Chapter 2: The Process and Problems of Criminology Research; Criminological Research Questions; Social Research Foundations; The Role of Theory; Social Research Strategies; Social Research Standards; Chapter 3: Research Ethics; Historical Background; Ethical Principles; Research Involving Special Populations: Prisoners and Children; Case Studies: Sexual Solicitation of Adolescents and Milgram Revisted; Chapter 4: Conceptualization and Measurement; Concepts; Case Study: Defining Youth Gangs; Case Study: Defining Substance Abuse; Case Study: Defining Poverty; Case Study: Defining Inmate Misconduct<br /> Variables and Levels of Measurement; Did We Measure What We Wanted to Measure?; Chapter 5: Sampling; Sample Planning; Sampling Methods; Sampling Distributions; Chapter 6: Causation and Research Design; Causal Explanation; Criteria and Caustions for Nomothetic Causal Explanations; Case Study: Media Violence and Violent Behavior; Research Designs and Causality; Case Study: Using Life Calendars: Do Offenders Specialize in Different Crimes?; Case Study: Offending Over the Life Course; Case Studies: Gender, Social Conrol, and Crime; Units of Analysis and Errors in Causal Reasoning; Chapter 7: Experimental Designs; History of Experiments; True Experiments; Case Study: Prison Classification and Inmate Behavior; Case Study: The Effect of Incarceration on Employment; Quasi-Experiments; Case Study: The Effectiveness of Drug Courts; Case Study: The Effects of the Youth Criminal Justice Act; Case Study: Reduced Caseload and Intensive Supervision in Probation; Case Study: Does an Arrest Increase Delinquency?; Validity in Experiments; Factorial Survey Design; Case Study: How Citizens View Police Misconduct; Ethical Issues in Experimental Research; Chapter 8: Survey Research; Survey Research in the Social Sciences; Questionnaire Development; Case Study: Measuring Violent Victimizations; Writing Survey Questions; Organization of the Questionnaire; The Cover Letter<br /> Survey Designs; Ethical Issues in Survey Research; Chapter 9: Qualitative Methods: Observing, Participating, and Listening; Fundamentals of Qualitative Methods; Case Study: Life in a Gang; Participant Observation; Case Study: The Researcher as Hooligan; Systematic Observation; Case Study: Studying Public Disorder and Crime; Intensive Interviewing; Case Study: Jurors’ Stories of Death; Focus Groups; Case Study: An Analysis of Police Searches; Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research; Analyzing Content: Secondary Data Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Crime Mapping, and Big Data; Analyzing Secondary Data; Case Study: Police Protection by Neighborhood; Comparative Methods; Case Study: Homicide Across Nations; Content Analysis; Case Study: Media Portrayals of Abducted Children; Crime Mapping; Case Study: Social Disorganization and the Chicago School; Case Study: Gang Homicides in St. Louis; Case Study: Using Google Earth to Track Sexual Offending Recidivism; Big Data; Case Study: Predicting Where Crime Will Occur; Case Study: Predicting Recidivism With Big Data; Methodological Issues When Using Secondary Data; Ethical Issues When Analyzing Available Data and Content; Chapter 11: Evaluation Research; A Brief History of Evaluation Research; Evaluation Basics; Questions fo Evaluation Research; Case Study: Family Justice Center Initiative; Case Study: Process Evaluation of an Anti-Gang Initiative; Case Study: How Does the Risk Skills Training Program (RSTP) Compare to D.A.R.E.?; Case Study: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Therapeutic Communities; Design Decisions; Evaluation in Action; Case Study: Problem-Oriented Policing in Violent Crime Areas—A Randomized Controlled Experiment; Quasi-Experimental Designs in Evaluation Research; Case Study: Decreasing Injuries from Police Use-of-Force; Case Study: Drinking and Homicide in Eastern Europe; Nonexperimental Designs; Case Study: Vocational Education for Serious Juvenile Offenders—A One-Shot Design; Qualitative and Quantitative Methods; Policy Research: Increasing Demand for Evidence-Based Policy; Basic Science or Applied Research; Ethics in Evaluation; Chapter 12: Mixing and Comparing Methods; What Are Mixed Methods?; Case Study of Convergent Parallel Design: School Security and Discipline; Case Study of Exploratory Sequential Design: American Indian Homicide; Case Study of Embedded Design: Investigating Rape; Strengths and Limitations of Mixed Methods; Types of Mixed Methods Designs; Comparing Results Across Studies; Case Study of Meta-Analysis: The Effectiveness of Anti-Bullying Programs; Case Study of Meta-Analysis: Do Parent Training Programs Prevent Child Abuse?; Case Study of Meta-Synthesis: Female Drug Dealers; Ethics and Mixed Methods; Chapter 13: Quantitative Data Analysis; Introducing Statistics; Case Study: The Causes of Delinquency; Preparing Data for Analysis; Displaying Univariate Distributions; Summarizing Univariate Distributions; Cross-Tabulating Variables; Regression and Correlation; Analyzing Data Ethically: How Not to Lie About Relationships; Chapter 14: Analyzing Qualitative Data; Features of Qualitative Data Analysis; Qualitative Compared With Quantitave Data AnalysisAlternatives in Qualitative Data Analysis; Techniques of Qualitative Data Analysis; Alternatives in Qualitative Data Analysis; Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis; Case Study: Narratives of Desistance from Crime and Substance Abuse; Ethics in Qualitative Data Analysis; Chapter 15: Reporting Research Results; Research Report Goals; Case Study: Seeking Higher Education for Inmates; On Writing Research; Research Report Types; Displaying Research; Special Considerations for Reporting Qualitative or Mixed-Methods Research; Ethics, Politics, and Reporting Research; Plagiarism; Appendix A: Questions to Ask About a Research Article; Appendix B: How to Read a Research Article;
• Edition: Sixth edition
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 364.072; Criminology -- Research; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Research
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781506306834
• Related ISBNs: 9781506306810
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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