Envisioning criminology : researchers on research as a process of discovery /: researchers on research as a process of discovery. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael D Maltz, Stephen K. Rice, editors ; foreword by Alfred C. Blumstein.
• Editors: Maltz, Michael D; Rice, Stephen K
• Contents: Foreword Alfred Blumstein -- Chapter 1: Introduction Michael D. Maltz and Stephen K. Rice -- Section 1:Voices from the Street -- Chapter 2: A Conversation with Street Daddy: Pulling Back the Curtain on Twenty Years of Ethnography Scott H. Decker and Dietrich Lester Smith -- Chapter 3: Warping Time and Space: What It Really Takes too do Action Research in Crime Control David Kennedy -- Chapter 4: Observations on the Making of a Police Officer Peter Moskos -- Chapter 5: Cure Violence -- Treating Violent Behavior as a Contagious Disease Gary Slutkin, Charles Ransford and R. Brent Decker -- Chapter 6: Why Criminals Tell Us the Truth Sudhir Venkatesh -- Section 2: Generating New Data -- Chapter 7: Gender & Sexuality as Methodological Confounds in the Study of Transgender Prisoners Valerie Jenness -- Chapter 8: Come Along and Ride on a Fantastic Voyage': My Journey through Rap Music Lyrics Charis E. Kubrin -- Chapter 9: Getting Emotional Stephen K. Rice -- Chapter 10: The Making of the Chicago Project Robert J. Sampson -- Chapter 11: Surveying Police Officers Wesley G. Skogan -- Section 3: Mining Records -- Chapter 12: Criminology, Terrorism and Serendipity Gary LaFree -- Chapter 13: Playing in the Sandbox: A Methodological Conversation Nicole Rafter and Amy Farrell -- Chapter 14: Getting Things Wrong Really Does Help, as Long as You Keep Trying to Get Things Right: Developing Theories about Why Homicide Rates Rise and Fall Randolph Roth -- Chapter 15: Twists, Turns and Tears on the Path to the Cycle of Violence Cathy Spatz Widom -- Section 4: Analyses of Existing Data -- Chapter 16: Research Adventures with 'Kinda Big' Data: Using NIBRS to Study Crime Lynn A. Addington -- Chapter 17: Elusive Facts about Gun Violence: Where Good Surveys Go Bad Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig -- Chapter 18: Solving Criminological Puzzles Kenneth C. Land -- Chapter 19: Upon Becoming a Criminologist ... And Spending 30 Years Thinking about Interesting Things Pamela K. Lattimore -- Chapter 20: The Devil is in the Details: Crime and Victimization Research with the National Crime Victimization Survey Janet L. Lauritsen -- Chapter 21: What's the Question? Ask That and You Will Follow the Path of Discovery Alex R. Piquero -- Chapter 22: Predicting Risk: Who Knew It Was Such a Risky Business? Susan Turner -- Section 5: Visual and Geographical Tools -- Chapter 23: Systems Modeling to Inform Drug Policy: A Personal Odyssey Jonathan P. Caulkins -- Chapter 24: Practitioner to Academic: An Interdisciplinary View from both Sides of the Looking Glass Elizabeth R. Groff -- Chapter 25: I Want You to Wear Something for Me': On the In Situ Measurement of Police Stress and the Potential Rewards of Channeling One's Inner Experimentalist Matthew J. Hickman -- Chapter 26: Sometimes Pictures Tell the Story Michael D. Maltz -- Chapter 27: Rounding Up Twice the Usual Number of Suspects D. Kim Rossmo -- Chapter 28: Small Worlds of Crime and Criminal Justice Interventions: Discovering Crime Hot Spots David Weisburd.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxvi, 271 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 364.072; Criminology; Criminology -- Research; Criminology -- Research; Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency; Social Welfare & Social Work; Social Sciences; Social Science -- Methodology; Social Science -- Statistics; Social research & statistics; Social sciences -- Methodology; Statistics; Social Science -- Criminology; Crime & criminology; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319158686; 3319158686; 3319158678; 9783319158679
• Related ISBNs: 9783319158679
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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