Basics of research methods for criminal justice and criminology
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Belmont, California :
Wadsworth/Cengage Learning ,
c2012
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| Edition: | 3rd ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Criminal justice and scientific inquiry
- 2. Ethics and criminal justice research
- 3. General issues in research design
- 4. Concepts, operationalization, and measurement
- 5. Experimental and quasi-experimental designs
- 6. Sampling
- 7. Survey research and other ways of asking questions
- 8. Field research
- 9. Agency records, content analysis, and secondary data
- 10. Evaluation research and problem analysis
- 11. Interpreting data