Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology

ISBN: 9781285067841 出版年：2014 页码：498 Michael G Maxfield Earl R Babbie Cengage

PART ONE: AN INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE INQUIRY. 1. Crime, Criminal Justice, and Scientific Inquiry. 2. Theory and Criminal Justice Research. 3. Causation and Validity. PART TWO: STRUCTURING CRIMINAL JUSTICE INQUIRY. 4. General Issues in Research Design. 5. Concepts , Operationalization, and Measurement. 6. Measuring Crime. 7. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs. 8. Ethics and Criminal Justice Research. PART THREE: MODES OF OBSERVATION. 9. Overview of Data Collections and Sampling. 10. Survey Research and Other Ways of Asking Questions. 11. Field Research. 12. Agency Records, Content Analysis, and Secondary Data. PART FOUR: PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER. 13. Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 14. Interpreting Data. 15. Pulling It All Together: Annotated Examples. Appendixes: A. Using the Library: Traditional and Computer-Based Information Sources. B. National Criminal Justice Reference Service. C. The Research Report. D. Sources of Secondary Data. E. Distribution of Chi Square.