Criminological research for beginners a student's guide
[This book] is a comprehensive and engaging guide to research methods in Criminology. Written specifically for undergraduate students and novice researchers, this book has been designed as a practical guide to planning, conducting, and reporting research in the subject. By first inviting readers to...
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Routledge
2014
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Table of Contents:
- Part One: The Importance of Criminological Research
- 1. Context: power, knowledge, and politics
- 2. Significance: the importance of criminological research
- 3. Ethics in criminological research
- Part Two: Getting Going with Criminological Research
- 4. Planning: Where do research ideas come from?
- 5. Critiquing the literature: What do we know already?
- 6. The relationship between theories and methods
- 7. Preparing for the practical challenges of real-world crime research
- Part Three: Doing Criminological Research: Data Collection
- 8. Conducting interviews and focus groups
- 9. Ethnography, case studies, and life-history approaches
- 10. Questionnaires and surveys
- 11. Using secondary data sources
- Part Four: Doing Criminological Research: Analysis and writing-up
- 12. Analysing the data: Quantitative analysis
- 13. Analysing the data: Qualitative analysis
- 14. Analysing the data: Documents, images, and other data
- 15. Writing-up criminological research.