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Summary:

Research should be enjoyable, whether it is a college student completing a project for a degree or a professor meeting requirements or expectations associated with his or her position. Learning the basics for conducting research is the first step. This text is a reader-friendly primer that has as its strength the facility to positively and gently ease the reader into the task of conducting research.

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Section I. Functions. 1. Research : what, why, and how
• 2. The language of research
• 3. Getting started
• 4. Research ethics
• 5. Qualitative research
• 6. Quantitative research
• Section II. Procedures. 7. Research designs
• 8. Questionnaire construction
• 9. Sampling
• 10. Data collection
• Section III. Final steps. 11.Data processing and analysis
• 12. Inferential statistics
• 13. Writing the research
• 14. Summing up
• Index.

Author/Creator:

Dantzker, Mark L., 1958-

Contributors:

Hunter, Ronald D.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Research methods for criminology and criminal justice: a primer [by Dantzker, M.L.]

Related Series:

Criminal justice illuminated

Subjects:

Criminology — Research — Methodology

Criminal justice, Administration of — Research — Methodology

Criminology

Criminal justice, Administration of

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xvii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Call Numbers:

HV6024.5 .D36 2006

ISBNs:

0763736155 (hardcover)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2005024821

OCLC Numbers:

61456552