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Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Introduction
• What are 'criminological methods'?
• 'Real' research
• Is researching crime and justice criminology?
• What are criminological research methods?
• If this is criminology, what is research?
• How and why to research?
• Who or what to research?
• What is criminological about certain types of research?
• What happens in 'real life' research?
• Organisation of the book
• Introduction
• Choosing and using research methods
• Is this criminology?
• Types of research methods
• How to choose methods that fit
• Researching the 'truth' about rape
• Reliability
• Validity
• science of research methods

• Conclusion
• Introduction
• What are quantitative criminological methods?
• Primary and secondary data
• Interrogating official statistics
• Interview with John Muncie
• Critiquing government statistics
• Summary of secondary quantitative data methods
• Primary data research
• Summary of primary data research
• Conclusion
• Introduction
• Versions of qualitative research
• Interviews
• Interview with Ben Bowling
• Interview with Laura Piacentini
• Focus groups
• Mixed methods
• Interview with Sandra Walklate
• Interview with Lynn Hancock
• Conclusion
• Introduction
• Ethnography
• Insider/outsider research
• Interview with Rob Hornsby
• Interview with Simon Winlow
• Conclusion
• Introduction
• Research ethics
• Ethical restrictions on criminological research
• Crime and justice specific ethics?
• politics of researching crime and justice
• Emotions
• Danger in the research process
• Conclusion
• Introduction
• What the interviewees said
• Analysing evidence
• Theoretical concerns
• short guide to criminological theories
• themes that have arisen from the interviews
• writing up process
• Conclusion.

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Author/Creator:

Westmarland, Louise

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Researching crime and justice: tales from the field [by Westmarland, L.]

Subjects:

Criminology — Research — Methodology

Criminal justice, Administration of — Research — Methodology

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HV6024.5 .W47 2011eb

ISBNs:

9780203824016 (electronic bk.)
0203824016 (electronic bk.)
9781843923176 [Invalid]
1843923173 [Invalid]
9781843923169 [Invalid]
1843923165 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

774284297

Other Control Numbers:

EBC684092 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp7244920