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Table of Contents:

• An introduction to criminal justice inquiry
• Crime, criminal justice, and scientific inquiry
• Theory and criminal justice research
• Ethics and criminal justice research
• Structuring criminal justice inquiry
• General issues in research design
• Concepts, operationalization, and measurement
• Measuring crime
• Experimental and quasi-experimental designs
• Modes of observation
• Sampling
• Survey research and other ways of asking questions
• Field research
• Agency records, content analysis, and secondary data
• Application and analysis
• Evaluation research and problem analysis
• Interpreting data.

Author/Creator:

Maxfield, Michael G.

Contributors:

Babbie, Earl R.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Research methods for criminal justice and criminology [by Maxfield, M.G.]

Subjects:

Criminal justice, Administration of — Research — Methodology

Criminology — Research — Methodology

Criminal justice, Administration of

Criminology

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-473) and indexes.

Physical Description:

xix, 488 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

HV7419.5 .M38 2011

ISBNs:

9780495811695
0495811696
9780495094760
0495094765

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2010927231

OCLC Numbers:

733045181