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Research methods in criminal justice and criminology : an interdisciplinary approach /
Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology is a core text for criminology and criminal justice research methods courses. It strives to offer a general foundation of knowledge that transcends particular topics or subject areas, allowing students to apply research methods and concepts to a m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The scientific method and criminal justice and criminology as social sciences
- 2. Formulating scientific questions and locating background research
- 3. Univariate statistics and the concept of statistical significance
- 4. Bivariate and multivariate statistics : the concept of correlation
- 5. Research report structure and styles for citing and referencing
- 6. Reliability, validity, and precision in measurement
- 7. Surveying and sampling
- 8. The human side of sampling and the reliability of self-reports
- 9. Data based on self-reports : guidelines for constructing questionnaires
- 10. Direct observations : qualitative and quantitative data
- 11. Archival data analysis and meta-analysis
- 12. Measuring crime and criminality
- 13. Theories, models, hypotheses, and empirical reality
- 14. Controlled experimentation
- 15. Quasi-experimentation
- 16. Ethical issues in social and behavioral science research
- 17. Evaluation and other applied research
- 18. Epilogue
- App. A. The American Psychological Association referencing style
- App. B. Guidelines and recommendations for preparing research reports
- App. C. Guidelines for professional writing in the social and behavioral sciences.