Kim A Logio, George W Dowdall, Earl R Babbie, Frederick S Halley

Adventures in Criminal Justice Research

Data Analysis Using SPSS 15.0 and 16.0 for Windows

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Produktbeschreibung

This text is an ideal supplement to any research methods in criminal justice textbook. Used primarily in lab settings, this text teaches students how to analyze issues and use SPSS for criminal justice research. The text explains to students, with the aid of step-by-step instructions in over 150 Windows screen shots, how to conduct and analyze their own surveys, comparing data collected with national data. Recent GSS data sets, including 2000 Census data, and the Public Health College Alcohol Survey, are utilized and available on a bundled CD.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kasturi Vijayam
• 4th edition
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 278mm x 216mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781412963510
• ISBN-10: 1412963516
• Artikelnr.: 23486481

Autorenporträt

Kim A. Logio is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Saint Joseph¿s University in Philadelphia. She teaches research methods for sociology and criminal justice students. She is actively involved in research on victims of juvenile crime and adolescent body image.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Authors
Preface for Instructors
Part I: Preparing for Criminal Justice Research
Chapter 1: Theory, Measurement, and Research Development
1.1 Research in Criminal Justice
1.2 Theory in Criminal Justice: Routine Activity Theory
1.3 Hypotheses in Criminal Justice Research
1.4 Should Abortion Be Legal?
1.5 Crime, Punishment, and Violence
1.6 The Logic of Measurement
1.7 Validity Problems
1.8 Reliability Problems
1.9 Multiple Indicators
1.10 Level of Measurement
1.11 Units of Analysis
1.12 Summary
Chapter 2: Criminal Justice Data Sets
2.1 Primary and Secondary Data Analysis
2.2 Description of a Data Set: The General Social Survey
2.3 Sampling: How Representative Are Your Data?
2.4 Data Collection
2.5 General Social Survey Variables
2.6 Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study
2.7 Other Criminal Justice Data Sets Available on the Web
2.8 Downloading Data from the Internet
2.9 Your Own Criminal Justice Survey
2.10 Summary
Chapter 3: Using SPSS
3.1 Using SPSS to Open Existing Data Sets
3.2 Learning More: The Windows Tutorial
3.3 Creating Your Own Data Set
3.4 Coding Your Data
3.5 Entering Your Data
3.6 Using Published Criminal Justice Data
3.7 Summary
Part II: Univariate Analysis
Chapter 4: Describing a Variable
4.1 A Graphic View
4.2 Measuring Central Tendency and Dispersion
4.3 Modifying Variables With Recode
4.4 Practicing Recodes
4.5 Saving Your Work
4.6 Summary
Chapter 5: Working With Variables
5.1 Political Views: Liberalism Versus Conservatism
5.2 Political Policy Affiliation
5.3 Gun Laws and Capital Punishment
5.4 Understanding Binge Drinking
5.5 Other Survey Items About Crime and Justice
5.6 Crime and Justice Data for the American States
5.7 Summary
Chapter 6: Creating Composite Measures
6.1 Using Crosstabs
6.2 Combining Two Items in an Index
6.3 Checking to See How the Index Works
6.4 Creating a More Complex Index With Count
6.5 Creating the FBI Crime Index
6.6 "Secondhand Binge Effects": Creating an Index
6.7 Summary
Part III: Bivariate Analysis
Chapter 7: Investigating the Correlates of Binge Drinking and Attitudes
Toward Gun Control and Capital Punishment: Independent Versus Dependent
Variables
7.1 Moving Beyond Description: Comparing Two Variables
7.2 Comparing Binge Drinking and Gender
7.3 Examining Binge Drinking and Race
7.4 Continuing the Analysis: Binge Drinking and Religiosity
7.5 The Impact of the Minimum Purchase Law: Bingeing and Age
7.6 Political Orientation, Guns, and Capital Punishment: Independent Versus
Dependent Variables
7.7 The Relationship Between POLVIEWS and PARTYID
7.8 Age and Politics
7.9 Religion and Politics
7.10 Gender and Politics
7.11 Race, Class, and Politics
7.12 Education and Politics
7.13 Martial Status and Politics
7.14 Gun Laws and Capital Punishment
7.15 Summary
Chapter 8: Measures of Association
8.1 Lambda
8.2 Gamma
8.3 Pearson¿s r, the Correlation Coefficient
8.4 Regression
8.5 Summary
Chapter 9: The Existence, Strength, and Direction of an Association
9.1 Chi-Square
9.2 t-Tests
9.3 Analysis of Variance
9.4 Summary
Part IV: Multivariate Analysis
Chapter 10: Examining Several Independent Variables
10.1 Age, Sex, and Religiosity
10.2 Family Status and Religiosity
10.3 Social Class and Religiosity
10.4 Other Variables to Explore
10.5 Multiple Linear Regression
10.6 Summary
Chapter 11: Exploring What Shapes Attitudes About Guns and Capital
Punishment
11.1 Political Philosophy and Party Identification
11.2 The Mystery of Politics and Marital Status
11.3 Guns and Capital Punishment
11.4 Summary
Chapter 12: Logistic Regression: Understanding College Student Drug and
Alcohol Abuse
12.1 Binge Drinking: A Dichotomous Dependent Variable
12.2 The Odds Ratio: Gender and Binge Drinking
12.3 Using SPSS for Windows Student Version for the Odds Ratio
12.4 Logistic Regression in SPSS for Windows
12.5 Multiple Logistic Regression
12.6 Summary
Appendix A: How to Read a Research Article
Appendix B: College Alcohol Study Questionnaire (on the Student Study Site)
Appendix C: Chapter Review Quizzes and Independent Projects (on the Student
Study Site)
Appendix D: Answers to Chapter Review Quizzes (on the Student Study Site)
References and Suggested Readings
Glossary/Index