Richard Tewksbury, Elizabeth Ehrhardt Mustaine

Controversies in Criminal Justice Research

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book of original essays presents students with challenging looks at some of the most basic, and sometimes most difficult, decisions faced by criminal justice researchers. Each chapter presents an overview of a foundational question/issue in the conduct of research, and discussions of the options to resolve these controversies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781138156098
• ISBN-10: 1138156094
• Artikelnr.: 69992295

Autorenporträt

Tewksbury, Richard; Ehrhardt Mustaine, Elizabeth

Inhaltsangabe

Introductory Chapters 1. Should (Does) Criminal Justice Research Influence
Social Policy? 2. The Value of Purely Theoretical Research vs. More
"Practical" Research 3. How to Know if a Piece of Research Is Good/Valuable
Quantitative Methods 4. Methodological Yin and Yang: Value of Qualitative
and Quantitative Research in Social Science 5. Original vs. Secondary Data
Collection: The New Dilemma for Research 6. Does Theory Really Guide Survey
Research? Why Is Theory Important in Surveys? 7. Macro and Micro Research
Aproaches: Which Makes More Sense? Qualitative Methods 8. Getting In and
Getting On: Entrée Strategies and the Importance of Trust and Rapport in
Qualitative Research 9. Interviews as Data Collection Method: But, Which
Type Should I Use? 10. Validity of Participant Observational Data/Research
11. Utility of Case Studies