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The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice Ronet D. Bachman

The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice By Ronet D. Bachman

The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice by Ronet D. Bachman

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This sixth edition has been fully updated with new coverage of qualitative data analysis, and featuring new examples, exercise questions, data sets and SPSS and Excel exercises, to continue to provide students with the full toolbox needed to evaluate and conduct research

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The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice Summary

The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice by Ronet D. Bachman

This sixth edition continues to demonstrate the vital role research plays by integrating in-depth, real-world case studies with a comprehensive discussion of research methods. By pairing research techniques with practical examples from the field, the authors equip students to evaluate and conduct research. Covering research findings from critical areas in criminal justice, such as police use of force, cybercrime, and race, this text helps students understand the importance of research, not just the process.

The Sixth Edition of this best-selling text retains the strengths of previous editions while breaking ground with emergent research methods, enhanced tools for learning in the text and online, and contemporary, fascinating research findings. Students engage with the wide realm of research methods available to them, delve deeper into topics relevant to their field of study, and benefit from the wide variety of new exercises to help them practice as they learn.

This edition is accompanied by an Edge site: edge.sagepub.com/bachmanprccj6e

New to this edition:

  • New real-world research examples including the effects of incarceration on employment, the effects of police wearing body cameras on police and citizen injury, the perceptions of citizens regarding police misconduct, and an investigation into the lives of gang members.
  • A new chapter on qualitative data analysis summarizes the different techniques using a case study of interviews with drug-involved offenders.
  • Updated Research in the News boxes feature the latest media stories which have made an impact both on researchers and practitioners
  • New Careers and Research profiles highlight the relevance of research in today's job market
  • New end-of-chapter exercise questions refer students to a chapter-specific video posted on the Study Site, in which researchers discuss their experiences with a method presented in that chapter.
  • New empirical data sets featured on the Study Site give students access to new subsets of data
  • New SPSS and Excel exercises that correspond to the chapter material provide students with extra practice of the research methods being explained.

The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice Reviews

This is my primary text and because the book is both comprehensive and accessible I plan to continue to use it.

-- Mark G. Harmon

The clear and concise writing of the material facilitates understanding. Reading this text is not an overwhelming task for my students.

-- Margaret Pate

Ample examples of criminal justice research studies

-- Eileen M. Ahlin

Most comprehensive research methods textbook in criminal justice and criminology

-- S. Hakan Can

Making research accessible to students (increasing their confidence)

-- Sanjay Marwah

...It is more extensive than the previous books I used...I anticipate that students will find this text easy to understand.

-- Raymund E.Narag

Thorough coverage of the topics...extensive use of learning and teaching aids (highlights, exercises and key term descriptions)

-- Charles E. Wilson

About Ronet D. Bachman

Ronet D. Bachman, PhD, worked as a statistician at the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, before going back to an academic career; she is now a professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. She is coauthor of Statistical Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice and coeditor of Explaining Criminals and Crime: Essays in Contemporary Criminal Theory. In addition, she is the author of Death and Violence on the Reservation and coauthor of Stress, Culture, and Aggression; Murder American Style; and Violence: The Enduring Problem, along with numerous articles and papers that examine the epidemiology and etiology of violence, with particular emphasis on women, the elderly, and minority populations as well as research examining desistance from crime. Her most recent federally funded research was a mixed-methods study that examined the long-term desistance trajectories of criminal justice-involved individuals who have been followed with both quantitative and interview data for nearly 30 years. Her current state-funded research is assessing the needs of violent crime victims, especially those whose voices are rarely heard such as loved ones of homicide victims. Russell K. Schutt, PhD, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston; Clinical Research Scientist I at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and Lecturer (part-time) in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. He completed his BA, MA, and PhD degrees at the University of Illinois at Chicago and his postdoctoral fellowship in the Sociology of Social Control Training Program at Yale University. In addition to co-authoring The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice and Fundamentals of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice (with Ronet Bachman), he is the author of Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research and Understanding the Social World: Research Methods for the 21st Century, and co-author of Making Sense of the Social World (with Dan Chambliss), Research Methods in Psychology (with Paul G. Nestor), The Practice of Research in Social Work and Fundamentals of Social Work Research (with Ray Engel), and Research Methods in Education (with Joseph Check), all with SAGE Publications, as well as author of Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness and Organization in a Changing Environment, coeditor of Social Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society and of The Organizational Response to Social Problems, and coauthor of Responding to the Homeless: Policy and Practice. He has authored and coauthored more than 65 peer-reviewed journal articles as well as many book chapters and research reports on homelessness, mental health, service preferences and satisfaction, organizations, and the sociology of law. His current and most recent research includes a $200,000 National Science Foundation-funded study of the social impact of the pandemic in Boston, with collaborators at the Center for Survey Research (UMass Boston) and Northeastern University, a $3.8 million randomized comparative effectiveness trial of two socially-oriented interventions to improve community functioning among persons diagnosed with serious mental illness, funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with collaborators at the Harvard Medical School, and a $1 million Veterans Health Administration-funded study of peer support with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the VA. His past research has been funded by the National Cancer Institute, the Veterans Health Administration, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Fetzer Institute, and state agencies. Details are available at https://blogs.umb.edu/russellkschutt/.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Science, Society, and Criminological Research Reasoning About the Social World The Social Science Approach Social Research Philosophies Quantitative and Qualitative Methods Specific Types of Research Methods Strengths and Limitations of Social Research Chapter 2: The Process and Problems of Criminology Research Criminological Research Questions Social Research Foundations The Role of Theory Social Research Strategies Social Research Standards Chapter 3: Research Ethics Historical Background Ethical Principles Research Involving Special Populations: Prisoners and Children Case Studies: Sexual Solicitation of Adolescents and Milgram Revisted Chapter 4: Conceptualization and Measurement Concepts Case Study: Defining Youth Gangs Case Study: Defining Substance Abuse Case Study: Defining Poverty Case Study: Defining Inmate Misconduct Variables and Levels of Measurement Did We Measure What We Wanted to Measure? Chapter 5: Sampling Sample Planning Sampling Methods Sampling Distributions Chapter 6: Causation and Research Design Causal Explanation Criteria and Caustions for Nomothetic Causal Explanations Case Study: Media Violence and Violent Behavior Research Designs and Causality Case Study: Using Life Calendars: Do Offenders Specialize in Different Crimes? Case Study: Offending Over the Life Course Case Studies: Gender, Social Conrol, and Crime Units of Analysis and Errors in Causal Reasoning Chapter 7: Experimental Designs History of Experiments True Experiments Case Study: Prison Classification and Inmate Behavior Case Study: The Effect of Incarceration on Employment Quasi-Experiments Case Study: The Effectiveness of Drug Courts Case Study: The Effects of the Youth Criminal Justice Act Case Study: Reduced Caseload and Intensive Supervision in Probation Case Study: Does an Arrest Increase Delinquency? Validity in Experiments Factorial Survey Design Case Study: How Citizens View Police Misconduct Ethical Issues in Experimental Research Chapter 8: Survey Research Survey Research in the Social Sciences Questionnaire Development Case Study: Measuring Violent Victimizations Writing Survey Questions Organization of the Questionnaire The Cover Letter Survey Designs Ethical Issues in Survey Research Chapter 9: Qualitative Methods: Observing, Participating, and Listening Fundamentals of Qualitative Methods Case Study: Life in a Gang Participant Observation Case Study: The Researcher as Hooligan Systematic Observation Case Study: Studying Public Disorder and Crime Intensive Interviewing Case Study: Jurors' Stories of Death Focus Groups Case Study: An Analysis of Police Searches Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research Analyzing Content: Secondary Data Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Crime Mapping, and Big Data Analyzing Secondary Data Case Study: Police Protection by Neighborhood Comparative Methods Case Study: Homicide Across Nations Content Analysis Case Study: Media Portrayals of Abducted Children Crime Mapping Case Study: Social Disorganization and the Chicago School Case Study: Gang Homicides in St. Louis Case Study: Using Google Earth to Track Sexual Offending Recidivism Big Data Case Study: Predicting Where Crime Will Occur Case Study: Predicting Recidivism With Big Data Methodological Issues When Using Secondary Data Ethical Issues When Analyzing Available Data and Content Chapter 11: Evaluation Research A Brief History of Evaluation Research Evaluation Basics Questions fo Evaluation Research Case Study: Family Justice Center Initiative Case Study: Process Evaluation of an Anti-Gang Initiative Case Study: How Does the Risk Skills Training Program (RSTP) Compare to D.A.R.E.? Case Study: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Therapeutic Communities Design Decisions Evaluation in Action Case Study: Problem-Oriented Policing in Violent Crime Areas-A Randomized Controlled Experiment Quasi-Experimental Designs in Evaluation Research Case Study: Decreasing Injuries from Police Use-of-Force Case Study: Drinking and Homicide in Eastern Europe Nonexperimental Designs Case Study: Vocational Education for Serious Juvenile Offenders-A One-Shot Design Qualitative and Quantitative Methods Policy Research: Increasing Demand for Evidence-Based Policy Basic Science or Applied Research Ethics in Evaluation Chapter 12: Mixing and Comparing Methods What Are Mixed Methods? Case Study of Convergent Parallel Design: School Security and Discipline Case Study of Exploratory Sequential Design: American Indian Homicide Case Study of Embedded Design: Investigating Rape Strengths and Limitations of Mixed Methods Types of Mixed Methods Designs Comparing Results Across Studies Case Study of Meta-Analysis: The Effectiveness of Anti-Bullying Programs Case Study of Meta-Analysis: Do Parent Training Programs Prevent Child Abuse? Case Study of Meta-Synthesis: Female Drug Dealers Ethics and Mixed Methods Chapter 13: Quantitative Data Analysis Introducing Statistics Case Study: The Causes of Delinquency Preparing Data for Analysis Displaying Univariate Distributions Summarizing Univariate Distributions Cross-Tabulating Variables Regression and Correlation Analyzing Data Ethically: How Not to Lie About Relationships Chapter 14: Analyzing Qualitative Data Features of Qualitative Data Analysis Qualitative Compared With Quantitave Data AnalysisAlternatives in Qualitative Data Analysis Techniques of Qualitative Data Analysis Alternatives in Qualitative Data Analysis Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Case Study: Narratives of Desistance from Crime and Substance Abuse Ethics in Qualitative Data Analysis Chapter 15: Reporting Research Results Research Report Goals Case Study: Seeking Higher Education for Inmates On Writing Research Research Report Types Displaying Research Special Considerations for Reporting Qualitative or Mixed-Methods Research Ethics, Politics, and Reporting Research Plagiarism Appendix A: Questions to Ask About a Research Article Appendix B: How to Read a Research Article

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CIN1506306810G
9781506306810
1506306810
The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice by Ronet D. Bachman
Ronet D. Bachman
Used - Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications Inc
20160229
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