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For courses in Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology. Teaches research fundamentals with a grounded, real-world approach. Research Methods in Criminal Justice, 9/e teaches contemporary research methods using examples of real criminological and criminal justice studies to illustrate concepts and techniques. Hagan's best-selling approach familiarizes students with examples of research in the field as they learn fundamental research skills. The text emphasizes sources and resources of classic and contemporary research in the field and helps students and professionals better understand the extensive diversity of research available and in progress in criminal justice. The logical organization carries students through the sequence of the research process, but is flexible enough to allow instructors to customize the text to suit their courses.

Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology: Pearson New International Edition

• Table of Contents


• 1. Introduction to Criminal Justice Research Methods: Theory and Method


• 2. Ethics in Criminal Justice Research


• 3. Research Design: The Experimental Model and Its Variations


• 4. The Uniform Crime Reports and Sampling


• 5. Survey Research: Questionnaires


• 6. Survey Research: Interviews and Telephone Surveys


• 7. Participant Observation and Case Studies


• 8. Unobtrusive Measures, Secondary Analysis, and the Uses of Official Statistics


• 9. Validity, Reliability, and Triangulated Strategies


• 10. Scaling and Index Construction


• 11. Policy Analysis and Evaluation Research


• 12. Data Management: Coding, Tabulation, and Simple Data Presentation


• Appendix A


• Appendix B


• Appendix C


• Appendix D


• Index


• A


• B


• C


• D


• E


• F


• G


• H


• I


• J


• K


• L


• M


• N


• O


• P


• Q


• R


• S


• T


• U


• V


• W


• X


• Z