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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ellis, Lee, 1942- Research methods in criminal justice and criminology. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010 (OCoLC)761280569 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lee Ellis; Richard D Hartley; Anthony Walsh |
| ISBN: | 9780742564428 0742564428 9780742564411 074256441X 9780742565241 0742565246 |
| OCLC Number: | 444109713 |
| Description: | xxi, 497 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | Lee Ellis, Richard D. Hartley, and Anthony Walsh. |
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Using an excellent blend of methods, statistics, and theory, the Ellis, Hartley, and Walsh research methods book is a remarkable text that will definitely be valuable to beginning and advanced researchers. I applaud them for their ability to successfully apply research methods to real-world problems, while at the same time use research examples from a vast array of academic disciplines and topics worldwide. Their book should certainly be one that research methods instructors should consider adopting so that students have an all-encompassing methods experience! -- Chris Gibson, PhD. Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology takes a subject matter that most students find inherently boring and makes it engaging, interesting, and inspiring. Their use of interdisciplinary examples puts a fresh spin on the standard cookie-cutter examples typically used in the explanation of research methods. Ellis, Hartley, and Walsh have created a book that explains difficult and complex material in a way that is easy to comprehend. I recommend this book to all students learning about research methods and to all professors who are teaching this challenging topic. -- Kevin M. Beaver The authors offer an interdisciplinary approach of research that anchors on a broader spectrum of interests in methodology than most textbooks. Instead of solely focusing on criminal justice research, this book introduces the major social/behavioral science disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, economics, geography, and their relationship with criminal justice and criminology. I think it is a smart and thoughtful approach given the facts that majorities of research methods applied in CJ are borrowed from those closely related disciplines and I have no doubt that they will have continuing influence in CJ research. -- Ling Ren, Ph.D Read more...
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