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
13. Data Analysis: A User's Guide to Statistics
Appendix A: How to Write the Research Report
Appendix B: Table of Random Numbers
Appendix C: Distribution of Chi-Square
Appendix D: Answers to Pop Quizzes in Chapter 13
Final Quiz
Glossary
References
Name Index
Subject Index