Essentials of Research Methods for Criminal Justice, 3rd edition

Published by Pearson (14 July 2021) © 2022

  • Frank E. Hagan Mercyhurst College

Essentials of Research Methods for Criminal Justice

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Table of contents

1. Introduction to Criminal Justice Research Methods: Theory and Method
2. Ethics on Criminal Justice Research
3. Research Design: The Experimental Model and Its Variations
4. 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 Triangular Strategies
10. Scaling and Index Construction
11. Policy Analysis and Evaluation Research

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