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Essentials of research methods in criminal justice and criminology / Frank E. Hagan.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hagan, Frank E.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston, Mass. : Pearson, 2006.
Edition:	2nd ed.
Subjects:	Criminology > Research > Methodology Criminal justice, Administration of > Research > Methodology

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. An Introduction to Alternative Data-Gathering Strategies and the Special Case of Uniform Crime Reports
5. Sampling and 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 ResearchReferences.