Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Methods - Hardcover

Kraska, Peter B.; Neuman, W. Lawrence

9780205485703: Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Methods

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0205485707 ISBN 13: 9780205485703

Publisher: Pearson, 2007

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A great read in that it breaks hard concepts down into understandable terms.

Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Methods truly engages students to learn an essential yet difficult subject. It features real-life examples, accessibility without sacrificing rigor, cutting-edge coverage of the subject, and a consistent demonstration of how research is relevant to both the criminal justice system and our discipline. This text goes beyond the nuts and bolts, and teaches students how to competently critique as well as create research-based knowledge.

The authors managed to create a comprehensive research methods book that is easily among the most rigorous in our field in terms of the traditional quantitative techniques, but at the same time, it provides three full chapters devoted to a wide range of qualitative methods. Qualitative methods are also integrated throughout the entire book along with a strong emphasis on the idea of mixed methods research.

Filled with women's studies examples and highlights, it also discusses in many different places throughout the text the array of feminist approaches to conducting research (feminist approach to interviewing for example).

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Wow--your new methods text just landed here today, and I've been reading in it off and on all afternoon. Really a remarkable, big-time accomplishment: a thorough, comprehensive, fair-minded, theoretically informed methods text that is--I can't believe I'm writing this--actually interesting and engaging! The text itself, the 'highlights', the images--the whole thing works beautifully as a student text and as a statement of where methods are and where they are going. And needless to say, unlike any other texts I've seen, it doesn't just nod to qual methods--it actually understands the logic of them. Again, really great stuff--and I've already emailed my young colleague who teaches methods here to tell her she must adopt it! More broadly, I can assure you I'll be pushing it whenever/wherever I can... - Jeff Ferrell

Synopsis:

Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Methods truly engages students to learn an essential yet difficult subject. It features real-life examples, accessibility without sacrificing rigor, cutting-edge coverage of the subject, and a consistent demonstration of how research is relevant to both the criminal justice system and our discipline. This text goes beyond the nuts and bolts, and teaches students how to competently critique as well as create research-based knowledge. The authors managed to create a comprehensive research methods book that is easily among the most rigorous in our field in terms of the traditional quantitative techniques, but at the same time, it provides three full chapters devoted to a wide range of qualitative methods. Qualitative methods are also integrated throughout the entire book along with a strong emphasis on the idea of mixed methods research. Filled with women's studies examples and highlights, it also discusses in many different places throughout the text the array of feminist approaches to conducting research (feminist approach to interviewing for example).

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