Research methods in criminal justice and criminology - Hagan, Frank E (Boston : Pearson, 2014)
Introduction to criminal justice research methods : theory and method -- Ethics in criminal justice research -- Research design : the experimental model and its variations -- The uniform crime reports and sampling -- Survey research : questionnaires -- Survey research : interviews and telephone surveys -- Participant observation and case studies -- Unobtrusive measures, secondary analysis, and the uses of official statistics -- Validity, reliability, and triangulated strategies -- Scaling and index construction -- Policy analysis and evaluation research -- Data management : coding, tabulation, and simple data presentation -- Data analysis : a user's guide to statistics.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Keywords: Criminology -- Research -- Methodology; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Research -- Methodology; Criminal statistics