TY - BOOK AU - Hagan,Frank E TI - Research methods in criminal justice and criminology SN - 9780133008616 PY - 2014///] CY - Boston PB - Pearson KW - Criminology KW - Research KW - Methodology KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Criminal statistics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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 ER -