Researching Crime
Researching Crime
Editor/Author
Crowther-Dowey, Chris and Fussey, Pete
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Ltd
Single-User Purchase Price:
$95.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$142.50
ISBN: 978-0-230-23020-0
Category: Social Sciences - Criminology & Law
Image Count:
13
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Using clear examples of research problems and possibilities, this book shows students how to design and do their own criminological research.
Table of Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The rationale of the book
- The value of criminological research
- Forms of criminological research
- The organizing structure of the book
- Part 1 the principles of research
- Chapter 1 research as an integrated process
- Chapter 2 connecting research and theory: influences on criminological research
- Chapter 3 crime research and criminological theory
- Part 2 the practicalities of research
- Chapter 4 using other people's data: secondary research and the analysis of official data
- Chapter 5 asking questions about crime: surveys and questionnaires
- Chapter 6 talking to people about crime: interviews and focus groups
- Chapter 7 watching crime and crime control: ethnographic and observational research
- Chapter 8 using documents: content, conversation and discourse analysis
- Chapter 9 mixed methods and triangulation
- Conclusion
- Approaches, Methods and Application
- A Checklist for doing Research
- Appendices
- Appendix 1: an internet guide for criminology students
- Appendix 2: interview schedule for ‘a study of the opportunities and barriers facing bme police officers’
- Appendix 3: interview schedule for ‘an assessment of student attitudes to the death penalty’
- Glossary
- References