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Research Methods for Criminal Justice Students

This book is based on two open-access textbooks: Bhattacherjee’s (2012) Social science research: Principles, methods, and practices and Blackstone’s (2012) Principles of sociological inquiry: Qualitative and quantitative methods. I first used Bhattacherjee’s book in a graduate-level criminal justice...

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Main Author: Williams, Monica (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] Monica Williams 2022.
Series:Open textbook library.
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Academic achievement > Textbooks
Social sciences > Textbooks
Sociology > Textbooks
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Thinking Like a Researcher
  • 1. Scientific Research
  • 2. Paradigms, Theories, and Research
  • 3. Ethics in Research
  • II. Research Design
  • 4. Research questions
  • 5. Research approaches and goals
  • 6. Research methodologies
  • 7. Measurement
  • 8. Sampling
  • III. Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis Techniques
  • 9. Focus groups
  • 10. Field research
  • 11. Qualitative data analysis
  • IV. A Qualitative and Quantitative Data Collection Technique
  • 12. Interviews
  • V. Quantitative Data Collection and Analysis Techniques
  • 13. Surveys
  • 14. Experiments
  • 15. Quantitative data analysis

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