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Controversies in Criminal Justice Research
Richard Tewksbury, Elizabeth Ehrhardt Mustaine
Regular Price: $29.95
Publisher: Anderson Publishing
Format: softcover, 200 pp.
ISBN: 9781583605479
  ©2003

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Description

This book of original essays presents students with challenging looks at some of the most basic, and sometimes most difficult, decisions faced by criminal justice researchers. Each chapter presents an overview of a foundational question/issue in the conduct of research, and discussion of the options to resolve these controversies.

The reader is introduced to such basic questions as whether criminal justice research can and does affect social policy, whether a researcher should collect their own original data or draw on existing data sets, what types of approaches to use with interview subjects, and whether particular questions are best approached by quantitative or qualitative research methods. Each selection lays out the merits of various options and challenges students to critically think through their own solutions to each controversy.




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Table of contents

Introductory Chapters

Chapter 1. Should (Does) Criminal Justice Research Influence Social Policy?
Elizabeth Ehrhardt Mustaine

Chapter 2. The Value of Purely Theoretical Research vs. More "Practical" Research
Tracy L. Dietz

Chapter 3. How to Know if a Piece of Research is Good/Valuable
Jeffrey L. Helms & Jeanne J. Johnson


Quantitative Methods

Chapter 4. Methodological Yin and Yang: Value of Qualitative and Quantitative Research in Social Science
Angela D. West & Lanette P. Dalley

Chapter 5. Original vs. Secondary Data Collection: The New Dilemma for Research
Jana L. Jasinski

Chapter 6. Does Theory Really Guide Survey Research? Why Is Theory Important in Surveys?
Tracy L. Dietz & Jana L. Jasinski

Chapter 7. Macro and Micro Research Approaches: Which Makes More Sense?
Julie C. Kunselman


Qualitative Methods

Chapter 8. Getting In and Getting On: Entree Strategies and the Importance of Trust and Rapport in Qualitative Research
Patricia Gagne

Chapter 9. Interviews as Data Collection Method: But, Which Type Should I Use?
Kathrine Johnson

Chapter 10. Validity of Participant Observational Data/Research
Alexis J. Miller

Chapter 11. Utility of Case Studies
Kim Davies
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