The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research Methods

Author: Gadd   David;Karstedt   Susanne;Messner   Steven F.  

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd‎

Publication year: 2011

E-ISBN: 9781446254462

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781849201759

Subject: D917 犯罪学

Keyword: 社会学

Language: ENG

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Description

Looking at both the techniques and logic of inquiry surrounding methods used in criminological research, this progressive handbook brings together work from internationally renowned experts to provide readers with an important resource on the application of methods.

Chapter

SECTION 1 - Crime and Criminals

1 Life Histories and Autobiographies as Ethnographic Data

2 Self-report Surveys within Longitudinal Panel Designs

3 In-depth Interviewing and Psychosocial Case Study Analysis

4 Grounding the Analysis of Gender and Crime: Accomplishing and Interpreting Qualitative Interview Research

5 Neurocriminological Approaches

6 Gun Prevalence, Homicide Ratesand Causality: A GMM Approach to Endogeneity Bias

SECTION 2 - Contextualizing Crime in Space and Time: Networks, Communities and Culture

7 Multi-level Modeling and Criminological Inquiry

8 Examining the Role of the Environment in Crime Causation: Small-Area Community Surveys and Space–Time Budgets

9 Social Networks and the Ecology of Crime: Using Social Network Data to Understand the Spatial Distribution of Crime

10 Using Census Data and Surveys to Study Labor Markets and Crime

11 Historical and Archival Research Methods

12 The Making of the GlobalTerrorism Database and Its Applicability to Studying the Life Cycles of Terrorist Organizations

SECTION 3 - Perceptual Dimensions of Crime

13 Ethnographic Photography in Criminological Research

14 Autoethnography

15 Interviewing Victims of State Violence

16 Questioning Homicide and the Media: Analysis of Content or Content Analysis?

17 Assessing Crime Through International Victimization Surveys

18 In Search of the Fear of Crime

19 Measuring Public Attitudes to Criminal Justice

SECTION 4 - Criminal Justice Systems: Organizations and Institutions

20 Researching Police Culture: A Longitudinal Mixed Method Approach

21 Quasi-experimental Research on Community Policing

22 Order in the Court: Using Ethnomethodology to Explore Juvenile Justice Settings

23 Evaluation Research and Probation: How to Distinguish High Performance from Low Performance Programmes

24 Conceptualising and Measuring the Quality of Prison Life

25 Comparing Justice and Crime Across Cultures

SECTION 5 - Preventing Crime and Improving Justice

26 Experimental Criminologyand Restorative Justice: Principles of Developing and Testing Innovations in Crime Policy

27 Large-Scale Criminological Field Experiments

28 Meta-Analysis as a Method of Systematic Reviews

29 Crime Concentration and Police Work

30 Assessing the Cost of Fraud

31 The Other Cultural Criminology:The Role of Action Research in Justice Work and Development

32 Feminist Approaches to Criminological Research

33 Research Ethics in Criminology

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