PART 1 Disciplinary, Theoretical, and Philosophical Foundations 1
Chapter 1 Criminal Justice and Criminology Research: Mapping the Terrain 3
Chapter 2 The Nature of Science and Research 27
Chapter 3 Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations 48
PART 2 Considerations in Research Preparation 71
Chapter 4 Ethics and Reviewing the Literature 73
Chapter 5 Quantitative and Qualitative Research Design 97
Chapter 6 Quantitative and Qualitative Measurement and Sampling 116
PART 3 Quantitative Data Collection 151
Chapter 7 Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Crime and Justice Research 153
Chapter 8 Survey and Interview Methods 172
Chapter 9 Nonreactive Research: Content Analysis and Existing Documents/Statistics 197
PART 4 Qualitative Research, Mixed Methods,and Writing 215
Chapter 10 Crime and Justice Ethnographic Field Research 218
Chapter 11 Historical, Qualitative Document Analysis, Academic Legal,and Mixed Methods Research 248
PART 5 Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis 277
Chapter 12 Analysis of Quantitative and Qualitative Data 278
Bibliography 312
Index 334