Laura Caulfield (UK Bath Spa University), Jane Hill (UK Birmingham City University)

Criminological Skills and Research for Beginners

A Student's Guide

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a comprehensive and engaging guide to research methods in Criminology, and the skills required for academic success. It is designed as a lively and accessible guide to planning, conducting, and reporting research in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781138041431
• ISBN-10: 1138041432
• Artikelnr.: 51572697

Autorenporträt

Laura Caulfield is Professor and Chair of the Institute for Community Research and Development at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Jane Hill was the Programme Director for the Criminology BA at Birmingham City University, UK, before her retirement in 2012.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Study Skills for Criminology Students 1. Writing Skills and Essay
Writing 2. Referencing 3. Revision Skills and Examination Techniques 4.
Presentation Skills Part II: The Importance of Criminological Research 5.
The context of criminological research: power, knowledge, politics, and
values 6. The significance of criminological research: understanding the
philosophical roots of our claims to know about crime in society 7. The
ethics of criminological research Part III: Getting Going with
Criminological Research 8. Planning: Where do research ideas come from? How
do we 'fine tune' them? 9. Critiquing the literature and the process of
writing your formal review 10. Theories, methods, and their relationships
to theories of knowledge 11. Preparing for the practical challenges of
real-world crime research Part IV: Doing Criminological Research: Data
Collection 12. Ethnographic approaches to research 13. Questionnaires and
surveys 14. Using documentary and secondary data sources Part V: Doing
Criminological Research: Analysis and writing-up 15. Analysing the data:
Quantitative analysis 16. Analysing the data: Qualitative analysis 17.
Analysing the data: Documents, texts, and other data 18. Writing-up
criminological research.