The SAGE handbook of criminological research methods.

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Imprint:London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2012.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8772366
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Other authors / contributors:Gadd, David, 1975-
ISBN:9781849201759 (hardback)
1849201757 (hardback)
Table of Contents:
  • Editorial Introduction
  • Section 1. Crime and Criminals
  • Life Histories and Autobiographies as Ethnographic Data
  • Self-Report Surveys within Longitudinal Panel Designs
  • In-depth Interviewing and Psychosocial Case Study Analysis
  • Grounding the Analysis of Gender and Crime: Accomplishing and Interpreting Qualitative Interview Research
  • Neurocriminological Approaches
  • Gun Prevalence, Homicide Rates and Causality: a GMM Approach to Endogeneity Bias
  • Section 2. Contextualizing Crime in Space and Time: Networks, Communities and Culture
  • Multi-level Modeling and Criminological Inquiry
  • Examining the Role of the Environment in Crime Causation: Small Area Community Surveys and Space-Time Budgets
  • Social Networks and the Ecology of Crime: Using Social Network Data to Understand the Spatial Distribution of Crime
  • Using Census Data and Surveys to Study Labor Markets and Crime
  • Historical and Archival Research Methods
  • Section 3. Perceptual Dimensions of Crime
  • Ethnographic Photography in Criminological Research
  • Autoethnography
  • Interviewing Victims of State Violence
  • Questioning Homicide and the Media: Analysis of Content or Content Analysis?
  • Assessing Crime through International Victimization Surveys
  • In Search of the Fear of Crime: Using Interdisciplinary Insights to Improve the Conceptualisation and Measurement of Everyday Insecurities
  • Measuring Public Attitudes to Criminal Justice
  • Section 4. criminal justice systems: organizations and Institutions
  • Researching Police Culture: a Longitudinal Mixed Method Approach
  • Quasi-experimental Research on Community Policing
  • Order in the Court: Using Ethnomethodology to Explore Juvenile Justice Settings
  • Evaluation Research and Probation: How to Distinguish High Performance from Low Performance Programmes
  • Conceptualising and Measuring the Quality of Prison Life
  • Comparing Justice and Crime across Cultures
  • Section 5. Preventing Crime and Improving Justice
  • Experimental Criminology and Restorative Justice: Principles of Developing and Testing Innovations in Crime Policy
  • Large-Scale Criminological Field Experiments
  • Meta-Analysis as a Method of Systematic Reviews
  • Crime Concentration and Police Work
  • Assessing the costs of Fraud
  • The Other Cultural Criminology: The Role of Action Research in Justice Work and Development
  • Feminist Approaches to Criminological Research
  • Research Ethics in Criminology