Criminological Skills and Research for Beginners: A Student's Guide

ISBN-13: 9781138041431 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str.

Laura Caulfield; Jane Hill

Opis

Earlier edition published as: Criminological research for beginners.

Spis treści

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.