Community policing seems always in vogue, yet its essential qualities remain elusive. There has been a rush to evaluate community policing before commentators have got to grips with what community police officers do which is distinctive. This important new book by a leading expert on community policing in Britain offers a detailed analysis of the activities, functions, and operations of community police officers, and shows how community police officers gather information about crime from the communities in which they serve, and also how they apply informal social control to public disorder...
Community policing seems always in vogue, yet its essential qualities remain elusive. There has been a rush to evaluate community policing before comm...
Using original field data this book analyzes how courts handle physical violence cases. It examines the questioning of defendants, witnesses and victims, how testimony and physical evidence is used, and what victims, witnesses, defendants, lawyers, and judges think of the trial process. The book offers an accessible insight into the work of the courts and how society deals with violent crime.
Using original field data this book analyzes how courts handle physical violence cases. It examines the questioning of defendants, witnesses and victi...
This book seeks to raise the profile of economic perspectives on crime and criminal justice. It includes exemplars and original contributions, welded into a coherent whole by commentaries on each chapter and annotated further readings. It includes sections concerning the economic analysis of crime and punishment crime and the labor market and modeling the system-wide costs of criminal justice policies.
This book seeks to raise the profile of economic perspectives on crime and criminal justice. It includes exemplars and original contributions, welded ...
The use of computers in qualitative research has redefined the way social researchers handle qualitative data. Two leading researchers in the field have written this lucid text on the principal approaches in qualitative research and show how the leading computer programs are used in computer-assisted qualitative data analysis (CAQDAS).
The use of computers in qualitative research has redefined the way social researchers handle qualitative data. Two leading researchers in the field ha...
Social scientists have always recognised a divergence between approaches which emphasise the constraining power of social structure and those which interpret society through the cumulative effects of actions of individuals. In recent years there has been renewed interest in the latter through the micro-sociology of everyday life. Social scientists are now taking stock of the implications of micro-sociological research for the analysis of structure and the macro-level theory of society. In Actions and Structure the value of micro-sociological research for the analysis of social order is...
Social scientists have always recognised a divergence between approaches which emphasise the constraining power of social structure and those which in...
Interviewing has a strong claim to be the most widely-practiced social science research methods. The ubiquity of this basic activity means that this field has one of the most developed bodies of methodological literature having ramifications throughout the social sciences. Nigel Fielding, the acknowledged expert in the field, has again collected a set of contemporary classic readings. Interviewing has been established as the authoritative and balanced research resource in this subject. It is comprehensive and generic; however, its coverage does not entirely reflect the apportionment of...
Interviewing has a strong claim to be the most widely-practiced social science research methods. The ubiquity of this basic activity means that this f...
Online research methods are popular, dynamic and fast-changing. Following on from the great success of the first edition, published in 2008, The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Second Edition offers both updates of existing subject areas and new chapters covering more recent developments, such as social media, big data, data visualization and CAQDAS.
Bringing together the leading names in both qualitative and quantitative online research, this new edition is organised into nine sections:
1. Online Research Methods 2. Designing Online...
Online research methods are popular, dynamic and fast-changing. Following on from the great success of the first edition, published in 2008,
