The most comprehensive reference work on research designs and methods in criminology and criminal justice
This Encyclopedia of Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice offers a comprehensive survey of research methodologies and statistical techniques that are popular in criminology and criminal justice systems across the globe. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in the field, it offers a clear insight into the techniques that are currently in use to answer the pressing questions in criminology and criminal justice.
The Encyclopedia contains essential information from a diverse pool of authors about research designs grounded in both qualitative and quantitative approaches. It includes information on popular datasets and leading resources of government statistics. In addition, the contributors cover a wide range of topics such as: the most current research on the link between guns and crime, rational choice theory, and the use of technology like geospatial mapping as a crime reduction tool. This invaluable reference work: - Offers a comprehensive survey of international research designs, methods, and statistical techniques - Includes contributions from leading figures in the field - Contains data on criminology and criminal justice from Cambridge to Chicago - Presents information on capital punishment, domestic violence, crime science, and much more - Helps us to better understand, explain, and prevent crime
Written for undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers, The Encyclopedia of Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice is the first reference work of its kind to offer a comprehensive review of this important topic.
Table of Contents
Volume I
About the Editors [to come from Barnes]
List of Contributors [Production to compile]
Preface [to come from Barnes]
Introduction [to come from Miller
Part 1: Crime Measurement
British Social Attitudes
The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development: New Findings
The Campbell Collaboration
Construct Validity
Crime Mapping/Geospatial information systems
CrimeStat IV
The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study: Methods of a 40+ Year Longitudinal Study
FBI Supplementary Homicide Reports
Forensic Science
General Social Survey (Canada) - Crime Victimization
The General Social Surveys
Geographies of Crime
Levels of Measurement in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Life history calendar method
Measurement Reliability
Measurement Validity
National Centre for Crime and Justice Statistics, Australia
National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) in Criminology
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997
Online Survey Research
The Pathways to Desistence Study: A Longitudinal Examination of Serious Offenders
The Project in Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods
Rochester Youth Development Study and Rochester Intergenerational Study
Space-Time Budget methodology: facilitating social ecology of crime in the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study
The Study of Crime Rates
Uniform Crime Reports
Victim Surveys
Violence and the Personal Safety Survey Australia
World Health Organization Multi-Country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence Against Women
Part 2: Theory
The Chicago School’s Contribution to Criminological Theory and Methods
Critical Criminological Methods
Deconstruction in Criminology
Ethics and Criminology and Criminal Justice: from conceptualising to conduct
Grounded Theory
Inductive Reasoning
Postmodern Methodologies in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Reflexivity
Situational and spatio-temporal characteristics of crime
Social Ecology
Part 3: Research Design
Anonymity and Confidentiality
Cohort Studies in Criminology
Conflict of Interest
Fixed- and Mixed-Effects Quantitative Analysis
Hawthorne Effect
History of the Hawthorne Effect
Human Subjects
Implementation Evaluation
Informed Consent
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment
Longitudinal Analysis in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Objectivity
The Opt-In Internet Survey
Outcome Evaluation
Performance Measures in Criminal Justice Programming
The Philadelphia Foot Patrol Experiment
Program Evaluation
Program Fidelity
Quasi-Experimental Research Design
Questionnaires
Randomized Controlled Trial
Rapport
Replication
Risk Assessment Research: An Examination of Nomenclature, Research Questions, and Analytic Strategies
Spuriousness (Confounding)
Statistical Power, P-values, and the Positive Predictive Value
Time Series Designs
Twin Studies
Type I and Type II Errors
Vignettes
Part 4: Qualitative Methods
Biography in criminology (source and product)
Comparative and Historical Analysis
Confirmation Bias
Content Analysis
Covert participant observation
Discourse analysis
Document Analysis
Drug Ethnography
Edge Ethnography
Interviewing, conversational
Interviewing, focus group
Interviewing, in-depth
Interviewing, photo elicitation
Photovoice
Qualitative Meta-synthesis
Qualitative Software Packages
Queer Methods in Criminology: Three Key Questions
Index
Volume II
About the Editors [to come from Barnes]
List of Contributors [Production to compile]
Preface [to come from Barnes]
Introduction [to come from Miller]
Part 5: Quantitative Methods
Bootstrapping
Causality
Conjunctive Analysis of Case Configurations
Cost-Benefit Analysis in Criminology and Criminal Justice
The Costs of Crime
Crime Prediction/Forecasting
Crime Statistics and the Media
Cross-sectional Data
Data Management
Ecological Fallacy
Experimental designs (randomized experiments)
External Validity
Internal Validity
Mediation
Meta-Analysis
Missing Data in Criminology and Criminal Justice
OLS (Linear) Regression
Path Analysis
Secondary Data Analysis
Part 6: Research Topics
Biosocial Research Methods
Capital Punishment Research
Challenges of Victimization Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Conflict & radical criminology
Courts Research
Crime science
Criminal Career Research: An Overview of Past and Current Research Methods
Cross-national Research
Deterrence Research
Developmental & Life-Course Research
Domestic Violence Research
Environmental Crimes
Ethnography and Grounded Theory: Tales from Prison and Parole Settings
Evidence-Based Practice
Experimental Evaluation of Rap Music Attitudes
Gender & Crime Research
Genocide Research: Social and Economic Aspects
Guns and Crime Research
Homicide Research
Human Trafficking Research
Immigration Research
International Terrorism Research
Neurocriminology: Brain-based perspectives on antisocial behavior
Police legitimacy
Predictive Policing
Property Crimes
Qualitative Approaches to Research in Prisons and Parole
Recidivism Research
Research on Desistance
Researching ‘active’ offenders
Sex offending
Somatotyping
Victimization and Victimology
Victims of Sex Crimes Research
Violent Offending
The Yale White-Collar Crime Project: A Foundation of Modern White-Collar Crime Research
Part 7: Organizations
Australian Bureau of Statistics
The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission
Australian Institute of Criminology: Public sector criminological research
Bureau of Justice Assistance
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics
Criminal Victimisation in Australia - National Data
National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR)
The National Crime Victimization Survey
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
National Security
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003
Part 8: Statistical Methods/Programs
Bayes Statistical Analysis
Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling
GeoDa (spatial statistical program)
Group-based trajectory modeling
Instrumental Variables Analysis
Logistic Regression
Modifiable areal unit problem
Mplus
Propensity Score Matching
R (statistical software)
Regression Discontinuity in Criminal Justice Research
Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM)
STATA: Software for Statistics and Data Software
Statistical significance (P values)
Structural equation modeling
Survival Analysis (Regression)
Virtual Reality as a Research Method in Criminology
Index
