Laura Caulfield, Jane Hill

Criminological Skills and Research for Beginners (eBook, ePUB)

A Student's Guide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Criminological Skills and Research for Beginners, Third Edition, is a comprehensive and engaging guide to research methods in Criminology, and the skills required for academic success.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040297582
• Artikelnr.: 73301894

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

List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
Visual tour (How to use this book)
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. Qualitative approaches to research
13. Questionnaires and surveys
14. Using documentary and secondary data sources
15. Using online and social media data sources in criminological research
Part V, Doing criminological research: analysis and writing-up
16. Analysing the data: quantitative analysis
17. Analysing the data: qualitative analysis
18. Analysing the data: documents, texts and other data
19. Writing-up criminological research
Glossary
Index