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Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology: A Text and Reader

Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology: A Text and Reader

Author: Christine Tartaro
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367508890
Published In: May 2021
Format: Paperback
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This book explains and illustrates criminal justice research topics, including ethics in research, research design, causation, operationalization of variables, sampling, methods of data collection (including surveys), reliance on existing data, validity, and reliability. For each approach, the book addresses the procedures and issues involved, the method’s strengths and drawbacks, and examples of actual research using that method. Every section begins with a brief summary of the research method. Introductory essays set the stage for students regarding the who, what, when, where, and why of each research example, and relevant discussion questions and exercises direct students to focus on the important concepts.

Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology: A Text and Reader features interesting and relevant articles from leading journals, which have been expertly edited to highlight research design issues. The text offers instructors a well-rounded and convenient collection that eliminates the need to sift through journals to find articles that illustrate important precepts. All articles are recent and address issues relevant to the field today, such as immigration and crime, security post-9/11, racial profiling, and selection bias in media coverage of crime.

The book encourages classroom discussion and critical thinking and is an essential tool for undergraduate and graduate research methods courses in criminal justice, criminology, and related fields.

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Reading and Reviewing Research

3. Ethics in Criminal Justice Research

Reading 3-1: Researching the registered: Challenges and suggestions for researchers studying sex offender populations.

J.L. Klein, D.J.S. Bailey, & L.L. Sample

4. Causation, Experimental, and Quasi-experimental Designs

Reading 4-1: The methodological struggles of racial profiling research: A causal question that automobile stop data has yet to answer

S. W. Fallik

Reading 4-2: The impact of hot spots policing on collective efficacy: Findings from a randomized field trial

T. R. Kochel & D. Weisburd

Reading 4-3: Cognitive-behavioral programming and the value of failed interventions: A propensity score evaluation

B.M. Strah, N.A. Frost, J.I. Stowell, & S.A. Taheri

5. Pre-experimental, Longitudinal, and Cross-sectional Designs

Reading 5-1: Knowledge of the 911 Good Samaritan Law and 911-calling behavior of overdose witnesses

A. Jakubowski, H. V. Kunins, Z. Huxley-Reicher, & A. Siegler

Reading 5-2: A comparison between two retrospective alcohol consumption measures and the daily drinking diary method with university students

C. Patterson, L. Hogan, & M. Cox

6. Measurement, Validity, and Reliability

Reading 6-1: Systemic error: Measuring gender in criminological research

J.L. Valcore & R. Pfeffer

Reading 6-2: We don’t like your type around here: Regional and residential differences in exposure to online hate material targeting sexuality

M. Costello, J. Rukus, & J. Hawdon

Reading 6-3: Popping the cultural bubble of violence risk assessment tools

S.M. Shepherd & T. Anthony

Reading 6-4: Fieldwork protocol as a safety inventory tool in public places

V. Ceccato

7. Measuring Crime: The UCR, NIBRS, and NCVS

Reading 7-1: Urban crime rates and the changing face of immigration: Evidence across four decades

R. Adelman, L. W. Reid, G. Markle, S. Weiss, & C. Jaret

Reading 7-2: The consequences of identity theft victimization: An examination of emotional and physical health outcomes

K. Golladay & K. Holtfreter

8. Sampling

Reading 8-1: Methodology matters: Comparing sample types and data collection methods in a juror decision-making study on the influence of defendant race

E. M. Maeder, S. Yamamoto, & L. A. McManus

Reading 8-2: The effect of community-level alarm ownership on burglary rates

J. Roth, S. Lee, & J. Joo

Reading 8-3: Ayúdame! Who can help me? The help-seeking decisions of battered undocumented Latinas

D. Mowder, F. Lutze, & H. Namgung

9. Surveys and Interviews

Reading 9-1: The malleability of attitudes toward the police: Immediate effects of the viewing of police use of force videos

R. Boivin, A. Gendron, C. Faubert, & B. Poulin

Reading 9-2: "Well, there’s a more scientific way to do it!": Factors influencing receptivity to evidence-based practices in police organizations

H. Kalyal

10. Field Research

Reading 10-1: Consumption and community: The subcultural contexts of disparate marijuana practices in jam band and hip-hop scenes

M. Pawson & B. C. Kelly

11. Less Obtrusive Methods

Reading 11-1: "I hate these little turds!": Science, entertainment, and the enduring popularity of Scared Straight programs

J. Maahs & T. C. Pratt

Reading 11-2: A quasi-experimental evaluation of the effects of police body-worn cameras (BWCs) on response-to-resistance in a large metropolitan police department

W. G. Jennings, L. A. Fridell, M. Lynch, K. K. Jetelina, & J. M. Reingle Gonzalez

Reading 11-3: Psychometric properties of the UNCOPE: Screening for DSM-5 substance use disorder among a state juvenile justice population

S. L. Proctor, A. M. Kopak, & Hoffmann, N. G.

Reading 11-4: Looking inside the black box of drug courts: A meta-analytic review

D. K. Shaffer

12. Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation

Reading 12-1: The cannabis effect on crime: Time-series analysis of crime in Colorado and Washington state

R. Lu, D. Willits, M. K. Stohr, D. Makin, J. Snyder, N. Lovrich, M. Meize, D. Stanton, G. Wu, & C. Hemmens

Reading 12-2: Treatment integrity and recidivism among sex offenders: The relationship between CPC scores and program effectiveness

M. Makarios, L. B. Lovins, A. J. Myer, & E. Latessa

Glossary

Online Supplements:

The following readings are available at www.routledge.com/9780367509132

For Chapter 3, Ethics in Criminal Justice Research

Reading 3-A: Sex with informants as deviant behavior: An account and commentary

E. Goode

For Chapter 5, Pre-experimental, Longitudinal, and Cross-sectional Designs

Reading 5-A: Still paying for the past: Examining gender differences in employment among individuals with a criminal record

G. Curcio & A. Pattavina

For Chapter 8, Sampling

Reading 8-A: Homeless women’s service use, barriers, and motivation for participating in substance use treatment

C.C. Upshur, D. Jenkins, L. Weinreb, L. Gelberg, & E.A. Orvek

Reading 8-B: The willingness of people who inject drugs in Boston to use a supervised injection facility

C. León, L. Cardoso, S. Mackin, B. Bock, & J.M. Gaeta

For Chapter 9, Surveys and Interviews

Reading 9-A: The poly-drug user: Examining associations between drugs used by adolescents

R.W. Biggar Jr., C.J. Forsyth, J. Chen, & K. Burstein

Reading 9-B: Ensuring the validity of police use of force training

N. Rajakaruna, P.J. Henry, A. Cutler, & G. Fairman

For Chapter 10, Field Research

Reading 10-A: She got herself there: Narrative resistance in the drug discourse of strippers

M. F. Lavin

For Chapter 11, Less Obtrusive Methods

Reading 11-A: Newsworthiness of missing persons cases: An analysis of selection bias, disparities in coverage, and the narrative framework of news reports

M.N. Jeanis & R.A. Powers

Reading 11-B: Procedural justice, overaccommodation, and police authority and professionalism: Results from a randomized experiment

B.V. Lowrey-Kinberg