Research methods in criminal justice and criminology/ by Frank E. Hagan

Includes appendices, references, glossary and index

Chapter 1. Introduction of criminal justice research methods: theory and method --2. Ethics in criminal justice research --3. Research design: the experimental model and its variations --4. An introduction to alternative data-gathering strategies and the special case of uniform crime reports --5. Sampling and survey research: questionnaires --6. Survey research: interviews and telephone surveys --7. Participant observation and case studies --8. Unobtrusive measures, secondary analysis and the uses of official statistics --9. Validity, reliability, and triangulated strategies --10. Scaling and index construction --11. Data analysis: coding, tabulation, and simple data --12. Data analysis: a user's guide to statistics --13. Policy analysis, evaluation research, and proposal writing.