Research Methods in Crime and Justice (9780415884365)

This fresh and innovative hybrid text/online material for undergraduate CJ RESEARCH METHODS uniquely addresses the fundamental teaching issue for this course: how to communicate and successfully teach students that their future success as criminal justice practitioners is linked to their acquisition of research skills.

The author Brian Withrow, a former Texas State Trooper, widely published academic researcher, and teacher of the undergraduate methods course, consistently demonstrates how research skills aren't just essential to university academic researchers; they are essential to student success as criminal justice practitioners, and to all who want to succeed in an information economy. More than 80 short, sharply focused examples throughout the text rely on actual research that is conducted by, on behalf of, or relevant to criminal justice practitioners. The book engages students' interests like no other.

The online materials provide a wide array of instructor support material, all written by the author, and also offer a unique feature, The Researcher's Notebook, which provides students (and their instructors) a series of structured exercises leading to the development and completion of a research question, conducting a literature review, and designing a research method that provides the data necessary to answer the research question - all with a minimal amount of instructor supervision.

Cover images are courtesy of Lauren Withrow

Product details

• Format Hardback | 422 pages
• Dimensions 187 x 235 x 22.86mm | 953g
• Publication date 23 Sep 2013
• Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Imprint ROUTLEDGE
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition Statement New.
• Illustrations note Adapt Social Work and Social Welfare; 18 Tables, color
• ISBN10 0415884365
• ISBN13 9780415884365

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