Snapshots of Research Readings in Criminology and Criminal Justice [Paperback]

Snapshots of Research: Readings in Criminology and Criminal Justice is a comprehensive, cutting-edge text that provides an introductory overview of the main research methods used in the fields of criminology and criminal justice. This text/reader offers a wide range of modern research examples, as well as several classic articles, including a broad range of readings from the four major branches of the criminal justice systempolicing, courts/law, juvenile justice, and correctionsthat are relevant to career paths students may be interested in pursuing.Snapshots of Research: Readings in Criminology and Criminal Justice is a comprehensive, cutting-edge text that provides an introductory overview of the main research methods used in the fields of criminology and criminal justice. This text/reader offers a wide range of modern research examples, as well as several classic articles, including a broad range of readings from the four major branches of the criminal justice systempolicing, courts/law, juvenile justice, and correctionsthat are relevant to career paths students may be interested in pursuing.Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Scientific Method and the Research Process in Criminology and Criminal Justice
2. Criminological Theory and the Scientific Method
Research Readings:
Reconsidering the Effect of Self-Control and Delinquent Peers: Implications of Measurement for Theoretical Significance - Ryan C. Meldrum, Jacob T. N. Young, and Frank M. Weerman
An Evaluation of the Assumptions That Underlie Institutional Anomie Theory - Mitchell B. Chamlin and John K. Cochran
An Assessment of Scales Measuring Constructs in Tests of Criminological Theory Based on National Youth Survey Data - Todd A. Armstrong, Daniel R. Lee, and Gaylene s. Armstrong
3. Ethics in the Research Process
Research Readings:
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