Ideal for undergraduate or graduate-level courses, Research Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice, Fourth Edition introduces students to the functions of criminal justice research including basic ideas behind scientific theory, research language, and research design.
Research Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice: A Primer, Second Edition provides students of criminology and criminal justice with a clear and simple approach to understanding social science research. Completely updated and redesigned, this text is written to engage students and make the complex subject of research methods easy for the would-be criminal justice practitioner to comprehend. In addition to covering current topics such as community policing, alternative sentencing for nonviolent offenders, and gang violence, each chapter starts with a case study demonstrating how research methods are used in practical applications within the field. Later, these issues are also addressed in exercises and questions found at the end of the chapter. This indispensable resource is accessible, understandable, and user-friendly, and is a must-read for students in any research methods course.Each chapter of this text begins with a case study illustrating how research methods, requirements, and processes are used in real-life applications. Research Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice: A Primer uses important contemporary issues such as gangs, drugs, teen alcohol abuse, and alternative sentencing options for non-violent offenders, to illustrate role of research in developing policies and procedures. These illustrations are also addressed at the end of each chapter in exercises and review questions. Research Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice: A Primer makes learning research methods easy, understandable, and applicable to the criminal justice topics students are most interested in.Research Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice: A Primer will be available with instructor's resources including an Instructor's Manual, including lecture outlines and review question solutions, Microsoft PowerPoint(tm) presentations, and a test bank.
This textbook will teach students in criminal justice programs the essential skills needed for effective police administration and management. Although it is written in a manner that graduate students would find stimulating and thought- provoking, its target audience is juniors and seniors. The author uses a three-pronged approach. Each topic is explored from a traditional, modern, and futuristic perspective. This approach combines theory and practical application in a manner that helps the students grasp all the ramifications of the issues at hand. To assist in this, commentary solicited from police administrators (from middle-management to police chief) that reflects their experiences and thoughts on the various issues is offered. In addition to the commentary, realistic and pragmatic examples are provided to clarify the concept and to show its practical applications. This text was written to bridge the gap between purely theoretical and strongly practical texts. The use of theory to establish the concept and realistic illustrations and practitioners' perspectives to demonstrate the link between theory and reality gives this text a dimension found in very few texts. Furthermore, by using a three-pronged approach (traditional, reform and community or yesterday, today and tomorrow), readers are offered the basis from which the concepts originate, their transformation and possibly future implications, in a well-rounded manner allowing for a full view of the ideas and concepts. Combines a theoretical and practical approach Explores a variety of police administration issues from three perspectives, political/traditional, reform/modern, and community/futuristic. Realisticillustrations and practitioner's perspectives
This value-added bundle completes any research methods course. It includes Research Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice, Fourth Edition AND Write & Wrong, Second Edition.
Criminology and Criminal Justice describes and discusses criminology and criminal justice as social foci and as academic disciplines. Its comparative and contrasting nature allows readers to gain a better understanding of both topics as separate entities, but also how they are more intertwined than most might recognize. The book covers the most important aspects of these disciplines, beginning with laying the groundwork of nature and content and ending with a look into the future. At the book's conclusion, the reader should better understand the similarities and differences of the two, as well as recognize their singularly distinctive traits. Discussion questions are included at the end of each chapter to facilitate critical thinking. M.L. Dantzker is an associate professor of Political Science at Georgia Southern University teaching in the Justice Studies Program. He received his Ph.D. in Administration from the University of Texas-Arlington. Prior to entering academia full-time, Dr. Dantzker was a police officer in Indiana and in Texas. He has researched, consulted, and published in the areas of police stress, police job satisfaction, educational issues, criminal justice statistics, and police chief requirements. Unique approach to understanding how the disciplines of criminology and criminal justice are related Discussion questions facilitate critical thinking
This collection of original readings from expert authors explores the contemporary nature and use of police special units. The readings examine a wide range of police special units and provide critical insights regarding both operational and administrative considerations applicable to police special units. A four-part organization provides in-depth analyses of a wide range of police special units, including SWAT and critical incident teams, elder abuse units, bias/hate crime units, gang units, drug units, volunteer units, and mounted and bicycle units.
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