Doing Research on Crime and Justice

2. revised Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-928762-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 974 g

This volume brings together research principles with the practical issues of carrying out research to provide a clear and fascinating guide to the reality of contemporary criminological research. The experience of leading experts is combined with first-hand accounts from new scholars, to provide a text that students can refer to throughout their criminological studies.

Doing Research on Crime and Justice is divided into five parts, and covers practice and politics in criminology; theory, data and types of criminological research; research on crime, criminals and victims; research on criminal justice agencies and institutions, and concludes with four case studies from new scholars.

Incorporating a new international perspective, this volume also addresses contemporary issues such as cyber crime, and provides guidance on conducting research in situations of cultural diversity.

Zielgruppe

Students completing postgraduate courses in criminology, particularly PhD students. The text is also suitable for students taking undergraduate degrees in criminology, especially final year students completing dissertations, and professional criminological researchers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

King, Roy

Wincup, Emma

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- I. Practice and politics in criminological research

- 1: Roy King and Emma Wincup: The process of criminological research

- 2: Rod Morgan and Mike Hough: The politics of criminological research

- II. Theory, data and types of criminological research

- 3: Anthony Bottoms: The relationship between theory and empirical observations in criminology

- 4: Per-Olaf Wikstrom: In search of causes and explanations of crime

- 5: Friedrich Losel: Doing evaluation research in criminology

- 6: Manuel Eisner, Michael Motto and Alpa Palmar: Doing criminological research in ethnically and culturally diverse contexts

- 7: Frances Heidensohn: International comparative research in criminology

- III. Research on crime, criminals and victims

- 8: Pat Mayhew: Researching the state of crime

- 9: Mike Maguire: Research street criminals in the field: a neglected art?

- 10: Paddy Rawlinson: Mission impossible? Researching organized crime

- 11: Sandra Walklate: Researching victims

- IV. Research on criminal justice agencies and institutions

- 12: Robert Reiner and Tim Newburn: Police research

- 13: John Baldwin: Research on the criminal courts

- 14: George Mair: Research on community penalties

- 15: Roy King and Alison Liebling: Research in prisons

- V. Some recent case studies

- 16: Matthew Williams: Cyber crime and online methodologies

- 17: Philip Hadfield: Ethnographic research and the licensing courts

- 18: Joel Harvey: An embedded multimethod approach to prison research

- 19: Darrick Jolliffe: Researching bullying in the classroom

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Roy King is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge

Dr Emma Wincup is Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds