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The Student Study Site has been created for students and instructors
using Ronet Bachman and Russell K. Schutt's The Practice of
Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Third Edition.
This study site should be a valuable resource that both students
and instructors can use in tandem with their textbook to enhance
understanding of key concepts and facilitate class discussions.
The Web-Based Student Study Site contains a variety of student
resources including E-flashcards, Web quizzing for students, recommended
Web sites for further research, and research articles related to
teaching and learning.
CHAPTER SPECIFIC RESOURCES
Web Quizzing
The web quiz for students provides multiple choice and true/false questions to enhance students' understanding of the material. Answers are provided for each of the questions.
Flash Cards
The E-Flashcards are a tool for students to enhance their understanding of key terms outlined in the chapters. E-Flashcards may also be used as a study tool for exams and quizzes.
Web Exercises
The web exercises are taken from the textbook, providing students with the URLs to link to the resources discussed in the each question at the end of each chapter.
GENERAL RESOURCES
Web Resources
The Internet is a powerful learning tool and can be used as a supplement to course material. The Web resources provided on this study site have been listed by chapter to correspond with topics and headings. A brief annotation describing the resources available on each web site is provided.
Learning from Journal Articles
Full text research articles are presented by chapter so that students can identify the key topics covered. Moreover, the articles are accompanied by questions to help students evaluate each piece, as well as links to the journals in which the articles were originally published.
Interactive Exercises
These exercises are designed to help students master the key concepts and terminology introduced throughout the text. The exercises review various different CJ and Crim topics. Questions are based on real research examples, so when you practice with the exercises you will be learning more about the social world as well as improving your understanding of methodological concepts.
GSS Datasets and Documentation
There is no better way to learn than by doing! The CJ specific data sets give students an opportunity to experience some of the thrills (and, let's admit it, a few of the frustrations) of actually analyzing data about important social research questions. The data sets can be used at three points in the course: (1) if you carry out the SPSS exercises at the end of each chapter in order to learn more about related issues; (2) as a supplement to learning quantitative data analysis; (3) whenever the spirit moves you to investigate some interesting social research question that was addressed by one or more questions in these data sets.
There are six data sets from the General Social Survey (GSS):
homicide, ncs, ncvs93, ncvs93mini, state2000, and youth, designed
just for the SPSS exercises in this text. The ncvs93 data set
will not work with the Student SPSS Version, so the ncvs93mini
file is designed for students using the SPSS Student Version.
All files, other than the ncvs93mini file will work with either
the Student SPSS Version or the Full SPSS Version. You will need
to have access to the SPSS program (or a comparable statistical
package that can "read" SPSS data files) in order to
use these data sets. Your university computer lab may have the
complete SPSS program. Alternatively, if you purchased the version
of the text that includes the SPSS Student program, you have the
SPSS Student Program for use on any Windows-compatible computer.
You can also order the SPSS student program online, from Prentice-Hall,
http://vig.prenhall.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0136139485,00.html,
or perhaps at your campus bookstore. You can explore other options,
including the SPSS Graduate Pack, at: http://www.spss.com/spss/family.cfm.
Additional datasets and documentation have been provided from
Russ Schutt’s Investigating the Social World, 5th
Edition.
For your convenience, the author also included documentation for each of the datasets.
Additional Appendices
Appendix E: How to Use a Statistical Package
A step-by-step tutorial about SPSS basics.
Appendix F: How to Use a Qualitative Analysis Package
A thorough introduction to using HyperRESEARCH, the qualitative analysis program included on the CD.
Acknowledgments and Thanks A number of people need to be acknowledged and thanked for their hard work in developing the material on this Study Site.
Thanks to Ronet Bachman and Russ Schutt, whose dedication and perseverance has made the book and ancillary materials into detailed, thorough, and learning-friendly products. Thanks also to Kathryn Stoeckert, who developed most of the interactive exercises that are new to the 3 th edition, and who also included call-outs throughout the text where the interactive exercises topics are addressed.
Also, thanks to Lisa Anne Zilney from Montclair State University who developed the web quizzing. We can't thank her enough for her tireless efforts, and for Jamie Longazel for his careful review of the testing materials.
Finally, our heartfelt thanks to Dustin DiTomasso and Rebecca Sanchez at VPG Integrated Media for their help in producing this Student Study Site. |
