The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research Methods

David Gadd
Susanne Karstedt
Steven F. Messner
The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research Methods
November 2011 | 552 pages | Sage UK
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Conducting research into crime and criminal justice carries its own unique challenges. The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research Methods focuses on the application of "methods," broadly understood, to address the core substantive questions that currently motivate contemporary criminological research. It maps a canon of methods that are more elaborated than in most other fields of social science, and the intellectual terrain of research problems with which criminologists are routinely confronted.

Drawing on exemplary studies, chapters in each section will illustrate the techniques (qualitative and quantitative) that are commonly applied in empirical studies, as well as the logic of criminological enquiry - the ways in which the specific nature of research questions dictate the kinds of data and analytic strategies required to effectively answer these questions. Organized into five sections, each of which is prefaced by an editorial introduction, the Handbook covers:

• Crime and Criminals

• Crime's Contexts: Networks, Cultures and Communities

• Perceptual Dimensions of Crime

• Criminal Justice Systems: Organizations and Institutions

• Preventing Crime and Improving Justice

Edited by leaders in the field of criminological research, and containing contributions by internationally renowned experts, The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research Methods is comprehensive, forward-thinking and broad in its enquiry. Written for graduates, researchers and academics in criminology, criminal justice, policing, law, and sociology, this exciting, much-needed addition to the criminological library is set to become a definitive resource for research.

 

Contents

Editorial Introduction

Editorial Introduction

PART ONE: CRIME AND CRIMINALS

  • Life Histories and Autobiographies as Ethnographic Data
  • Self-Report Surveys within Longitudinal Panel Designs
  • In-depth Interviewing and Psychosocial Case Study Analysis
  • Grounding the Analysis of Gender and Crime: Accomplishing and Interpreting Qualitative Interview Research
  • Neurocriminological Approaches
  • Gun Prevalence, Homicide Rates and Causality: A GMM Approach to Endogeneity Bias

PART TWO: CONTEXTUALIZING CRIME IN SPACE AND TIME: NETWORKS, COMMUNITIES AND CULTURE

  • Multi-level Modeling and Criminological Inquiry
  • Examining the Role of the Environment in Crime Causation: Small Area Community Surveys and Space-Time Budgets
  • Social Networks and the Ecology of Crime: Using Social Network Data to Understand the Spatial Distribution of Crime
  • Using Census Data and Surveys to Study Labor Markets and Crime
  • Historical and Archival Research Methods

PART THREE: PERCEPTUAL DIMENSIONS OF CRIME

  • Ethnographic Photography in Criminological Research
  • Autoethnography
  • Interviewing Victims of State Violence
  • Questioning Homicide and the Media: Analysis of Content or Content Analysis?
  • Assessing Crime through International Victimization Surveys
  • In Search of the Fear of Crime: Using Interdisciplinary Insights to Improve the Conceptualisation and Measurement of Everyday Insecurities
  • Measuring Public Attitudes to Criminal Justice

PART FOUR: CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS: ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS

  • Researching Police Culture: A Longitudinal Mixed Method Approach
  • Quasi-experimental Research on Community Policing
  • Order in the Court: Using Ethnomethodology to Explore Juvenile Justice Settings
  • Evaluation Research and Probation: How to Distinguish High Performance from Low Performance Programmes
  • Conceptualising and Measuring the Quality of Prison Life
  • Comparing Justice and Crime across Cultures

PART FIVE: PREVENTING CRIME AND IMPROVING JUSTICE

  • Experimental Criminology and Restorative Justice: Principles of Developing and Testing Innovations in Crime Policy
  • Large-Scale Criminological Field Experiments
  • Meta-Analysis as a Method of Systematic Reviews
  • Crime Concentration and Police Work
  • Assessing the costs of Fraud
  • The Other Cultural Criminology: The Role of Action Research in Justice Work and Development
  • Feminist Approaches to Criminological Research
  • Research Ethics in Criminology

Description

Conducting research into crime and criminal justice carries its own unique challenges. The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research Methods focuses on the application of "methods," broadly understood, to address the core substantive questions that currently motivate contemporary criminological research. It maps a canon of methods that are more elaborated than in most other fields of social science, and the intellectual terrain of research problems with which criminologists are routinely confronted.

Drawing on exemplary studies, chapters in each section will illustrate the techniques (qualitative and quantitative) that are commonly applied in empirical studies, as well as the logic of criminological enquiry - the ways in which the specific nature of research questions dictate the kinds of data and analytic strategies required to effectively answer these questions. Organized into five sections, each of which is prefaced by an editorial introduction, the Handbook covers:

• Crime and Criminals

• Crime's Contexts: Networks, Cultures and Communities

• Perceptual Dimensions of Crime

• Criminal Justice Systems: Organizations and Institutions

• Preventing Crime and Improving Justice

Edited by leaders in the field of criminological research, and containing contributions by internationally renowned experts, The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research Methods is comprehensive, forward-thinking and broad in its enquiry. Written for graduates, researchers and academics in criminology, criminal justice, policing, law, and sociology, this exciting, much-needed addition to the criminological library is set to become a definitive resource for research.

 

Contents

Editorial Introduction

Editorial Introduction

PART ONE: CRIME AND CRIMINALS

  • Life Histories and Autobiographies as Ethnographic Data
  • Self-Report Surveys within Longitudinal Panel Designs
  • In-depth Interviewing and Psychosocial Case Study Analysis
  • Grounding the Analysis of Gender and Crime: Accomplishing and Interpreting Qualitative Interview Research
  • Neurocriminological Approaches
  • Gun Prevalence, Homicide Rates and Causality: A GMM Approach to Endogeneity Bias

PART TWO: CONTEXTUALIZING CRIME IN SPACE AND TIME: NETWORKS, COMMUNITIES AND CULTURE

  • Multi-level Modeling and Criminological Inquiry
  • Examining the Role of the Environment in Crime Causation: Small Area Community Surveys and Space-Time Budgets
  • Social Networks and the Ecology of Crime: Using Social Network Data to Understand the Spatial Distribution of Crime
  • Using Census Data and Surveys to Study Labor Markets and Crime
  • Historical and Archival Research Methods

PART THREE: PERCEPTUAL DIMENSIONS OF CRIME

  • Ethnographic Photography in Criminological Research
  • Autoethnography
  • Interviewing Victims of State Violence
  • Questioning Homicide and the Media: Analysis of Content or Content Analysis?
  • Assessing Crime through International Victimization Surveys
  • In Search of the Fear of Crime: Using Interdisciplinary Insights to Improve the Conceptualisation and Measurement of Everyday Insecurities
  • Measuring Public Attitudes to Criminal Justice

PART FOUR: CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS: ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS

  • Researching Police Culture: A Longitudinal Mixed Method Approach
  • Quasi-experimental Research on Community Policing
  • Order in the Court: Using Ethnomethodology to Explore Juvenile Justice Settings
  • Evaluation Research and Probation: How to Distinguish High Performance from Low Performance Programmes
  • Conceptualising and Measuring the Quality of Prison Life
  • Comparing Justice and Crime across Cultures

PART FIVE: PREVENTING CRIME AND IMPROVING JUSTICE

  • Experimental Criminology and Restorative Justice: Principles of Developing and Testing Innovations in Crime Policy
  • Large-Scale Criminological Field Experiments
  • Meta-Analysis as a Method of Systematic Reviews
  • Crime Concentration and Police Work
  • Assessing the costs of Fraud
  • The Other Cultural Criminology: The Role of Action Research in Justice Work and Development
  • Feminist Approaches to Criminological Research
  • Research Ethics in Criminology
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The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research Methods

David Gadd , Susanne Karstedt , Steven F. Messner
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November 2011 | 552 pages | Sage UK

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Conducting research into crime and criminal justice carries its own unique challenges. The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research Methods focuses on the application of "methods," broadly understood, to address the core substantive questions that currently motivate contemporary criminological research. It maps a canon of methods that are more elaborated than in most other fields of social science, and the intellectual terrain of research problems with which criminologists are routinely confronted.

Drawing on exemplary studies, chapters in each section will illustrate the techniques (qualitative and quantitative) that are commonly applied in empirical studies, as well as the logic of criminological enquiry - the ways in which the specific nature of research questions dictate the kinds of data and analytic strategies required to effectively answer these questions. Organized into five sections, each of which is prefaced by an editorial introduction, the Handbook covers:

• Crime and Criminals

• Crime's Contexts: Networks, Cultures and Communities

• Perceptual Dimensions of Crime

• Criminal Justice Systems: Organizations and Institutions

• Preventing Crime and Improving Justice

Edited by leaders in the field of criminological research, and containing contributions by internationally renowned experts, The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research Methods is comprehensive, forward-thinking and broad in its enquiry. Written for graduates, researchers and academics in criminology, criminal justice, policing, law, and sociology, this exciting, much-needed addition to the criminological library is set to become a definitive resource for research.

 


Table Of Contents:

  • Editorial Introduction
  • PART ONE: CRIME AND CRIMINALS
  • Life Histories and Autobiographies as Ethnographic Data
  • Self-Report Surveys within Longitudinal Panel Designs
  • In-depth Interviewing and Psychosocial Case Study Analysis
  • Grounding the Analysis of Gender and Crime: Accomplishing and Interpreting Qualitative Interview Research
  • Neurocriminological Approaches
  • Gun Prevalence, Homicide Rates and Causality: A GMM Approach to Endogeneity Bias
  • PART TWO: CONTEXTUALIZING CRIME IN SPACE AND TIME: NETWORKS, COMMUNITIES AND CULTURE
  • Multi-level Modeling and Criminological Inquiry
  • Examining the Role of the Environment in Crime Causation: Small Area Community Surveys and Space-Time Budgets
  • Social Networks and the Ecology of Crime: Using Social Network Data to Understand the Spatial Distribution of Crime
  • Using Census Data and Surveys to Study Labor Markets and Crime
  • Historical and Archival Research Methods
  • PART THREE: PERCEPTUAL DIMENSIONS OF CRIME
  • Ethnographic Photography in Criminological Research
  • Autoethnography
  • Interviewing Victims of State Violence
  • Questioning Homicide and the Media: Analysis of Content or Content Analysis?
  • Assessing Crime through International Victimization Surveys
  • In Search of the Fear of Crime: Using Interdisciplinary Insights to Improve the Conceptualisation and Measurement of Everyday Insecurities
  • Measuring Public Attitudes to Criminal Justice
  • PART FOUR: CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS: ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS
  • Researching Police Culture: A Longitudinal Mixed Method Approach
  • Quasi-experimental Research on Community Policing
  • Order in the Court: Using Ethnomethodology to Explore Juvenile Justice Settings
  • Evaluation Research and Probation: How to Distinguish High Performance from Low Performance Programmes
  • Conceptualising and Measuring the Quality of Prison Life
  • Comparing Justice and Crime across Cultures
  • PART FIVE: PREVENTING CRIME AND IMPROVING JUSTICE
  • Experimental Criminology and Restorative Justice: Principles of Developing and Testing Innovations in Crime Policy
  • Large-Scale Criminological Field Experiments
  • Meta-Analysis as a Method of Systematic Reviews
  • Crime Concentration and Police Work
  • Assessing the costs of Fraud
  • The Other Cultural Criminology: The Role of Action Research in Justice Work and Development
  • Feminist Approaches to Criminological Research
  • Research Ethics in Criminology

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This remarkable collection of essays is criminological methodology like it ought to be. Reflecting the rich, methodological and substantive diversity of the field and the complexity of the criminological subject matter, these essays reveal the stories behind the stories criminologists tell. Essential reading for students and researchers alikeProfessor Shadd MarunaQueens University, Belfast The Sage Handbook of Criminological Research Methods by David Gadd, Susanne Karstedt and Steven Messner brings together a large group of experienced researchers from across the world to write about a wide range of innovative and important approaches to criminological enquiry. But the handbook is much more than a standard "research methods" book in two significant ways: first, it situates each research methods within its theoretical home. Second, the authors have succeeded in striking the right balance between presenting a necessary textbook approach to using a research method and providing an experienced researcher's perspective on the ins and outs of actually conducting research. The practical insights provided throughout the book, across a very broad range of criminological inquiry, make for an engaging readProfessor Lorraine MazerolleUniversity of Queensland, Australia Criminology is characterized by a bewildering array of research methods ranging from randomized control experiments to ethnographies. The editors boldly charge into this intellectual thicket and provide some much needed organization and clarity. The 33 substantive chapters, written by some of the most respected criminologists in the field, provide an excellent resource for researchers and will make a welcome addition for both undergraduate and graduate research methods coursesGary LaFree Director, START Center and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland

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