Methods of Criminology and Criminal Justice Research

Mathieu Deflem editor Derek MD Silva editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited

Published:26th Aug '19

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Methods of Criminology and Criminal Justice Research cover

The eleven chapters in this volume of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance discuss a variety of issues of methodological significance in research in the fields of criminology and criminal justice studies. As scholarly work on various aspects of crime, deviance, criminal justice, and social control has progressed tremendously in recent decades, both in terms of scope as well as with respect to theoretical approaches, the employed methods of investigation have also broadened and advanced to be as sophisticated as those used in any other area of contemporary social-science inquiry. The authors in this volume demonstrate the methodological maturity and diversity of current empirical research in criminology and criminal justice in a number of areas, such as general trends of crime, criminal networks, violence against women, sex work, elder financial exploitation, school safety, immigrant detention, extremism on the internet, and human trafficking. 
Presenting a state-of-the-art overview of criminological and criminal justice methodologies today, this book is of interest to a wide range of scholars and students in the fields of criminology, sociology, justice policy, and criminal justice.

Beginning with the understanding that a discipline's fundamental theories determine what questions researchers ask and what methods they use to answer them, scholars of criminology and criminal justice offer an overview of the value and use of a variety of methods and research techniques in those fields. In sections on general patterns and trends, special groups and problems, and crossing boundaries, they consider such topics as whether crime is rising or falling: a comparison of police-recorded crime and victimization surveys, innovative methods of gathering survey data on violence against women, methods of male sex work research: recommendations and future research opportunities, methodological challenges in collaborative research with immigrant women experiencing intimate partner violence in Canada, and agency records as a method for examining human trafficking. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *

ISBN: 9781787698666

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 293g

216 pages