Criminological Skills and Research for Beginners : A Student's Guide (Paperback, 3 ed)

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Visual Tour (How to use this book)

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Part One, Study Skills for Criminology Students

1. Writing Skills and Essay Writing

2. Referencing

3. Revision Skills and Examination Techniques

4. Presentation Skills

Part Two, The Importance of Criminological Research

5. The context of criminological research: power, knowledge, politics, and values

6. The significance of criminological research: understanding the philosophical roots of our claims to know about crime in society

7. The ethics of criminological research

Part Three, Getting Going with Criminological Research

8. Planning: Where do research ideas come from? How do we ‘fine tune’ them?

9. Critiquing the literature and the process of writing your formal review

10. Theories, methods, and their relationships to theories of knowledge

11. Preparing for the practical challenges of real-world crime research

Part Four, Doing Criminological Research: Data Collection

12. Qualitative approaches to research

13. Questionnaires and surveys

14. Using documentary and secondary data sources

15. Using online and social media data sources

Part Five, Doing Criminological Research: Analysis and writing-up

16. Analysing the data: Quantitative analysis

17. Analysing the data: Qualitative analysis

18. Analysing the data: Documents, texts, and other data

19. Writing-up criminological research

Index