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Test Bank for The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice 7th Edition Bachman
Downloadable Instructor Test Bank for The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice 7th Edition By Ronet D. Bachman, Russell K. Schutt, ISBN: 9781544339122, ISBN: 9781544366906, ISBN: 9781544366913
Table of Content
Reasoning About the Social World
The Social Science Approach
Alternative Research Orientations
More on the Role of Values in Research
Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
Highlighting a Few Specific Types of Research Methods
Strengths and Limitations of Social Research
A Comment on Research in a Diverse Society
Conclusion
Identifying a Research Question
Social Research Foundations
The Role of Theory
Social Research Strategies
Social Research Standards
Conclusion
Historical Background
Ethical Principles
The Institutional Review Board
Research Involving Special Populations: Prisoners and Children
Conclusion
Concepts
Variables and Levels of Measurement
Did We Measure What We Wanted to Measure?
A Comment on Measurement in a Diverse Society
Conclusion
Sample Planning
Sampling Methods
Sampling Distributions
Conclusion
Causal Explanations
Criteria and Cautions for Nomothetic Causal Explanations
Research Designs and Causality
Units of Analysis and Errors in Causal Reasoning
Conclusion
History of Experiments
True Experiments
Quasi-Experiments
Validity in Experiments
External Events
Contamination
Treatment Misidentification
Factorial Survey Design
Ethical Issues in Experimental Research
Conclusion
Survey Research in the Social Sciences
Designing Questionnaires
Writing Survey Questions
Organization of the Questionnaire
The Cover Letter
Survey Designs
Errors in Survey Research
Ethical Issues in Survey Research
Conclusion
Fundamentals of Qualitative Methods
Participant Observation
Systematic Observation
Intensive Interviewing
Focus Groups
Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research
Conclusion
Analyzing Secondary Data
Historical and Comparative Methods
Oral History
Historical Process Research
Content Analysis
Methodological Issues When Using Secondary Data
Ethical Issues When Analyzing Available Data and Content
Conclusion
Social Network Analysis
Crime Mapping
Big Data
Ethical Issues When Using Big Data
Conclusion
A Brief History of Evaluation Research
Design Decisions
Evaluation in Action
Quasi-Experimental Designs in Evaluation Research
Nonexperimental Designs
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
Policy Research: Increasing Demand for Evidence-Based Policy
Basic Science or Applied Research
Ethics in Evaluation
Conclusion
What Are Mixed Methods?
Strengths and Limitations of Mixed Methods
Comparing Results Across Studies
Ethics and Mixed Methods
Conclusion
Introducing Statistics
Preparing Data for Analysis
Displaying Univariate Distributions
Summarizing Univariate Distributions
Cross-Tabulating Variables
Regression and Correlation
Analyzing Data Ethically: How Not to Lie About Relationships
Conclusion
Features of Qualitative Data Analysis
Qualitative Compared With Quantitative Data Analysis
Techniques of Qualitative Data Analysis
Alternatives in Qualitative Data Analysis
Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis
Ethics in Qualitative Data Analysis
Conclusion
Research Report Goals
Writing Is Not Easy!
Research Report Types
Displaying Research
Ethics, Politics, and Reporting Research
Plagiarism
Conclusion
