Adventures in Criminal Justice Research: Data Analysis for Windows 95/98 Using SPSS Versions 7.5, 8.0, or Higher

By Earl R. Babbie, George W. Dowdall, Kim A. Logio

The only book which teaches students how to analyze issues in criminal justice using current General Social Survey (GSS) data, as well as the most authoritative national study of drug and alcohol use on college campuses, the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study. Teaches students how to use SPSS for Windows and how to conduct and analyze their own surveys. Shrinkwrapped with a disk which includes a GSS file; a College Alcohol Study data set; and criminal justice and juvenile justice data sets. Provides step-by-step instructions illustrated with over 180 Windows screens so students always know what they should be seeing on their computers. A WWW site, created and maintained for this text, has up-to-the-minute links to criminal justice data and information all over the world: http: //www.sju.edu/ gdowdall/dowdall.html.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761986251
• ISBN13: 9780761986256
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 1.0" x 8.8"