Adventures in Criminal Justice Research: Data Analysis for Windows® Using SPSS™ Versions 11.0, 11.5, or Higher

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

Adventures in Criminal Justice Research: Data Analysis for Windows (R) Using SPSS (TM) Versions 11.0/11.5, or Higher, Third Edition is the only book that guides students through a series of investigative adventures in criminal justice research using current General Social Survey data and the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study. Authors George W. Dowdall, Kim Logio, Earl Babbie, and Fred Halley offer students practical experience using version 11.0 of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), the most popular professional program available for criminal justice data analysis. Emphasizing use of the Web for research, the authors explain how to conduct surveys, analyze data, and present findings.

This Third Edition has been extensively updated to include

Step-by-step instruction in the use of SPSS 11.0 or higher Over 150 Windows screen captures to facilitate program navigation A CD-ROM with data sets, appendixes, learning exercises, and quizzes Variables from the 2000 General Social Survey Access to national and worldwide criminal justice data

Adventures in Criminal Justice Research can be used with SPSS version 11.0 or higher for Windows 95, 98, or XP. Encouraging the analysis of students′ own interests and insights, this concise text provides a hands-on introduction to the intellectual skills of conceptualization, measurement, and association.

Designed as a supplementary text for both beginning and advanced students in research methods for criminology and criminal justice courses, Adventures in Criminal Justice Research may also be of interest to students in research methods courses in public administration and sociology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761988084
• ISBN13: 9780761988083
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 0.8" x 8.5"