Research Methods in Criminal Justice: An Introduction (Nelson-Hall Series in Law, Crime, and Justice)

By Steven M. Cox, Jack D. Fitzgerald, Steven M. Fitzgerald, Jack D.; Cox

The edition of this comprehensive introduction to the basics of criminal justice research is substantially expanded and refined. The authors introduce simple research methodologies and proceed to complicated ones, describe elementary descriptive and inferential statistics, demonstrate research techniques, and examine the various scientific perspectives used in research. This approach encourages students to think critically about the research they encounter in their studies and also about the way they conduct their own research.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830413847
• ISBN13: 9780830413843
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Best in its field.

Invaluable for any would be sociologist or anyone else interested in socio-criminolgy or deviance or statistics. Both authors display incredible method, intelligence, and craft. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and it was assigned!