This class considers the analysis of data on a study of crime using a database especially assembled for this course. Students develop research hypotheses, conduct analyses, and write papers for submission to professional journals. This course covers at an intermediate level, data analysis problems in quasi-experimental designs and theory testing in criminology. A practicum with the student in teaching, guided by an experienced teacher with whom the student meets from time to time for discussion of readings and classroom experiences. Analysis and evaluation of literature within a substantive area of criminology.
Enrollment requires approval of the major professor.
A course with contents determined by the student in consultation with the instructor, with whom the student meets regularly for supervision of the study. An examination of the conceptual, logical, and empirical adequacy of major criminological theories. Encourages advanced students to approach the multifaceted problem of research as a set of interrelated issues ranging from tasks of concept formation and theory construction through research design and data collection to the assessment and analysis of the generated data. A survey of advanced data analysis approach used in criminological research. The course will generally cover problems of constructing indices and scales, procedures for analyzing limited dependent variable, structural equation models, models with latent variable and time series analysis.