The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Ronet Bachman, Ph.D.,is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. She is co-author of Statistical Methods for Crime and Criminal Justice, Third Edition. (McGraw-Hill, 2008), and co-editor of Explaining Crime and Criminology: Essays in Contemporary Criminal Theory (Roxbury, 2000). In addition, she is co-author of Murder American Style (Wadsworth, 2002), Culture, Stress and Aggression (Yale U. Press, 2004), and co-author of Violence: The Enduring Problem (SAGE, 2014) as well as SAGE’s successful research methods texts in criminology and criminology and criminal justice. She has written numerous articles and papers that examine the epidemiology and etiology of violence, with a particular emphasis on women, the elderly, and minority populations. She is currently the Co-Pl of a National Institute of Justice—funded study to examine the trajectories of drug-involved offenders 10 years after release from prison using a mixed-method design.Russell K. Schutt(PhD, MA, BA, University of Illinois at Chicago; postdoctoral fellow in the Sociology of Social Control Training Program at Yale University) is professor and chair of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and lecturer on sociology in the Department of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. In addition toInvestigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Researchand its numerous co-authored adaptations for other disciplines, his books includeHomelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness(Harvard University Press) andOrganization in a Changing Environment(SUNY Press). Dr. Schutt’s scholarship focuses on the bidirectional relationship between individuals and their social environment; its consequences for organizational change, cognitive functioning, and individual behavior; and its predictors in individual orientations and community contexts. His related articles have been published in journals ranging from theAmerican Journal of Sociology,Social Problems, Law and Society Review, and theJournal of Offender Rehabilitationto theJournal of Community Health,Journal of Community Psychology,Schizophrenia Bulletin,Women and Health,Evaluation & Program Planning, and theJournal of Sociology and Social Welfare. His major research projects have been funded by the Veterans Health Administration, the National Cancer Institute, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the National Institute of Mental Health, the John E. Fetzer Institute, and state and local sources.