The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice with SPSS Student Version 15.0
Ronet Bachman, PhD,is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. She is coauthor ofStatistical Methods for Crime and Criminal Justice(3rd ed.), and coeditor ofExplaining Crime and Criminology: Essays in Contemporary Criminal Theory.In addition, she is author ofDeath and Violence on the Reservation;coauthor ofStress, Culture, and Aggression in the United States;coauthor ofMurder American Style;and coauthor ofViolence: The Enduring Problemas well as 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-PI 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, Ph.D.,is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and Lecturer on Sociology in the Department of Psychiatry (Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center) at the Harvard Medical School. He completed his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. (1977) degrees at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Sociology of Social Control Training Program at Yale University (1977–1979). In addition toInvestigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research,now in its 6thedition,Making Sense of the Social World3/e (with Dan Chambliss), and adaptations for the fields of social work (with Ray Engel) and criminology/criminal justice (with Ronet Bachman), he is the author ofOrganization in a Changing Environment,coeditor ofThe Organizational Response to Social Problems,and coauthor ofResponding to the Homeless: Policy and Practice. He has authored and coauthored numerous journal articles, book chapters, and research reports on homelessness, service preferences and satisfaction, mental health, organizations, law, and teaching research methods. His recent funded research experience includes a National Cancer Institute-funded study of community health workers and recruitment for cancer clinical trials, and a National Institute of Mental Health-funded study of housing alternatives for homeless persons diagnosed with severe mental illness. His publications in peer-reviewed journals range in focus from the effect of social context on cognition, satisfaction and functioning to the service preferences of homeless persons and service personnel, the admission practices of craft unions, and the social factors in legal decisions.