Doing research on crime and justice
By: edited by Roy D. King and Emma Wincup
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9780585361260
Subjects: Crime; Research; Administration of Criminal justice; Criminalité; Recherche; Justice pénale; Administration; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Criminology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The relationship between theory and research in criminology / Anthony Bottoms; title: The politics of criminological research / Rod Morgan; title: Researching the state of crime : local, national, and international victim surveys / Pat Mayhew; title: Researching "street criminals" : a neglected art / Mike Maguire; title: Researching serious crime / Dick Hobbs; title: Researching victims / Sandra Walklate; title: Police research / Robert Reiner; title: Research on the criminal courts / John Baldwin; title: Research on community penalties / George Mair; title: Doing research in prisons / Roy D. King; title: "Down and outers" : fieldwork amongst street homeless people / Julia Wardhaugh; title: Breaking in: researching criminal justice institutions for women / Catrin Smith and Emma Wincup.; title: Mafia, methodology, and "alien" culture / Patricia Rawlinson; title: Sad, bad, and (sometimes) dangerous to know : street corner research with prostitutes, punters, and the police / Karen Sharpe; title: Going around the houses : researching in high crime communities / Lynn Hancock; title: Suspect data : arresting research / Carole Adams; title: Being "a nosy bloody cow" : ethical and methodological issues in researching domestic violence / Carolyn Hoyle; title: The numbers game : quantitative research on ethnicity and criminal justice / Bonny Mhlanga; title: Researching the powerful : towards a political economy of method? / Dave Whyte.