Research Methodologies in Criminology

✍ Scribed by David A. Yeboah

• Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 202
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The incidence and prevalence of crime and criminal victimization is becoming increasingly rife in most societies, developed and developing. Most governments and their relevant departments, policy makers, researchers, and related interest groups, are striving to develop and implement policies, programs and services to control crime. Research provides an added impetus in this endeavor and provides the evidence based analysis and essential data required for effective development and implementation of policies, services and programs. This book provides researchers in criminology with the necessary analytical tools to enable them to function effectively. It introduces new researchers to the available methodologies in criminoological researach and provides senior professionals with detailed approaches to successful research in criminology. Students, teachers, and researchers will find the book very useful, informative and highly resourceful.

✦ Subjects

Criminology -- Research -- Methodology.