Research methods in criminal justice and criminology

✍ Scribed by Hagan, Frank E

• Book ID: 110243312
• Publisher: Boston, MA : Allyn and Bacon
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780205366774

✦ Synopsis

13. Policy analysis and evaluation research -- Policy analysis -- Evaluation research -- Policy experiments -- Policy analysis : the case of the National Institute of Justice research program -- NIJ mission statement -- NIJ research priorities -- A systems model of evaluation research -- Types of evaluation research -- Will the findings be used? -- Is the project evaluable? -- Who can do this work? -- Steps in evaluation research -- Problem formulation -- Design of instruments -- Research design -- Data collection -- Data analysis -- Utilization -- What works in criminal justice? -- Exhibit 13.1. Preventing crime : what works, what doesn't, what's promising -- Obstacles to evaluation research -- Researchers and host agencies -- Summary -- Key concepts -- Review questions -- Appendix A. How to write the research report -- Appendix B. Table of random numbers -- Appendix C. Statistics : an addendum to chapter 12 -- Measures of central tendency for grouped data -- Standard deviations for grouped data -- Raw score approach -- Deviation score approach -- Calculation of ANOVA -- Regression calculations -- A test of significance for gamma -- Appendix D. Answers to pop quizzes in chapter 12 -- Appendix E. Normal curve areas -- Appendix F. Distribution of chi-square (X℗ø) -- Appendix G. Proposal writing and evaluation -- Proposal writing -- Funding agencies -- Grantsmanship -- Basic elements of a proposal -- NIJ proposal format and content -- Evaluation of research proposals -- NIJ evaluation of proposals -- References -- Glossary -- Name index -- Subject index