David Gadd & Susanne Karstedt 
The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research Methods [EPUB ebook] 

Conducting research into crime and criminal justice carries unique challenges. This
Handbook focuses on the application of ′methods′ to address the core substantive questions that currently motivate contemporary criminological research. It maps a canon of methods that are more elaborated than in most other fields of social science, and the intellectual terrain of research problems with which criminologists are routinely confronted.

Drawing on exemplary studies, chapters in each section illustrate the techniques (qualitative and quantitative) that are commonly applied in empirical studies, as well as the logic of criminological enquiry. Organized into five sections, each prefaced by an editorial introduction, the Handbook covers:

• Crime and Criminals

• Contextualizing Crimes in Space and Time: Networks, Communities and Culture

• Perceptual Dimensions of Crime

• Criminal Justice Systems: Organizations and Institutions

• Preventing Crime and Improving Justice

Edited by leaders in the field of criminological research, and with contributions from internationally renowned experts, The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research Methods is set to become the definitive resource for postgraduates, researchers and academics in criminology, criminal justice, policing, law, and sociology.

David Gadd is Professor of Criminology at Manchester University School of Law where he is also Director of the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Susanne Karstedt has a Chair in Criminology and Criminological Justice at the University of Leeds.

Steven F. Messner is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York.

Зміст

Editorial Introduction – David Gadd, Susanne Karstedt, Steven F. Messner

PART ONE: CRIME AND CRIMINALS

Life Histories and Autobiographies as Ethnographic Data – Neal Shover

Self-Report Surveys within Longitudinal Panel Designs – Marvin D Krohn, Terence P Thornberry, Kristin A Bell, Alan J Lizotte, Matthew D Phillips

In-depth Interviewing and Psychosocial Case Study Analysis – David Gadd

Grounding the Analysis of Gender and Crime: Accomplishing and Interpreting Qualitative Interview Research – Jody Miller

Neurocriminological Approaches – Yu Gao, Andrea L Glenn, Melissa Peskin, Anna Rudo-Hutt, Robert A Schug, Yaling Yang, Adrian Raine

Gun Prevalence, Homicide Rates and Causality: A GMM Approach to Endogeneity Bias – Tomislav Kovandzic, Mark E Schaffer, Gary Kleck

PART TWO: CONTEXTUALIZING CRIME IN SPACE AND TIME: NETWORKS, COMMUNITIES AND CULTURE

Multi-level Modeling and Criminological Inquiry – Eric P Baumer amd Ashley N Arnio

Examining the Role of the Environment in Crime Causation: Small Area Community Surveys and Space-Time Budgets – Per-Olof H Wikström, Kyle Treiber, Beth Hardie

Social Networks and the Ecology of Crime: Using Social Network Data to Understand the Spatial Distribution of Crime – George E Tita and Adam Michael Boessen

Using Census Data and Surveys to Study Labor Markets and Crime – Robert D Crutchfield and Suzanna R Ramirez

Historical and Archival Research Methods – Barry Godfrey

PART THREE: PERCEPTUAL DIMENSIONS OF CRIME

Ethnographic Photography in Criminological Research – Cécile Van de Voorde

Autoethnography – Jeff Ferrell

Interviewing Victims of State Violence – Elizabeth Stanley

Questioning Homicide and the Media: Analysis of Content or Content Analysis? – Moira Peelo and Keith Soothill

Assessing Crime through International Victimization Surveys – Pat Mayhew and Jan Van Dijk

In Search of the Fear of Crime: Using Interdisciplinary Insights to Improve the Conceptualisation and Measurement of Everyday Insecurities – Emily Gray, Jonathan Jackson and Stephen Farrall

Measuring Public Attitudes to Criminal Justice – Julian Roberts, Matrina Feilzer, Mike Hough

PART FOUR: CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS: ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS

Researching Police Culture: A Longitudinal Mixed Method Approach – Janet Chan

Quasi-experimental Research on Community Policing – Wesley G Skogan

Order in the Court: Using Ethnomethodology to Explore Juvenile Justice Settings – Aaron Kupchik, Joseph De Angelis and Nicole L Bracy

Evaluation Research and Probation: How to Distinguish High Performance from Low Performance Programmes – Karin Tusinski Miofsky and James M Byrne

Conceptualising and Measuring the Quality of Prison Life – Alison Liebling, Susie Hulley and Ben Crewe

Comparing Justice and Crime across Cultures – Susanne Karstedt

PART FIVE: PREVENTING CRIME AND IMPROVING JUSTICE

Experimental Criminology and Restorative Justice: Principles of Developing and Testing Innovations in Crime Policy – Heather Strang and Lawrence W Sherman

Large-Scale Criminological Field Experiments – Manuel Eisner, Tina Malti, Denis Ribeaud

Meta-Analysis as a Method of Systematic Reviews – Martin Schmucker and Friedrich Lösel

Crime Concentration and Police Work – Ken Pease

Assessing the costs of Fraud – Michael Levi

The Other Cultural Criminology: The Role of Action Research in Justice Work and Development – Cyndi Banks

Feminist Approaches to Criminological Research – Gail Mason and Julie Stubbs

Research Ethics in Criminology – Mark Israel and Iain Hay

Про автора

Steven F. Messner is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York.