Fundamentals of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice

CHAPTER I: SCIENCE, SOCIETY, AND CRIMINOLOGICAL RESEARCH How to Read a Research Article CHAPTER II: THE PROCESS AND PROBLEMS OF CRIMINOLOGICAL RESEARCH Reading 1: A Qualitative Assessment of Stress Perceptions Among Members of a Homicide Unit by Dean A. Dabney, Heith Copes, Richard Tewksbury, and Shila R. Hawk-Tourtelot Reading 2: Exploring the Utility of Self-Control Theory for Risky Behavior and Minor Delinquency Among Chinese Adolescents by Yi-Fen Lu, Yi-Chun Yu, Ling Ren, and Ineke Haen Marshall CHAPTER III: RESEARCH ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHIES Reading 3: Contemporary Comment: Covert Ethnography in Criminology: A Submerged Yet Creative Tradition by David Calvey Reading 4: Research Ethics in Victimization Studies: Widening the Lens, by James J. Clark and Robert Walker CHAPTER IV: CONCEPTUALIZATION AND MEASUREMENT Reading 5: Violence Against College Women: A Review to Identify Limitations in Defining the Problem and Inform Future Research, by Callie Marie Rennison and Lynn A. Addington Reading 6: American Public Opinion About Prisons, by Kevin H. Wozniak CHAPTER V: SAMPLING Reading 7: The Relationship Between Hate Groups and Far-Right Ideological Violence, by Amy Adamczyk, Jeff Gruenewald, Steven M. Chermak, and Joshua D. Freilich Reading 8: The Enemy Is Among Us: Media Images of Police in South Africa During the Transition From Apartheid to Democracy, by Cindy Stewart CHAPTER VI: CAUSATION AND EXPERIMENTS Reading 9: The Causal Impact of Exposure to Deviant Peers: An Experimental Investigation, by Ray Paternoster, Jean Marie McGloin, Holly Nguyen, and Kyle J. Thomas Reading 10: Injuries to Officers and Suspects in Police Use-of-Force Cases: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation, by Bruce Taylor and Daniel J. Woods CHAPTER VII: SURVEY RESEARCH Reading 11: Global Efforts to Engage Men in Preventing Violence Against Women: An International Survey, by Ericka Kimball, Jeffrey L. Edleson, Richard M. Tolman, Tova B. Neugut, and Juliana Carlson Reading 12: Does the Front Line Reflect the Party Line? The Criticization of Punishment and Prison Officers' Perspectives Towards Incarceration, by Amy E. Lerman and Joshua Page CHAPTER VIII: QUALITATIVE METHODS AND DATA ANALYSIS Reading 13: Understanding Success and Nonsuccess in the Drug Court, by Andrew Fulkerson, Linda D. Keena, and Erin O'Brien Reading 14: Fighting for Her Honor: Girls' Violence in Distressed Communities, by Katherine Irwin and Corey Adler CHAPTER IX: ANALYZING CONTENT Reading 15: Aggression and Sexual Behavior in Best-Selling Pornography Videos: A Content Analysis Update, by Ana J. Bridges, Robert Wosnitzer, Erica Scharrer, Chyng Sun, and Rachael Liberman Reading 16: Community and Campus Crime: A Geospatial Examination of the Clery Act, by Matt R. Nobles, Kathleen A. Fox, David N. Khey, and Alan J. Lizotte CHAPTER X: EVALUATION AND POLICY ANALYSIS Reading 17: The Effect of Police Body-Worn Cameras on Use, by Barak Ariel, William A. Farrar, and Alex Sutherland Reading 18: Short- and Long-Term Outcome Results from a Multisite Evaluation of the G.R.E.A.T. Program, by Finn-Aage Esbensen, D.Wayne Osgood, Dana Peterson, Terrance J. Taylor, and Dena C. Carson CHAPTER XI: MIXING AND COMPARING METHODS Reading 19: Policing "the Patch": Police Response to Rapid Population Growth in Oil Boomtowns in Western North Dakota, by Carol A. Archbold, Thorvald Dahle, and Rachel Jordan Reading 20: The Recidivism Rates of Female Sexual Offenders Are Low: A Meta-Analysis, by Franca Cortoni, R. Karl Hanson, and Marie-Eve Coache CHAPTER XII: REPORTING RESEARCH RESULTS