This book offers the most comprehensive and straightforward coverage of doing qualitative research on the market, now with a new chapter on Action Research. The author's central purpose remains a desire to instruct inexperienced researchers in ways of effectively collecting, organizing, and making sense of qualitative data, while stressing the ...
This new edition of Criminal Investigation presents the basic principles of criminal investigation, including current investigative procedures used in the handling of crime scenes, interviewing and interrogating suspects and witnesses, gathering and preserving evidence, conducting surveillance, writing reports, establishing modus operandi, and ...
This comprehensive text provides a broad overview of television criticism through the explanation of theoretical foundations, analyses of critical approaches, and sample critical essays. The text is organized by critical method, but includes an alternative table of contents for instructors who prefer to teach by genre.
This text was written to provide both students and instructors of research methods with various options to learn and practice many frequently used basic techniques. Most traditional research methods texts provide students with a plethora of information about a wide range of topics by adding a few questions at the end of each chapter. The study ...
"Policing in Modern Society" blends both practical and theoretical issues to create a well organized text with the necessary balance for the future criminal justice professional. The author's writing style draws heavily upon the use of contemporary examples taken from movies, television and the print media. The instructors guide includes chapter ...
A CD-ROM developed specifically for the introductory criminal justice course. The CD-ROM places students in various roles as they explore all aspects of the CJ system: policing/investigations, courts, sentencing, and corrections. (Stand-Alone Version).
Research Methods for Criminal Justice and the Social Sciences combines a traditional research book with exercises that allow students to experience research in a controlled environment. It is a companion methods/manual for use with most traditional social scientific research textbooks. This book offers readers basic information about ...
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