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Researchers on Research as a Process of Discovery
XXVI, 271 p. 30 illus., 16 illus. in color. online resource.
Th is book covers research design and methodology from a unique and engaging point of view, based on accounts from infl uential researchers across the fi eld of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Most books and articles about research in criminology and criminal justice focus on how the research was carried out: the data that were used, the methods that were applied, the results that were achieved. While these are all important, they do not present a complete picture. Envisioning Criminology: Researchers on Research as a Process of Discovery aims to fi ll that gap by providing nuance--the “back story” of why researchers selected particular problems, how they approached those problems, and how their background, training, and experience aff ected the approaches they took. As the contributions in this book demonstrate, research is not a cut-and-dried process, as all too many methods books imply, but a living, breathing–and in some ways quirky– process that is infl uenced by non-“scientifi c” factors. Th e path taken by a researcher is important, and an appreciation of his or her background, experience, knowledge–and the setbacks and triumphs of performing the research–provides a much more complete picture of how research is done. Th e twenty-eight chapters in this book describe the back stories of their authors, which serve to enlighten readers about the interplay between the personal and the methodological. While primarily aimed as a textbook, this work will also be of interest to researchers in Criminology and Criminal Justice, and related Social and Behavioral Science fi elds as an account of how seminal researchers in the fi eld developed their key contributions.
Foreword Alfred Blumstein -- Chapter 1: Introduction Michael D. Maltz and Stephen K. Rice -- Section 1:Voices from the Street -- Chapter 2: A Conversation with Street Daddy: Pulling Back the Curtain on Twenty Years of Ethnography Scott H. Decker and Dietrich Lester Smith -- Chapter 3: Warping Time and Space: What It Really Takes too do Action Research in Crime Control David Kennedy -- Chapter 4: Observations on the Making of a Police Officer Peter Moskos -- Chapter 5: Cure Violence—Treating Violent Behavior as a Contagious Disease Gary Slutkin, Charles Ransford and R. Brent Decker -- Chapter 6: Why Criminals Tell Us the Truth Sudhir Venkatesh -- Section 2: Generating New Data -- Chapter 7: Gender & Sexuality as Methodological Confounds in the Study of Transgender Prisoners Valerie Jenness -- Chapter 8: Come Along and Ride on a Fantastic Voyage’: My Journey through Rap Music Lyrics Charis E. Kubrin -- Chapter 9: Getting Emotional Stephen K. Rice -- Chapter 10: The Making of the Chicago Project Robert J. Sampson -- Chapter 11: Surveying Police Officers Wesley G. Skogan -- Section 3: Mining Records -- Chapter 12: Criminology, Terrorism and Serendipity Gary LaFree -- Chapter 13: Playing in the Sandbox: A Methodological Conversation Nicole Rafter and Amy Farrell -- Chapter 14: Getting Things Wrong Really Does Help, as Long as You Keep Trying to Get Things Right: Developing Theories about Why Homicide Rates Rise and Fall Randolph Roth -- Chapter 15: Twists, Turns and Tears on the Path to the Cycle of Violence Cathy Spatz Widom -- Section 4: Analyses of Existing Data -- Chapter 16: Research Adventures with ‘Kinda Big’ Data: Using NIBRS to Study Crime Lynn A. Addington -- Chapter 17: Elusive Facts about Gun Violence: Where Good Surveys Go Bad Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig -- Chapter 18: Solving Criminological Puzzles Kenneth C. Land -- Chapter 19: Upon Becoming a Criminologist…And Spending 30 Years Thinking about Interesting Things Pamela K. Lattimore -- Chapter 20: The Devil is in the Details: Crime and Victimization Research with the National Crime Victimization Survey Janet L. Lauritsen -- Chapter 21: What’s the Question? Ask That and You Will Follow the Path of Discovery Alex R. Piquero -- Chapter 22: Predicting Risk: Who Knew It Was Such a Risky Business? Susan Turner -- Section 5: Visual and Geographical Tools -- Chapter 23: Systems Modeling to Inform Drug Policy: A Personal Odyssey Jonathan P. Caulkins -- Chapter 24: Practitioner to Academic: An Interdisciplinary View from both Sides of the Looking Glass Elizabeth R. Groff -- Chapter 25: I Want You to Wear Something for Me’: On the In Situ Measurement of Police Stress and the Potential Rewards of Channeling One’s Inner Experimentalist Matthew J. Hickman -- Chapter 26: Sometimes Pictures Tell the Story Michael D. Maltz -- Chapter 27: Rounding Up Twice the Usual Number of Suspects D. Kim Rossmo -- Chapter 28: Small Worlds of Crime and Criminal Justice Interventions: Discovering Crime Hot Spots David Weisburd.
edited by Michael D. Maltz, Stephen K. Rice.
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