Table of Contents

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-Ève Coache
CHAPTER XII: REPORTING RESEARCH RESULTS

About the Author

Ronet D. Bachman, PhD, worked as a statistician at the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S.

Department of Justice, before going back to an academic career; she is now a professor in the

Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. She is coauthor

of Statistical Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice and coeditor of Explaining Criminals

and Crime: Essays in Contemporary Criminal Theory. In addition, she is the author of Death and

Violence on the Reservation and coauthor of Stress, Culture, and Aggression; Murder American

Style; and Violence: The Enduring Problem, along with numerous articles and papers that examine

the epidemiology and etiology of violence, with particular emphasis on women, the elderly,

and minority populations as well as research examining desistance from crime. Her most recent

federally funded research was a mixed-methods study that examined the long-term desistance

trajectories of criminal justice involved drug-involved individuals who have been followed with

both quantitative and interview data for nearly thirty years. Her current state-funded research is

assessing the needs of violent crime victims, especially those whose voices are rarely heard such

as loved ones of homicide victims.

 

Russell K. Schutt, PhD, is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he received the 2007 Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Service and taught from 1979 to 2022. He is also a Clinical Research Scientist I at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a Lecturer (part-time) in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. He completed his BA, MA, and PhD degrees at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Sociology of Social Control Training Program at Yale University (where he met Dan). In addition to ten editions of Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research and one of Understanding the Social World, as well as coauthored versions for the fields of social work, criminal justice, psychology, and education, his other books include Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness (2011), Social Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society (coedited, 2015), and Organization in a Changing Environment (1986). He has authored and coauthored more than 65 peer reviewed journal articles, as well as book chapters and research reports on homelessness, mental health, organizations, law, and teaching research methods. His currently a Dual Principal Investigator (with Matcheri Keshavan, MD) in randomized comparative effectiveness trial of two socially-oriented interventions to improve community functioning among persons diagnosed with serious mental illness, funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). His other recently concluded research includes co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation-funded study of the social impact of the pandemic in Boston, and co-investigator on a Veterans Health Administration-funded study of peer support.  His earlier research has been funded by the National Cancer Institute, the Veterans Health Administration, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Fetzer Institute, and state agencies. Details are available at https://blogs.umb.edu/russellkschutt/.

Peggy Plass has a PhD in Sociology from University of New Hampshire, where she worked in the Family Research Lab. She teaches in Track A of the major (the Track A Intro foundation course, along with classes on Victimization of Children, Victimology, and Organized Crime in recent years).  She also teaches Research Methods for all 3 tracks.  Her research interests are in the areas of criminal victimization of children, property crime victimization, domestic violence, and evaluation of offender rehabilitation programs.