Doing Research On Crime And Justice

Doing Research On Crime And Justice

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This unique new book brings together the accumulated wisdom of some ofBritain's leading and best established criminologists each of them an expert intheir field and of international standing together with the fresh experiencesof a new and rising generation of scholars. The result is a criminologist'sguide to the real problems and issues of conducting research and framing aresearch project in the field of criminology and criminal justice.It is a common place criticism of the criminological and criminal justiceresearch literature along with other research literatures in the socialsciences that published accounts of methodology conceal or gloss over issueswhich can be exceedingly problematic for researchers in the field. Moreover, fewmethodology textbooks give any serious attention to the problems which noviceresearchers will encounter when translating neat and tidy textbook methodologiesinto the always contingent and often compromising world of field work practice.The contributors to this volume have attempted to bring their wide variety ofexperience across the main spectrum of criminological and criminal justiceresearch to bear on these issues in ways that it is hoped will really connectwith the problems faced by those embarking on research for the first time, butwhich will also be of interest to all those engaged in the research process inthese fields.The book is organised in four sections which move from the general to theparticular: the first section provides a practical guide to the researchprocess, and overviews of the relationship between theory and research, and ofthe political context within which research is carried out. Sections two andthree are intended to give a clear and authoritative guide to the main landmarksof accomplished research in criminology and criminal justice, as well as themethodological problems encountered, and the prospects for future research. Thefourth and final section presents the research experiences of 'new researcher

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