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  • Women in American Prisons

    Sex, Social Life, and Families

    by Mark S. Fleisher ...
    A fascinating look at the social life of women in prison. Intended to shine the light on prison social life in the face of allegations of all sorts of misconduct and deviant behaviors. ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Studying Youth Gangs

    by James F. Short Jr., Brendan D. Dooley, Mark S. Fleisher, John M. Hagedorn, Gina Penly Hall, David S. Kirk, Malcolm W. Klein, Stephen E. Lankenau, Alan J. Lizotte0, David E. Olson1, Andrew V. Papachristos2, Bill Sanders3, Pete Simi4, RolandoVillarreal Sosa5, Irving A. Spergel6, Mercer L. Sullivan7, Terence P. Thornberry8, Kwai Ming Wa9, Robert White0 ...
    Series series Violence Prevention and Policy
    In this absorbing new collection, Short and Hughes and their distinguished coauthors investigate why and how we study youth gangs. Over the last half-century of research by criminologists, sociologists, and gang experts, investigations of gang behavior have become increasingly specialized and isolated from studies of delinquency and deviance. The authors challenge popular and inaccurate ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • European Street Gangs and Troublesome Youth Groups

    by Francesca Angelini, Paul Bradshaw, Yngve Carlsson, Finn-Aage Esbensen, Mark S. Fleisher, Uberto Gatti, Hans-Juergen Kerner, Malcolm W. Klein, Inger-Lise Lien, Gilberto Marengo, Natalia Melchiorre, Kerstin Reich, Alexander Salagaev, Marcello Sasso, Alexander Shashkin, Irina Sherbakova, Elias Touryanskiy, Frank van Gemert, Elmar G. M. Weitekamp ...
    Series series Violence Prevention and Policy
    Although a well-known phenomenon in the U.S., street gangs and other violent and criminal groups_including racist groups_exist also in European cities and countries, and are of increasing concern in global law enforcement. The eminent contributors to this volume present valuable new data on European youth gangs, describing important characteristics of these groups, and their similarities and ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Using Methods in the Field

    A Practical Introduction and Casebook

    by H. Russell Bernard, Gery Ryan, Thomas Weisner, Mark S. Fleisher, Jennifer A. Harrington, Juliana Flinn, Gun Roos, Allen Johnson, Robert C. Harman, Carole E. Hill, W. Penn Handwerker, Douglas Caulkins, Javier Garcia de Alba Garcia, Ana Leticia Salcedo Rocha, Guadarrama L. A. Vargas, Trini Garro, Jeffrey C. Johnson, David C. Griffith, Lauren Clark, Carol P. Vojir, Nancy O. Hester, Roxie Foster, Karen L. Miller, Stephen P. Borgatti ...
    Methods textbooks generally offer prescriptive advice on how to perform certain techniques, how to develop specific strategies, how to analyze your results. But, as all experienced ethnographers know, this fine-sounding advice rarely provides ample guidance in dealing with real people in real field settings. That is where this casebook differs. Selecting many key methods regularly used by ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Case Study Research and Applications

    Design and Methods

    by Robert K. Yin ...
    Winner of the 2019 McGuffey Longevity Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA)Recognized as one of the most cited methodology books in the social sciences, the Sixth Edition of Robert K. Yin′s bestselling text provides a complete portal to the world of case study research. With the integration of 11 applications in this edition, the book gives readers access to exemplary case ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Research Methods for Everyday Life

    Blending Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

    by Scott W. VanderStoep, Deidre D. Johnson ...
    Series Book 32 - Research Methods for the Social Sciences
    This book offers an innovative introduction to social research. The book explores all stages of the research process and it features both quantitative and qualitative methods. Research design topics include sampling techniques, choosing a research design, and determining research question that inform public opinion and direct future studies. Throughout the book, the authors provide vivid and ... Read more

    $76.00 USD

  • Crime in Canada

    by Diane Crocker ...
    In her latest book, sociologist Diane Crocker challenges the popular perception that crime in Canada is on the rise and argues that public opinion is becoming a bigger barrier to achieving justice than the actual extent of crime. Using the most current data available, her research reveals how we can better assess the effectiveness of crime control policies, as well as our own responses to crime, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Evidence-Based Policy

    A Practical Guide to Doing It Better

    by Nancy Cartwright, Jeremy Hardie ...
    Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality--of course, policy should be based on the facts. But are the methods that policy makers rely on to gather and analyze evidence the right ones? In Evidence-Based Policy, Nancy Cartwright, an eminent scholar, and Jeremy ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Criminology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Tim Newburn ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Crime is big news. From murder to theft to drug gangs, crime and criminal justice affect the lives of millions of people worldwide. Hardly surprisingly, crime has been pushed high up the public policy agenda across the world. But how can we measure crime, or evaluate the effectiveness of preventative measures? Does the threat of prison reduce someone's likelihood of reoffending, or would ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Qualitative Research Design

    An Interactive Approach

    by Joseph A. Maxwell ...
    Series series Applied Social Research Methods
    Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach provides researchers and students with a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. It shows how the components of design interact with each other, and provides a strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components, highlighting key design issues. Written in an informal, jargon-free ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • The Effects of Imprisonment

    Edited by Alison Liebling, Shadd Maruna ...
    Series series Cambridge Criminal Justice Series
    As the number of prisoners in the UK, USA and elsewhere continues to rise, so have concerns risen about the damaging short term and long term effects this has on prisoners. This book brings together a group of leading authorities in this field, both academics and practitioners, to address the complex issues this has raised, to assess the implications and results of research in this field, and to ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Participant Observation

    A Guide for Fieldworkers

    by Billie R. DeWalt, Kathleen Musante (DeWalt) ...
    Participant observation is the foundation of ethnographic research design and supports and complements other types of qualitative and quantitative data collection. Qualitative research in such diverse areas as anthropology, sociology, education, medicine draws on the insights gained through the use of participant observation. The authors have written a guide to the collection of systematic data in ... Read more

    $55.09 USD