Crime and Justice Research Methods

Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Methods

Peter B. Kraska

W. Lawrence Neuman

Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Methods truly engages students to learn an essential yet difficult subject. This text contains real-life examples, accessibility without sacrificing rigor, cutting-edge coverage of the subject, and a consistent demonstration of how research methods tie into the criminal justice discipline. This text goes beyond the nuts and bolts, and teaches students how to create credible knowledge.

This is a text that both professors and students will appreciate: professors for its comprehensive and balanced coverage of the material; students for its portrayal of research methods as interesting, exciting, and most importantly, relevant.

Peter B. Kraska is Program of Distinction Research Fellow at Eastern Kentucky University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in research methods, criminal justice theory, and ethics. He is author of Theorizing Criminal Justice: Eight Essential Orientations, Militarizing The American Criminal Justice System: The Changing Role of the Police and Military, Drugs, Crime, and Justice, and numerous articles published in journals such as Social Problems, Justice Quarterly, and Policing and Society. His research on police militarization has been featured on 60 Minutes, the Jim Lehrer News Hour, and ABC’s World News Tonight, as well as in The Economist, The Washington Post, New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.