Laura Caulfield is Professor and Chair of the Institute for Community Research and Development at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.

Jane Hill was the Programme Director for the Criminology BA at Birmingham City University, UK, before her retirement in 2012.

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Visual tour (How to use this book)

Part I, Study skills for criminology students

1. Writing skills and essay writing

2. Referencing

3. Revision skills and examination techniques

4. Presentation skills

Part II, The importance of criminological research

5. The context of criminological research: power, knowledge, politics and values

6. The significance of criminological research: understanding the philosophical roots of our claims to know about crime in society

7. The ethics of criminological research

Part III, Getting going with criminological research

8. Planning: where do research ideas come from? How do we 'fine tune' them?

9. Critiquing the literature and the process of writing your formal review

10. Theories, methods and their relationships to theories of knowledge

11. Preparing for the practical challenges of 'real-world' crime research

Part IV, Doing criminological research: data collection

12. Qualitative approaches to research

13. Questionnaires and surveys

14. Using documentary and secondary data sources

15. Using online and social media data sources in criminological research

Part V, Doing criminological research: analysis and writing-up

16. Analysing the data: quantitative analysis

17. Analysing the data: qualitative analysis

18. Analysing the data: documents, texts and other data

19. Writing-up criminological research

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Index