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This is the first book to bring together the discipline of criminology with the mixed methods research strategy, which has become increasingly prominent within criminological teaching and research. Providing straightforward, easy to follow guidance, this book is the essential student companion for any criminological mixed methods research project.
List of contents
Foreword Professor Shadd Maruna
Acknowledements
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1. Introduction to Mixed Methods
Chapter 2. Creating a Mixed Methods Question and Project Planning
Chapter 3. Ethics
Chapter 4. Philosophy
Chapter 5. Mixed Methods Design
Chapter 6. Combining the Data
Chapter 7. Research Design and Sampling
Chapter 8. Data Collection Methods
Chapter 9. Data Analysis
Chapter 10. Critique
Chapter 11. Troubleshooting
Chapter 12. Writing-Up
Chapter 13. Case Studies
Glossary of Key Terms
References
About the author
Vicky Heap is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Fellow of the Sheffield Institute for Policy Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. She conducts research and lectures in the areas of anti-social behaviour, crime prevention and research methods. Her current research examines victims’ experiences of anti-social behaviour and the implementation of the Community Trigger and Community Remedy policies from the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act (2014).
Jaime Waters is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Fellow of the Sheffield Institute for Policy Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. She has been teaching criminological research methods since 2004 and publishes on methodological issues. Her main research interests include illegal drug use, gambling, and emotional labour, and she published her first research monograph, Illegal Drug Use Through the Lifecourse (with David Moxon, Routledge) in 2017.
Summary
This is the first book to bring together the discipline of criminology with the mixed methods research strategy, which has become increasingly prominent within criminological teaching and research. Providing straightforward, easy to follow guidance, this book is the essential student companion for any criminological mixed methods research project.
