Criminological Skills and Research for Beginners, Third Edition, is a comprehensive and engaging guide to research methods in Criminology, and the skills required for academic success. Written primarily for undergraduate students and novice researchers, this book has been designed as a lively and accessible guide to planning, conducting and reporting research in the subject. It emphasises practical skills required in studying Criminology, the importance of criminological research, and places related methodology firmly in the context of students- broader study of the discipline, before moving on to provide a detailed guide to the actual processes of research that students can return to at each stage of their research, all the way through to their dissertation.
This book presents:
- an examination of the theoretical, political and ethical debates in criminological research;
- a complete guide to planning criminological research, assisting student researchers i
