Module Identifier | CR10220 | |||||||||||
Module Title | CRIMINOLOGY RESEARCH SKILLS | |||||||||||
Academic Year | 2007/2008 | |||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Professor Alan H Clarke | |||||||||||
Semester | Semester 2 | |||||||||||
Other staff | Professor Alan H Clarke, Dr Gareth Norris, Miss Katherine S Williams | |||||||||||
Course delivery | Lecture | 30 Hours. 1 x 2 hour and 2 x 1 hour lectures per week | ||||||||||
Seminars / Tutorials | 6 hours - 3 x 2 hour seminars | |||||||||||
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Professional Exemptions | Not required for professional exemption |
PRIVATE STUDY
Students are expected to invest time in reading around the subject. As a rough guide, over the semester, we expect you to:
Attend lectures for 30 hours
Attend seminars for 6 hours
Prepare for seminars for 40 hours (about 13
hours per seminar)
Prepare for the coursework assignment for 40 hours (this should
be spread over a number of weeks)
Revise for the examination for 40 hours
Conduct additional private study for 44 (about 4.5 hours per
week)
Why undertake research? Who conducts criminological research? How does the knowledge produced from such research activity differ from the knowledge obtained from other sources? What is the relationship between criminological research and crime policy?
Theory and research
The role of theory in the research process: theory construction and theory testing. Topics covered include:
Methods and methodologies
Quantitative Approaches
Research methodology and design
Sampling
Surveying crime
Making sense of quantitative data
An introduction to descriptive statistics
Examining the relationship between variables
Hypothesis testing using inferential statistics
Qualitative Approaches
Theory and concepts
Data at the core.
Problems ? subjectivity, replication, generalization.
Criminal justice agency case-studies
Criminal justice policy-analysis papers
Participant observation
Interviews and surveys in qualitative research
Documentary analysis
Content analysis
Comparative research skills in criminology
Interdisciplinary research in criminology
This module is at CQFW Level 4