1st Edition

Mixed Methods in Criminology

By Vicky Heap, Jaime Waters Copyright 2019
314 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Mixed Methods in Criminology 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. The book is structured so that it charts the course of a criminological mixed methods study. Starting with an introduction to mixed methods and its implications for... Read more

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

Biography

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.