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About the Authors | |
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Preface for Instructors | |
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Preparing for Criminal Justice Research | |
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Theory, Measurement, and Research Development | |
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Research in Criminal Justice | |
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Theory in Criminal Justice: Routine Activity Theory | |
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Hypotheses in Criminal Justice Research | |
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Should Abortion Be Legal? | |
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Crime, Punishment, and Violence | |
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The Logic of Measurement | |
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Validity Problems | |
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Reliability Problems | |
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Multiple Indicators | |
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Level of Measurement | |
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Units of Analysis | |
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Summary | |
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Criminal Justice Data Sets | |
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Primary and Secondary Data Analysis | |
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Description of a Data Set: The General Social Survey | |
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Sampling: How Representative Are Your Data? | |
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Data Collection | |
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General Social Survey Variables | |
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Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study | |
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Other Criminal Justice Data Sets Available on the Web | |
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Downloading Data from the Internet | |
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Your Own Criminal Justice Survey | |
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Summary | |
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Using SPSS | |
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Using SPSS to Open Existing Data Sets | |
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Learning More: The Windows Tutorial | |
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Creating Your Own Data Set | |
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Coding Your Data | |
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Entering Your Data | |
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Using Published Criminal Justice Data | |
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Summary | |
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Univariate Analysis | |
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Describing a Variable | |
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A Graphic View | |
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Measuring Central Tendency and Dispersion | |
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Modifying Variables With Recode | |
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Practicing Recodes | |
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Saving Your Work | |
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Summary | |
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Working With Variables | |
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Political Views: Liberalism Versus Conservatism | |
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Political Policy Affiliation | |
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Gun Laws and Capital Punishment | |
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Understanding Binge Drinking | |
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Other Survey Items About Crime and Justice | |
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Crime and Justice Data for the American States | |
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Summary | |
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Creating Composite Measures | |
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Using Crosstabs | |
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Combining Two Items in an Index | |
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Checking to See How the Index Works | |
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Creating a More Complex Index With Count | |
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Creating the FBI Crime Index | |
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"Secondhand Binge Effects": Creating an Index | |
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Summary | |
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Bivariate Analysis | |
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Investigating the Correlates of Binge Drinking and Attitudes Toward Gun Control and Capital Punishment: Independent Versus Dependent Variables | |
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Moving Beyond Description: Comparing Two Variables | |
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Comparing Binge Drinking and Gender | |
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Examining Binge Drinking and Race | |
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Continuing the Analysis: Binge Drinking and Religiosity | |
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The Impact of the Minimum Purchase Law: Bingeing and Age | |
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Political Orientation, Guns, and Capital Punishment: Independent Versus Dependent Variables | |
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The Relationship Between POLVIEWS and PARTYID | |
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Age and Politics | |
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Religion and Politics | |
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Gender and Politics | |
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Race, Class, and Politics | |
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Education and Politics | |
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Martial Status and Politics | |
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Gun Laws and Capital Punishment | |
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Summary | |
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Measures of Association | |
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Lambda | |
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Gamma | |
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Pearson's r, the Correlation Coefficient | |
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Regression | |
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Summary | |
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The Existence, Strength, and Direction of an Association | |
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Chi-Square | |
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t-Tests | |
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Analysis of Variance | |
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Summary | |
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Multivariate Analysis | |
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Examining Several Independent Variables | |
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Age, Sex, and Religiosity | |
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Family Status and Religiosity | |
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Social Class and Religiosity | |
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Other Variables to Explore | |
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Multiple Linear Regression | |
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Summary | |
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Exploring What Shapes Attitudes About Guns and Capital Punishment | |
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Political Philosophy and Party Identification | |
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The Mystery of Politics and Marital Status | |
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Guns and Capital Punishment | |
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Summary | |
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Logistic Regression: Understanding College Student Drug and Alcohol Abuse | |
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Binge Drinking: A Dichotomous Dependent Variable | |
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The Odds Ratio: Gender and Binge Drinking | |
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Using SPSS for Windows Student Version for the Odds Ratio | |
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Logistic Regression in SPSS for Windows | |
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Multiple Logistic Regression | |
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Summary | |
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How to Read a Research Article | |
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College Alcohol Study Questionnaire (on the Student Study Site) | |
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Chapter Review Quizzes and Independent Projects (on the Student Study Site) | |
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Answers to Chapter Review Quizzes (on the Student Study Site) | |
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References and Suggested Readings | |
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Glossary/Index | |