LAW5022M
LAW5022M Reading List
Dr Jose Pina-Sanchez
J.PinaSanchez@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
Session 1: An introduction to research methods
Bryman, A. 2016. Social Research Methods. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. chapters 1 (The nature and process of social research) and 4 (Planning a research project and formulating research questions).
Session 2: Surveys & Questionnaires
Bachman and Schutt (2017) Fundamentals of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice (2017, 4th Edition) chapters 7 (Conceptualization and measurement) and 8 (Survey research).
Bryman, A. 2016. Social Research Methods. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. chapters 9 (Structured interviewing), 10 (Self-completion questionnaires) and 11 (Asking questions)
Matthews and Ross, 2010. Research methods : a practical guide for the social sciences Pearson Education. chapter 3 (Questionnaires).
Session 3: Longitudinal & Experimental designs
Bachman and Schutt (2017) Fundamentals of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice (2017, 4th Edition) chapter 6 (Causation and experimentation) OCR REQUESTED BY LIBRARY (HT 15/01/2021)
Deschenes (1990) chapter (Longitudinal research designs), from Kempf book Measurement Issues in Criminology.
Session 4: Qualitative interviews & Focus groups
Bryman, A. 2016. Social Research Methods. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp.374-406 (Chapter 17: The nature of qualitative research).
Session 5: Ethnography & Participant observation
Noaks, L. and Wincup, E. 2004. Criminological Research: Understanding Qualitative Methods. London: Sage. pp.90-105 (Chapter 6: Ethnographic approaches to researching crime and deviance).
Session 6: Document & Content analysis
Matthews and Ross, 2010. Research methods : a practical guide for the social sciences Pearson Education. chapter C8 (Documents).
Session 7: Sampling
Bryman, A. 2016. Social Research Methods. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. chapter 8 (Sampling)
Bachman and Schutt (2017) Fundamentals of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice (2017, 4th Edition) chapter 5 (Sampling)
Session 8: Ethics
Bryman, A. 2016. Social Research Methods. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. chapter 6 (Ethics and politics in social research).
May, T. (2011) Social Research: Issues, Methods and Process. Chapter 3.
Session 9: Accessing secondary data
Bryman, A. 2016. Social Research Methods. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. chapter 14 (Secondary analysis and official statistics).
Bryman, A. 2016. Social Research Methods. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. chapter 16 (Using IBM SPSS for Windows).
Session 10: Discussion of your research projects
No reading listed.
Session 11: Writing a research proposal (Dan Birks)
No reading listed.
Session 12: Quantitative data analysis (descriptive stats)
Bryman, A. 2016. Social Research Methods. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. chapter 16 (Using IBM SPSS for Windows).
Session 13: Quantitative data analysis (inferential stats) (Jose Pina-Sánchez)
Bryman, A. 2016. Social Research Methods. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. chapter 15 (Quantitative data analysis).
Session 14: Qualitative data analysis
Matthews and Ross, 2010. Research methods : a practical guide for the social sciences Pearson Education. chapter D4 (Thematic analysis).
This list was last updated on 29/08/2021