Adventures in criminal justice research : data analysis for Windows using SPSS versions 11.0, 11.5, or higher / George W. Dowdall ... [et al.]. - 3rd edition - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2004. - xiv, 297 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

PART I PREPARING FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESEARCH
Chapter 1 Criminal Justice Research

Chapter 2 Criminal Justice Data Sets

Chapter 3 Using SPSS

PART II UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS
Chapter 4 Describing a Variable

Chapter 5 Working with Variables

Chapter 6 Creating Composite Measures

PART III BIVARIATE ANALYSIS
Chapter 7 Investigating the Correlates of Drug and Alcohol Use, Political Orientation, Guns, and Capital Punishment: Independent
Versus Dependent Variables

Chapter 8 Measures of Association

Chapter 9 The Existence, Strength, and Direction of an Association

PART IV MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
Chapter 10 Examining Several Independent Variables

Chapter 11 Exploring What Shapes Attitudes About Guns and Capital Punishment

Chapter 12 Logistic Regression: Understanding College Student Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-291) and index.

0761988084 (pbk)

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SPSS (Computer file)


Criminal justice, Administration of--Data processing.
Criminal justice, Administration of--Statistical methods.
Information storage and retrieval systems--Criminal justice, Administration of.

HV7412.4 / .A38 2004

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