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)
2003005184
SPSS (Computer file)
Criminal justice, Administration of--Data processing. Criminal justice, Administration of--Statistical methods. Information storage and retrieval systems--Criminal justice, Administration of.