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The Sociology of Immigration
Crossing Borders, Creating New Lives
2023 || Paperback || Daniel Herda || SAGE
The Sociology of Immigration provides students with a contemporary sociological perspective on the entire immigration process: deciding to leave one's home country, establishing oneself in a new host society, being received by the host population, and deciding whether to assimilate or seek citizenship.
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Forensic Psychology
An Inside Perspective on Criminal Thinking and Behavior
2023 || Paperback || Kenneth B. Cairns || SAGE
Forensic Psychology: An Inside Perspective on Criminal Thinking and Behavior offers a concise, accessible introduction to the field of forensic psychology. Grounded in the cognitive-behavioral approach and evidence based-practices and research, this text focuses on often-overlooked areas, such as the experiences of victims and first responders and the psychopathy of individuals convicted of mass murder, spree killing, and serial killing.
Research Design / 2nd Edition
Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Based, and Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches
2023 || Paperback || Patricia Leavy || Guilford Publications
With a new chapter on the literature review, this accessible step-by-step guide to using the five major approaches to research design is now in a thoroughly revised second edition. The prior edition's user-friendly features are augmented by a new companion website with worksheets keyed to each chapter. For each approach, the text presents a template for a research proposal and explains how to conceptualize and fill in every section.
Interdisciplinary research examples draw on current events a...
Cybercrime and Society
2023 || Paperback || Majid Yar e.a. || SAGE
Cybercrime and Society is a student focused and pedagogically developed introduction to the area of cybercrime, which over the past few decades has seen an explosion of growth due to new global forms of electronic communication. Â
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Introduction to Policing
2023 || Hardcover || Michael Rowe e.a. || SAGE
Delving into the real issues of policing, and fully updated to cover recent changes in the field, this is the introduction to your Police Studies course.
Global Development
The Basics
2023 || Paperback || Daniel Hammett || Taylor & Francis
Global Development: The Basics is a lively and engaging introduction to the shifting landscape of global development, right from its origins, to today, and on to what the future might look like. Delving into economics, politics, gender and climate change, this book is for readers starting out in their understanding of global development.
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Exploring Rating Scale Functioning for Survey Research
2023 || Paperback || Stefanie A. Wind || SAGE
This book provides researchers with an overview of rating scale analysis along with practical guidance on how to conduct such analyses with their own survey data. Author Stefanie A. Wind presents three categories of methods: Rasch models; non-Rasch Item Response Theory (IRT) models; and non-parametric models, together with practical examples.
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The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice
2023 || Paperback || Ronet D. Bachman e.a. || SAGE
The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice continues to demonstrate the vital role research plays in criminal justice by integrating real-world case studies with research methods. By pairing research techniques with practical examples, Bachman and Schutt equip students to evaluate and conduct research. This Eighth Edition includes coverage of new methods and contemporary examples, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, mass participation in social movements, increasing hate crimes, ...
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What If?2
Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
2023 || Paperback || Randall Munroe || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, and the Sunday Times bestseller What If?, even more hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
The Short Guide to Community Development / 3rd edition
2023 || Paperback || Alison Gilchrist e.a. || Bristol University Press
The only up-to-date, accessibly written short guide to community development, this third edition offers an invaluable and authoritative introduction. Fully updated to reflect changes in policy, practice, economics and culture, it will equip readers with an understanding of the history and theory of community development, as well as practical guidance on how to do it. This is a key text for all students and practitioners working with communities.
It includes:* a broad overview of core themes, ...