This accessible, hands-on text has now been revised and updated, with expanded coverage of topics including how theory may emerge from exploratory data analysis. The book prepares graduate students, new researchers, and even seasoned investigators to develop their own theories and build on existing ones.

This practical urban studies research guide for students, revised and with new chapter additions, focuses on the city and on the different ways to research it.

This book gives a broad, easy-to-read overview of the cultural, social and political ideas that have shaped our education system and how we think about the concept of Education. This new edition has been updated with new chapters, a new case study feature and coverage of hot topics trending today.

Met de overhandiging van dit boek aan Peter van Koppen ter ere van zijn emeritaat komt er een officieel einde aan zijn academische carrière. Zijn brede interesse in het strafrecht, de rechtspsychologie en het waarderen van bewijs worden onderstreept door de 48 bijdragen. Deze zijn geschreven door voormalige collega’s, oud-promovendi en vrienden uit binnen- en buitenland. De onderwerpen behandelen zowel de meer strafrechtelijke als de (toegepaste) rechtspsychologische thema’s. Samen schet...

Eind 2019 publiceerde het SCP de eindevaluatie van de Participatiewet. Het rapport geeft een weinig verheffend beeld van de resultaten van gemeenten om mensen met een kwetsbare positie op de arbeidsmarkt aan werk te helpen. In dit boek wordt met andere ogen naar vijf jaar Participatiewet gekeken. Dit nuanceert de negatieve teneur van het SCP-rapport. Onderzoekers van verschillende instituten laten zien welke praktijken er achter de harde cijfers schuilen. Met de invoering van de Participatiew...

A practical, step-by-step core research text that balances coverage of qualitative, quantitative and combined methods

Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research offers a truly balanced, inclusive, and integrated overview of the processes involved in educational research. This text first examines the general steps in the research process and then details the procedures for conducting specific types of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed me...

Comprehensive, critical and accessible, Criminology: A Sociological Introduction offers an authoritative overview of the study of criminology, from early theoretical perspectives to pressing contemporary issues such as the globalisation of crime, crimes against the environment, terrorism and cybercrime. Authored by an internationally renowned and experienced group of authors in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, this is a truly international criminology text that delves i...

This guide aims to help both supervisors and supervisees use supervision to maximise learning, and to support best practice.

Introduces readers to the most important thinkers and schools of thought in contemporary sociological theory - from Parsons and Merton to the Frankfurt School to Foucault, Bourdieu, Giddens and Hochschild - locating each thinker within their own social, political and historical context and helping readers use these ideas to understand the contemporary world.