Helping to bridge the gap between data gathering and data analysis, this book is based on a set of easy-to-follow steps woven throughout the text, enabling students to get stuck in and working with qualitative data fast.

A comprehensive guide to the research process, using criminological examples drawn mainly from the UK. Provides students with the skills and knowledge both to conduct their own research, and to evaluate the research of others, with frequent explicit discussions of the key points in each of these areas.

This interdisciplinary introduction to urban theory explains how the concepts that help us understand the contemporary urban experience have developed and been applied. It discusses a wide range of work - within political science, economics, g