Seminar 11: Critiquing Quantitative Research – Criminological Research Methods

Reading:

Bueno de Mesquita, E. and Fowler, A. (2021) Thinking Clearly with Data: A Guide to Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- Read pp. 94—156: (1) Chapter 15: Turn Statistics into Substance and (2) Chapter 16: Measure Your Mission, and (3) Chapter 17: On the Limits of Quantification.
Farrington, D.P. (2003) ‘Methodological quality standards for evaluation research’, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 587(1): 49-68. (A very influential set of criteria for what constitutes good evaluation in relation to quantitative research.)
Pratt, T. C. (2016) ‘Theory testing in criminology’, in A. Piquero (ed.) The Handbook of Criminological Theory, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., pp. 37–49.
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