Lecture Slides on Moodle
Required reading:
- Bachman, R., & Schutt, R.K. (2017). The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice, 6th ed., London: Sage. (Read chapter 7, ‘Experimental designs’, pp. 176-206)
- Exum, M. L. (2002). The application and robustness of the rational choice perspective in the study of intoxicated and angry intentions to aggress. Criminology, 40(4), 933-966. (Read pp. 939-947)
- Fehr, E., & Gächter, S. (2002). Altruistic punishment in humans. Nature, 415(6868), 137-140.
- An Introduction to Factorial Survey Experiments – Part 1: Introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xfuqaCWJ6w
Further reading:
- Factorial survey experiments
- Wallander, L. (2009). 25 years of factorial surveys in sociology: A review. Social Science Research, 38(3), 505-520.
- Wikström, P.-O. H., Oberwittler, D., Treiber, K & Hardie, B. (2012). Breaking Rules: The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People’s Urban Crime. OUP Oxford. Available on iDiscover. (Read Chapter 8)
- Natural experiments
- Fisman, R., & Miguel, E. (2007). Corruption, norms, and legal enforcement: Evidence from diplomatic parking tickets. Journal of Political Economy, 115(6), 1020-1048.
- Immersive experiments
- Barnum, T. C., Herman, S., van Gelder, J. L., Ribeaud, D., Eisner, M., & Nagin, D. S. (2024). Reactive guardianship: Who intervenes? How? And why? Criminology 62(3), 587-618.
- Field experiments
- Pager, D. (2003). The mark of a criminal record. American Journal of Sociology, 108(5), 937-975.
- Conjoint experiments
- Schwarz, S., Baum, M. A., & Cohen, D. K. (2020). (Sex) crime and punishment in the# MeToo era: How the public views rape. Political Behavior 44, 75-104.
- Randomised controlled trials
- Sherman, L. W., & Berk, R. A. (1984). The specific deterrent effects of arrest for domestic assault. American Sociological Review 49(2), 261–272.
- Simulating experiments in observational data
- Loeffler, C. E., & Nagin, D. S. (2022). The impact of incarceration on recidivism. Annual Review of Criminology, 5(1), 133-152.