Quantitative Research in Criminal Justice Management

Quantitative Research in Criminal Justice Management

Introduction

Quantitative methods for research are found to be a good source of collecting information according to the inception of the discipline for the criminal justice management. The quantitative methods have provided the primary research methods for studying the different ways of distributing and causing crimes. There are a number of different ways for collecting and obtaining data that are useful to a number of aspects related to the society. The use of quantitative methods including field research, survey research, and evaluation research along with a number of other research methods that play a vital role in assisting the criminologists for the collecting and gathering valid and reliable data in the field of criminology (Maxfield, 2011). The data that is collected by the quantitative research in making causal statements about the variables being researched. The core focus of this paper is to identify and discuss the different research methods that could warrant the quantitative research methods in the field of criminal justice management.

Discussion

The quantitative research method is a very important research method that could be used in collecting important data for research in the field of criminal justice management. It has been observed that the quantitative methods for research in criminal justice could also pose a number of difficulties in the research process. In addition to this, the data collected from the quantitative research methods could also be unreliable in some instances. Reliability and accuracy of the collected data are the most significant issues found in using the quantitative methods of research in criminal justice management. It is very important to identify the correct methods of research that would warrant the data collected by the quantitative research. There are a number of research methods that could be implemented in the research regarding criminal justice management (Ellis, 2010). The following are a number of most significant and reliable data collection research methods that could be implemented for warranting the research conducted through quantitative research.

Participant Observation

The research methods of participant observation requires the researcher to go under cover for the purpose of observing the members of a group involved in any criminal case. It has been observed that there are four levels involved in the method of participant observation. The researchers that are involved in the complete participation may also participate in the group criminal activity for making an attempt for ...