A great read in that it breaks hard concepts down into understandable terms.

Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Methods truly engages students to learn an essential yet difficult subject. It features real-life examples, accessibility without sacrificing rigor, cutting-edge coverage of the subject, and a consistent demonstration of how research is relevant to both the criminal justice system and our discipline. This text goes beyond the nuts and bolts, and teaches students how to competently critique as well as create research-based knowledge.

The authors managed to create a comprehensive research methods book that is easily among the most rigorous in our field in terms of the traditional quantitative techniques, but at the same time, it provides three full chapters devoted to a wide range of qualitative methods. Qualitative methods are also integrated throughout the entire book along with a strong emphasis on the idea of mixed methods research.

Filled with women's studies examples and highlights, it also discusses in many different places throughout the text the array of feminist approaches to conducting research (feminist approach to interviewing for example).