This unit examines issues concerning designing criminological research, including research ethics, methodology and data collection, theoretical approaches to research, reviewing existing literature, presenting research findings and the politics of criminological research. The unit explores research methods from a critical perspective, using a combination of evidence from Australia, the UK and the United States. On successful completion of this unit, students will have acquired the skills to conceptualise and operationalise a research topic, and design a research proposal to investigate a criminological issue. -- Course Website
Instructor: N Asquith
Prerequisites: Students cannot enrol without successfully completing two units in (ASL112, ASL113) and one unit in (ASL209, ASL309)