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CJUS 380  -  Research and Data Analysis in Criminal Justice

This course covers the basic techniques and procedures utilized in the process of both criminal justice policy and evaluation research. Topics include: defining research problems, ethics in criminal justice research, quantitative and qualitative approaches to research, selecting and measuring variables, stating hypotheses, sampling, developing research designs, and analyzing data. Prerequisite: SOC 281  or CJUS 351 3 credits




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