Louise Westmarland is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Open University. She has written widely on police and policing, specifically on various aspects of police culture such as in her book Gender and Policing: Sex, Power and Police Culture (Willan 2001) – and on violence and police culture, ethics and integrity. Most recently she has co-authored Creating Citizen-Consumers: Changing Publics and Changing Public Services (Sage 2007).

• Introduction  1. Problematising Criminological Research  2. Qualitative versus Quantitative Methods  3. Quantitative Methods  4. Qualitative Methods  5. Soft and Semi-structured Research  6. Ethics, Emotions, Politics and Danger  7. Analysing Evidence of Crime and Justice

'Westmarland explores a broad range of methods of critical importance to both new and established criminological researchers. In examining how these have been applied in the context of real projects, the book brings to life the problems and potential challenges of doing criminological research. This is an engaging and thought-provoking text that will benefit all those conducting criminological enquiry, be they students, practitioners or seasoned researchers.' – Michael Rowe, Reader in Criminology, Northumbria University'In a stimulating way Researching Crime and Justice takes the study of research methods that extra mile. By including the research experiences of 'hands on' criminologists, Louise Westmarland brings the research experience alive for the student in a way that, hopefully, will reduce the shock of how different it is in practice compared to how it is often portrayed in the text books.' – David S. Wall, Durham University

Louise Westmarland is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Open University. She has written widely on police and policing, specifically on various aspects of police culture such as in her book Gender and Policing: Sex, Power and Police Culture (Willan 2001) – and on violence and police culture, ethics and integrity. Most recently she has co-authored Creating Citizen-Consumers: Changing Publics and Changing Public Services (Sage 2007).

• Introduction  1. Problematising Criminological Research  2. Qualitative versus Quantitative Methods  3. Quantitative Methods  4. Qualitative Methods  5. Soft and Semi-structured Research  6. Ethics, Emotions, Politics and Danger  7. Analysing Evidence of Crime and Justice

'Westmarland explores a broad range of methods of critical importance to both new and established criminological researchers. In examining how these have been applied in the context of real projects, the book brings to life the problems and potential challenges of doing criminological research. This is an engaging and thought-provoking text that will benefit all those conducting criminological enquiry, be they students, practitioners or seasoned researchers.' – Michael Rowe, Reader in Criminology, Northumbria University'In a stimulating way Researching Crime and Justice takes the study of research methods that extra mile. By including the research experiences of 'hands on' criminologists, Louise Westmarland brings the research experience alive for the student in a way that, hopefully, will reduce the shock of how different it is in practice compared to how it is often portrayed in the text books.' – David S. Wall, Durham University

Louise Westmarland is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Open University. She has written widely on police and policing, specifically on various aspects of police culture such as in her book Gender and Policing: Sex, Power and Police Culture (Willan 2001) – and on violence and police culture, ethics and integrity. Most recently she has co-authored Creating Citizen-Consumers: Changing Publics and Changing Public Services (Sage 2007).

• Introduction  1. Problematising Criminological Research  2. Qualitative versus Quantitative Methods  3. Quantitative Methods  4. Qualitative Methods  5. Soft and Semi-structured Research  6. Ethics, Emotions, Politics and Danger  7. Analysing Evidence of Crime and Justice

'Westmarland explores a broad range of methods of critical importance to both new and established criminological researchers. In examining how these have been applied in the context of real projects, the book brings to life the problems and potential challenges of doing criminological research. This is an engaging and thought-provoking text that will benefit all those conducting criminological enquiry, be they students, practitioners or seasoned researchers.' – Michael Rowe, Reader in Criminology, Northumbria University'In a stimulating way Researching Crime and Justice takes the study of research methods that extra mile. By including the research experiences of 'hands on' criminologists, Louise Westmarland brings the research experience alive for the student in a way that, hopefully, will reduce the shock of how different it is in practice compared to how it is often portrayed in the text books.' – David S. Wall, Durham University