Appendix C

Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice Suggested Reading List for Ph.D Research Methods/Statistics Qualifying Exam

The following is a general guide, not a list of items that will form the basis for specific questions. Students should read widely in the theory and practice of methods and statistics in criminal justice and criminology.

• Abelson, Robert.  1995.  Statistics as Principled Argument Hillsdale: Lawrence Earlbaum.
• Abbott, Andrew 1988. "Transcending General Linear Reality." Sociological Theory 6: 169-86.
• Allison, Paul.  2001.  Missing Data Analysis.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Baron, R. M. & Kenny, D.A. 1986. The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,51:1173-1182.
• Berk, Richard 1983.  "An Introduction to Sample Selection Bias in Sociological Data" American Sociological Review 48: 386-398
• Berry, William D.  1993.  Understanding Regression Assumptions.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Blalock, Hubert M. 1985. Causal Models in the Social Sciences Hawthorne, NY: Aldine.
• Borhnstedt, G.W. 1969. "Observations on the measurement of change" Sociological Methodology (Borgotta, E. F., ed.), pp. 113-133. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Colllins, Randall.  1988. "The Micro Foundations of Macro Sociology" Sociological Theory 6: 242-253
• Campbell, Donald, and Julian Stanley. 1963. Experimental and Quasi Experimental Designs for Research. Chicago: Rand McNally.
• Cook, Thomas D., and Donald Campbell.1979. Quasi-Experimentation: Design and Analysis Issues.  Chicago: Rand McNally.
• Cohen, Jacob 1994. "The World is Round (p<.05)" American Psychologist 49: 997-1003 and commentaries.
• Denzin, Norman, and Yvonna Lincoln (eds.) 1994. Handbook of Qualitative Research Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications.
• James Alan Fox, ed., 1981.  Methods in Quantitative Criminology. New York: Academic Press.
• Fox, John. 1991.  Regression Diagnostics. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Freedman, David , 1991. "Statistical Models and Shoe Leather" Sociological Methodology.  21: 291-319 and commentaries that follow.
• Greenberg, David F., 1979. Mathematical Criminology. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
• Gottfredson, Michael R., and Travis Hirschi. 1987. "The Methodological Adequacy of Longitudinal Research in Crime and Delinquency." Criminology 25:581-614.
• Griffin, Larry, and Charles C. Ragin.  1994. "Some Observations on Formal Methods of Qualitative Analysis" Sociological Methods & Research 23: 4-22
• Heckman, James 1995. "Assessing the case for social experiments." Journal of Economic Perspectives  9: 85-110. Kuhn, Thomas 1962. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Lewis-Beck, Michael S.  1980.  Applied Regression: An Introduction.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.Lewis-Beck, Michael S., Alan E. Bryman, and Tim Futing-Liao, eds., 2004, The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Liao, Tim Futing.  1994.  Interpreting Probability Models.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Lieberson, Stanley 1992.  "Einstein Renoir and Greeley: Evidence in Sociology" American Sociological Review 57:1-18.
• Lieberson, Stanley 1991. "Small Ns and Big Conclusions" Social Forces 70:307-320
• Liska, Allen E.  1990. "The Significance of Aggregate Dependent Variables and Contextual Independent Variables for Linking Macro and Micro Theories." Social Psychology Quarterly, 53: 292-301
• Luke, Douglas A.  2004.  Multilevel Modeling.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Maltz, Michael. 1994. "Deviating from the Mean: The Declining Significance of Significance" Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 31, 4, November, 1994, 434-463.
• Maltz, Michael, and Jacqueline Klosak.  2000.  "Visualizing Lives: New Pathways for Analyzing Life Course Trajectories," Journal of Quantitative Criminology 16: 255-281.
• Maxfield, Michael, and Earl Babbie  2005 (4^th Edition). Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
• Meehl, P.E. 1978. "Theoretical Risks and Tabular Asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald and the Slow Progress of Soft Psychology." Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 46: 806-834.
• Menard, J. Scott.  2001.  Applied Logistic Regression Analysis.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Mills, C. Wright. 1959. The Sociological Imagination. London: Oxford University Press.
• Oakes, J. Michael. 2002. "Risks and Wrongs in Social Science Research: An Evaluator"s Guide to the IRB," Evaluation Review 26: 443-480.
• Pepper, John V., and Carol V. Petrie, eds., 2003. Measurement Problems in Criminal Justice Research. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.
• Popper, Karl  1959. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. New York: Basic Books.
• Scarce, Rik. 1995. Scholarly ethics and courtroom antics: Where researchers stand in the eyes of the law. American Sociologist, 26: 87-113.Shadish, William R., Cook, Thomas D., and Campbell, Donald T. 2002. Experimental and quasi-experimental Designs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin company.
• Sherman, Lawrence and Ellen G. Cohn 1989 "The Impact of Research on Legal Policy: The Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment."  Law and Society Review, 23: 117-144.
• Simpson, Antony  1993. Information Finding and the Research Process: A Guide to Sources and Methods for Public Administration and the Policy Sciences. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
• Stolzenberg, Ross M.  1980. "The Measurement and Decomposition of Causal Effects in Nonlinear and Non-Additive Models."  Sociological Methodology 11, 459-488.
• Studenmund, A.H.  2006.  Using Econometrics: A Practical Guide.  5^th Edition.  Boston: Addison, Wesley, and Longman.
• Weisburd, David  1993. "Design Sensitivity in Criminal Justice Experiments" Crime and Justice 17: 337-380.
• Whitley, B. E.  2001.  Principles of research in behavioral science (2^nd ed.).  Boston:  McGraw Hill
• Winship, Christopher and Stephen Morgan  1999. "The Estimation of Causal Effects from Observational Data." Annual Review of Sociology 25:659-706.