Basics of Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology 3rd Edition by Michael Maxfield, William Pasewark, Earl Babbie,Scott Pasewark

Exercise 3

Measuring gang-related crime is an example of trying to measure a particular dimension of crime: motive. Other examples are hate crimes, terrorism, and drug-related crimes. Specify conceptual and operational definitions for at least one of these types. Find one newspaper story and one research report that present an example.