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

Exercise 1

Each year, the BJS publishes the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, a compendium of data from many different sources. Consult the online edition of the Sourcebook (www.albany.edu/sourcebook) and select a table of interest to you. After consulting the appropriate source annotations, describe how the data presented in that table were originally collected.