Fundamentals of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Fourth Edition
Web Activities
- There are many interesting websites that discuss philosophy of science issues. Read the summaries of positivism and interpretivism at www.ruthssociology.com/research-methods (under the "Background" heading). What do these summaries add to your understanding of these philosophical alternatives?
- The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) offers an extensive online training course in the basics of human subjects protections issues. Go to the public access CITI site at https://www.citiprogram.org/rcrpage.asp?affiliation=100 and complete the course in social and behavioral research. Write a short summary of what you have learned.
- Philip Zimbardo provides extensive documentation about the Stanford Prison Experiment at www.prisonexperiment.org. Read several documents that you find on this Web site and write a short report about them.
- Read the entire ACJS Code of Ethics at http://www.acjs.org/pubs/167_671_2922.cfm. Discuss the meaning of each research standard.