Envisioning Criminology Researchers on Research as a Process of Disc
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Envisioning Criminology Researchers on Research as a Process of Discovery
Envisioning Criminology
Michael D. Maltz • Stephen K. Rice Editors
Envisioning Criminology Researchers on Research as a Process of Discovery
Foreword by Alfred C. Blumstein
Editors Michael D. Maltz University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL, USA Ohio State University Columbus, OH, USA
Stephen K. Rice Department of Criminal Justice Seattle University Seattle, WA, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-15867-9 ISBN 978-3-319-15868-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-15868-6
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Foreword
For the past 10 years, I have been teaching a course identified as “Ph.D. Seminar I.” This course is required of all new Ph.D. students enrolled in the Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. We assume that all our entering students know how to get good grades, but not necessarily how to do research. Since a principal purpose of a Ph.D. program is the development of skills at carrying out research, the mission of that course is to develop in them the insights and skills needed to pursue a research career. We start the course with a presentation by individual faculty members of one of their research papers, not as they would present the finished paper at a professional meeting, but taking them backstage to the shaping and development of the paper. The faculty members are asked to report on how they identified the problem, how they went about addressing it, what models and analytic methods they chose to use, what data they used and how they gained access, what results they found, and how they reached their conclusions. Finally, they are asked to identi
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