Criminology 320: Quantitative Research Methods in Criminology

Crim 320 - Fall 2002

Quantitative Research Methods in Criminology

[Last updated 09 December 2002 ]

Final Exam

The final exam is on Tuesday, 10 December from 3:30-5:30 PM in SFU WMX3520.
The final exam will deal only with lectures and course readings from the mid-term onwards.
- For lecture PowerPoint notes, see "Lecture-related resources" below.
- For course readings, see these Study Questions.
The general format and length of the final exam will be similar to the mid-term.

Lecture-related Resources

03 September	Course Syllabus
10 September	Understanding Quantitative Research
17 September	Research Ethics
24 September	Principles and Promise of Experimentation
01 October	Quasi-Experiments
08 October	Mid-term
15 October	Final Reflections Regarding Experiments
22 October	Surveys and Sampling
29 October	Surveys: Asking Meaningful Questions
05 November	For information regarding Chris Atchison's guest lecture on Internet Surveys and Interviews, see his article in the course reader. Also see his web page.
12 November	Quantitative Content Analysis
19 November	See Bryan Kinney's notes regarding Unobtrusive and Archival Measures and his more specific analysis of Police Calls for Service. See also his web page.
26 November	Final Reflections Regarding Crim 320 and Quantitative Research Methods in Criminology

Tutorial/Computer Lab/Project Material

Guidelines for writing your research report
The schedule of computer labs for each tutorial group
Two versions of a survey we'll be referring to in SPSS tutorial sessions 2 through 4
SPSS data file: Right click this link and then name the file at "save target as..." to download the file. [You must use Internet Explorer or a version of Netscape other than Netscape 4.78 for this to work properly.] Copy the file to a disk and bring the disk to SPSS sessions 2 through 4.
Here are copies of notes in PDF (Adobe) Format of the SPSS Procedures discussed at the various lessons:
- SPSS Lesson 1: Variable Definition
- SPSS Lesson 2: Variable Transformations
- SPSS Lesson 3: A Few Basic Statistics
- SPSS Lesson 4: Creating Data Summaries
- [Click here to download a free copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Other Course-Related Resources

Communication

Send an e-mail to your professor or the entire class. [The "entire class" e-mail will work only if you are registered in the course and are currently logged into your SFU account.]
Send an email to the TA, Rob Tillyer.
Connect to the Computing Services Centre to use SFU Webmail and/or Manage your SFU e-mail (e.g., to forward your SFU e-mail to another address)

Stay tuned for further links as the course progresses.