This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In criminology, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Criminology, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study and practice of criminology. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.

Internet Research Annual offers a selection of the best work presented at the first three conferences of the Association of Internet Researchers, and provides a useful overview of the cutting-edge in Internet studies. Established scholars and new researchers address issues such as communities on/off line, the Internet as a methodological tool and space for research, and the places, politics, and policies of the Internet, creating a volume that comprehensively covers the field of Internet research. Also included are a brief history of the organization, a list of previously published papers from the conferences, and works by several of the keynote speakers including Phil Agre, Barbara Warnick, Bill Dutton, Sheizaf Rafaeli, Susan Herring, Robin Mansell, and much more.

Timely data availability is a long-standing challenge in policy-making and analysis for low-income developing countries. This paper explores the use of Google Trends’ data to narrow such information gaps and finds that online search frequencies about a country significantly correlate with macroeconomic variables (e.g., real GDP, inflation, capital flows), conditional on other covariates. The correlation with real GDP is stronger than that of nighttime lights, whereas the opposite is found for emerging market economies. The search frequencies also improve out-of-sample forecasting performance albeit slightly, demonstrating their potential to facilitate timely assessments of economic conditions in low-income developing countries.

Written in a comprehensive yet accessible style, this Handbook introduces readers to a range of modern empirical methods with applications in microeconomics, illustrating how to use two of the most popular software packages, Stata and R, in microeconometric applications.

The book is a collection of peer-reviewed best selected research papers presented at the International Conference on Data Analytics and Insights (ICDAI 2023), organized by Techno International, Kolkata, India, during May 11–13, 2023. The book covers important topics like sensor and network data analytics and insights; big data analytics and insights; biological and biomedical data analysis and insights; optimization techniques, time series analysis and forecasting; power and energy systems data analytics and insights; civil and environmental data analytics and insights; and industry and applications.

A detailed look at conducting online research, including how to write literature reviews, utilize annotated bibliographies, and use Boolean logic.

Online Research Essentials Designing and Implementing Research Studies Online Research Essentials Written by experts in the field, Online Research Essentials provides step-b-step guidance to the student or new practitioner in how to create, test, and deploy online survey research. The book includes everything needed for planning and developing a survey, putting it online, and formatting data for further analysis. Russell and Purcell provide support for using the popular Microsoft Expression Web and Adobe Dreamweaver web page authoring tools and for using the Access database that is used to collect and store survey results. Online Research Essentials is a comprehensive resource that discusses the practical aspects of survey development and applied research and offers information on a wide range of research-related topics that include: Scientific method and research design Ethical considerations on using the Internet for research Creating web pages Planning the research study Creating a simple survey on the Internet Developing an e-survey Creating more complicated Internet surveys Sampling procedures Developing experimental designs JavaScript and web programming and advanced JavaScript programming Repeated measures and matched group designs

Provides an in-depth look at the emerging field of online research and the corresponding ethical dilemmas. Issues covered include: autonomy; justice and benevolence; informed consent; privacy; ownership of data; research with minors; and respect for persons.

How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression. Big data can be used for good, from tracking disease to exposing human rights violations, and for bad, implementing surveillance and control. Data inevitably represents the ideologies of those who control its use; data analytics and algorithms too often exclude women, the poor, and ethnic groups. In Data Action, Sarah Williams provides a guide for working with data in more ethical and responsible ways. Williams outlines a method that emphasizes collaboration among data scientists, policy experts, data designers, and the public. The approach generates policy debates, influences civic decisions, and informs design to help ensure that the voices of people represented in the data are neither marginalized nor left unheard.