New in softcover. Hardcover was published in 2010. Designed to be the authoritative volume on methodological and statistical issues in the criminology/criminal jusstice field. It contains 24 chapters on topics in the following key areas: (1) research design, (2) experimental methods, (3) methods for overcoming data limitations, (4) innovative descriptive methods, (5) estimation techniques for theory and policy, (6) topics in multiple regression, and (7) new directions in statistical analysis.