This newly developed textbook, crafted in line with the advent of newly developed curriculum, features the basics of criminological research and statistics. This includes the value and importance of research, the foundation of criminological research, and a guide to writing a research paper when it comes to developing a problem and collecting and gathering primary data, secondary sources, journal articles, and other sources. It also includes writing a thesis introduction, framework, statement of the problem, significance and limitation, related literature, research design, instrument or data gathering tools, sampling and population, instrument, and data collection, and the statistical tools needed. In addition, the importance of statistics, percentage, mean, median, mode, and standard deviation, and other tests are partly introduced. Similarly, the authors covered topics like proposed research title presentation and defense, and lastly, the basic concepts of research ethics and plagiarism. Criminological Research and Statistics I: A Textbook for Criminology Students
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DR. GERRY J. CAÑO
He is a criminologist by profession, with strong linkages among criminologists in the Philippines and abroad. He is a member of the American Society of Criminology and the Asian Criminological Society, and is the convenor of the 11th Asian Criminology Society Conference. He is also a member of the International Society of Criminology, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Technical Panel for Criminal Justice Education, and the Professional Regulation Commission’s Continuing Professional Development Council of Criminology. Dr. Caño is the Dean of the College of Criminology, PHINMA Cagayan de Oro College (COC).
DR. RICHARD T. CAMARA
He is a registered criminologist (License Number 0008025). He is a full-blooded criminology academician and he has worked in the academe for more than 20 years. In 2013, he graduated with a degree in Doctor of Philosophy in Criminal Justice, Specialization in Criminology from the University of Mindanao, Davao City. He took up his Master of Science in Criminology, major in Police Science at the PHINMA Cagayan de Oro College in 2003 and his Bachelor of Science in Criminology at the University of Mindanao in 1998.
DR. LAURENCE P. BAZAN
He is currently the Dean of the College of Criminal Justice Education, North Eastern Mindanao State University, Cantilan Campus, Cantilan, Surigao Del Sur. He completed his PhD degree in 2014 at the Philippine College of Criminology, Sta. Cruz, Metro Manila. He took up his MS in Criminology at Cagayan de Oro College, Cagayan, in 2007, his MBA in 1998, and his BS in Criminology in 1996.
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