1. The process of criminological research / Roy D. King and Emma Wincup -- 2. The politics of criminological research / Rod Morgan and Mike Hough -- 3. The relationship between theory and empirical observations in criminology / Anthony Bottoms -- 4. In search of causes and explanations of crime / Per-Olof Wikstrom -- 5. Doing evaluation research in criminology / Friedrich Losel -- 6. Doing criminological research in ethnically and culturally diverse contexts / Manuel Eisner and Alpa Parmar -- 7. International comparative research in criminology / Frances Heidensohn -- 8. Researching the state of crime / Put Mayhew -- 9. Researching 'street criminals' in the field : a neglected art'? / Mike Maguire -- 10. Mission impossible? : researching organized crime / Patricia Rawlinson -- 11. Researching victims / Sandra Walklate -- 12. Police research / Robert Reiner and Tim Newburn -- 13. Research on the criminal courts / John Baldwin -- 14. Research on community penalties / George Mair -- 15. Doing research in prisons / Roy D. King and Alison Liebling -- 16. Cybercrime and online methodologies / Matthew Williams -- 17. Ethnographic research and the licensing courts / Philip Hadfield -- 18. An embedded multimethod approach to prison research / Joel Harvey -- 19. Researching bullying in the classroom / Darrick Jolliffe.