: a guidance book for lawyers, legislators and regulators
\ Frans L. Leeuw, Professor of Law, Public Policy and Social Science Research, Maastricht University, Faculty of Law and Director, Security and Justice Research Center (WODC), the Hague, the Netherlands ; with Hans Schmeets, Professor in Social Statistics, Maastricht University and Senior Researcher Statistics, Netherlands, the Netherlands.
Northampton MA, USA
: Edward Elgar Publishing
, [2016]
vii, 319 p.
:ill.
;25 cm
Index
Bibliography
Introducing empirical legal research and structure of the book -- Roots of empirical legal research : a concise history in 20 1/4 pages -- Research problems -- Theories and empirical legal research -- Research reviews and syntheses -- Research designs : raisons d'etre, examples and criteria -- Data collection methods -- Analyzing and visualizing quantitative and qualitative data -- Transferring research results to legal professionals, utilization and the fact-value dichotomy -- Empirical legal research : booming business and growth of knowledge?