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Taylor & Francis Ltd Computational Aspects of Psychometric Methods
Book SynopsisThis book covers computational aspects of psychometric methods involved in developing measurement instruments and analyzing measurement data in social sciences. It covers main topics of psychometrics such as validity, reliability, item analysis, and item response theory models. Trade Review"This book is an excellent combination of introductory and recent advanced psychometric developments with implemented and illustrated examples using R. The book is clearly written and covers man different topics but is especially interesting as R code are given so the reader can learn how to perform the described analyses. Several datasets are given, and the examples are well explained to help readers to learn the methods. The methods in the book include, but are not limited to classical test theory, item response theory (IRT), item analysis, and differential item functioning. I highly recommend this book, both as course book when teaching psychometrics but also for researchers who wants to perform advanced analyses."- Marie Wiberg, Professor, Umeå University"This book is both a comprehensive introduction to psychometrics and a practical guide to implement the methods using R. It covers a wide range of topics, always providing real-case applications and the R code needed to analyse the data. Remarkable strengths of the book are the large variety of datasets used as examples and the fine balance between theory and applications. The book is suitable as a textbook for Psychometrics courses, and it can be of interest to researchers as well."- Michela Battauz, Associate Professor, University of Udine."I have been instructionally using the R package ShinyItemAnalysis, written by the lead author and her team, for several years and am pleased to see this book appear. It is written in a manner that is clear and inviting to the reader and the mathematics necessary to understand the text is mostly within the reach of someone who has taken introductory statistics, regression, and categorical data. Similarly, the necessary R is also kept fairly basic. In addition to item response theory (IRT), the text contains content on topics such as regression-based item analysis, item bias, classical test theory, and computerized adaptive testing. As such, it would be an excellent addition to an IRT course using R. An instructor using a different text but needing examples and exercises in R would also benefit, as would a motivated scholar undertaking self-study. In sum, I highly recommend this book."- Jay Verkuilen, Associate Professor, The City University of New York.“This book stands as an exceptional resource for researchers and students with a keen interest in the fields of Psychometrics and measurement, with a thorough, accessible and interactive approach to allow the reader to understand these complex concepts and the tools associated with them. The book tackles a challenging list of topics and provides guidance and explanation on how to grasp all the steps of the analysis using graphical and computational tools. The teaching of the methods is accomplished with the use of well prepared and documented R code and information on packages as well as the ShinyItemAnalysis application. The book is suitable to researchers and students at all levels including researchers new to the fields of measurement and computational psychometrics but also advanced users who are interested in implementing and learning more advanced tools. A well written book with an extensive material for learning and practice.”- Irini Moustaki, Professor in Social Statistics, London School of Economics."Impressively, Martinková and Hladká appeals to a broad audience of researchers, ranging from beginners to experts from a variety of disciplines. They introduce key concepts in psychometrics through both written descriptions and sample code, with interactive companion material in the application ShinyItemAnalysis and on github. Examples draw from a variety of data sets that cover entrance exams, learning assessments, the process of peer review, and peoples’ personalities, among others. I appreciate their helpful approach of starting with the basics—here, analyses such as t-tests, ANOVAs, and classical testing theory—and then move on to more complex ideas like Item Response Theory and Differential Item Functioning analysis. Martinková and Hladká explain the basics for historical reasons, as well as because they can be sufficient; when they cover more complex analyses, they also advise researchers about when those techniques might be necessary. Within each chapter, the authors discuss the underlying analytical problems and concepts, then dive into the mathematics of those concepts, and conclude with practical application of the concepts. In addition to the examples mentioned in the text, the authors include a final section with exercises for each chapter. I recommend Martinková and Hladká for anyone teaching or learning psychometrics."- Rebecca M. Price, Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington Bothell Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Validity 3. Internal structure of test and factor analysis 4. Reliability 5. Traditional item analysis 6. Item analysis with regression models 7. Item response theory models 8. More complex IRT models 9. Differential item functioning 10. Outlook on applications and more advanced psychometric topics Appendix A. Introduction to R Appendix B. Descriptive statistics Appendix C. Distributions of random variables Appendix D. Measurement data in ShinyItemAnalysis Appendix E. Exercises
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge International Handbook of Police
Book SynopsisEthnography has a long history in the humanities and social sciences and has provided the base line in the field of police studies for over 60 years. We have recently witnessed a resurgence in ethnographic practice among police scholars, and this Handbook is a response to that revival. Students and academics are returning to the ethnography arena and the study of police in situ to explain the evocative worlds of the police. The list of ethnographic sites is vast and all have fed the rejuvenation of ethnographic endeavour. Together they suggest innovation, theoretical depth, broad geographical boundaries, multi-site experiments, and multi-disciplinarity, all of which are central to the exploration of police and policing in the twenty-first century. This Handbook encapsulates the revival of police ethnography by exploring its multidisciplinary field and cataloguing the ongoing ethnographic work. It offers an original and international contribution to the field of police studiesTrade Review‘Ethnographers have long been motivated to explore the usually-secretive and often-violent world of policing. As this impressive volume demonstrates, there are rich insights to be gained from ethnographic encounters with the police, just as there are intractable dilemmas to be confronted. Showcasing the work of scholars from across the globe, The Routledge International Handbook of Police Ethnography will stand as a critical reference point for scholars hoping to artfully craft an effective and ethical relationship with the police in the everyday practice of their work.’Steve Herbert, Professor of Law, Societies, and Justice and Geography at the University of Washington, USA‘It was once said that criminology dwells alliteratively on cops, crimes and corrections, and cops, occupying a complex and contradictory world in which they exercise a virtual monopoly of legitimate violence, protect and control, signify and are signified, regulate diverse spaces, perform an assortment of tasks (including what has been called the ‘dirty work’ of society), and serve critically as mediators and gatekeepers, have long received a particularly close and fascinated ethnographic scrutiny. The outcome has been much fine writing. The Routledge International Handbook of Police Ethnography is a monumental work that draws on a succession of generations of scholars, from quite early pioneers to fresh young academics, to offer a near global overview of how that ethnography arose, what it entails, how and whence it is done and where it might yet progress. We should be more than grateful to its editors and authors for bringing such an important task to fruition.’Paul Rock, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK‘Policing practices usually bear little if any relationship to the shiny romantic images promulgated in media and political discourse. Once social scientists began to study policing from the early 1960s the key tool was ethnographic research, a set of deeply immersive methodologies for probing into the cultures and behaviours of these powerful and intriguing institutions. Varieties ethnographic techniques remain pivotal to shedding light on policing. At last, this central element of understanding police and policing has been done justice by this magnificent volume. The editors, distinguished researchers, and scholars in their own right, have assembled a wonderful array of contributors covering a comprehensive range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues. They range from all the generations of policing research and are drawn from every continent. They include pioneering superstars of the classic era of police ethnographies to outstanding researchers in early stages of their careers. The intellectual quality of the contributions is consistently first rate, a testimony to the editor's knowledge and command of this rapidly growing field. The book is a must have not only for social science researchers but for practitioners and policy makers concerned with policing. It provides an indispensable global guide to this vital field.’Robert Reiner, Emeritus Professor of Criminology in the Law Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK‘I started doing ethnographic research on police as a young doctoral student. There was no course available to guide me, and supervisory input was limited. We now have what I consider to be the definitive handbook on police ethnography. Its value lies not simply in reviewing past ethnographies which have fundamentally shaped policing scholarship, but in generating new thinking about contemporary dilemmas and opportunities. It provides insight and valuable guidance into what it means to do police ethnography in a time of a pandemic, and in a digital era. It also invites the readers to consider ethnographic encounters that represent a shift away from condemnation to co-created knowledge. It provides a platform for deliberating how policy and practice align (or not), how to navigate dilemmas about whistleblowing and researcher positionality, and how to make sense of the web of nodal actors. Critically, it also talks to the vexed question of presenting and disseminating policing ethnographies that include sensitive information. This handbook may well become a classic text for all ethnographic research, with police and policing as a lens.’Monique Marks, Head of the Urban Futures Centre, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South AfricaTable of ContentsSECTION ONE: MAPPING THE FIELD: HISTORIES, THEORIES AND CONTROVERSIES 1.The Revival of Police Ethnography: Taking the road less travelled Jenny Fleming and Sarah Charman 2.Police Ethnography: The Classic Era Tim Newburn 3.What is ethnography? Methods, sensibility and product Megan O’Neill, Merlijn van Hulst and Guido Noteboom 4.When is ethnography, ‘real ethnography’? Jenny Fleming and Rod Rhodes 5.Ethnography and the evidenced-informed police practitioner Nigel Fielding 6.Untold stories of police ethnography Anna Souhami 7.Philosophical Anthropology and the Premises of Research about the Police Simon Holdaway and Sarah Charman SECTION TWO: ACCESS AND ETHICS 8.Staying Cool in a Hot Spot: Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics in Police Ethnography Jeffrey T. Martin and Austin D. Hoffman 9..White writing black and blue: Who are our ethnographies for? Andrew Faull 10.A collaborator? Ethnographic issues of police and peer suspicion David Sausdal 11.Outsiders inside: An accidental ethnography of policing in Brazil Viviane de O Cubas, Renato Alves and Roxanna Pessoa Cavalcanti 12.Access to Police Organisations Peter K. Manning 13.Reflections on trust and acceptance in ethnographic studies of policing: the importance of police role conception Frederick Cram 14.Policed Ethnography: Ethical and Practical Considerations Arising from Observations of Public Order Policing in Crowd Situations Geoff Pearson and Charmian Werren 15.Deception, situated ethics and police ethnography David Calvey 16.ACCESS NO AREAS? Breaching the world of armed policing Oliver Clark-Darby 17.Access Denied: Navigating Access during Ethnographic Fieldwork on Police Reform in Kenya Tessa Diphoorn 18.Leaving The Notepad Behind: Discussing the methodological implications of obtaining ethnographic access to the Mexico City municipal police Emilio Garciadiego-Ruiz SECTION THREE: ETHNOGRAPHIC PRACTICE 19.Staging the Racial Optics of Police Vision: The Violent Rehearsal of Traffic Stops Christina Aushana 20.Why positive experiences matter: Appreciative Inquiry in ethnography for understanding and transforming policing Melissa Jardine and Auke J. van Dijk 21.Critical ethnography and the study of policing from ‘the other side' Will Jackson 22.Police ethnography, extraction, and abolition Beatrice Jauregui 23.Police ethnography in exceptional circumstances Matthew Bacon 24.Autoethnography: Analysing the world of policing from within Rafe McGregor 25.Lurking with Paedophile Hunters: Understanding Virtual Ethnography and its Benefits for Policing Research Andy Williams 26.Appreciative ethnography: ‘coming from a position of strength’ Corinne Funnell and Paul Atkinson 27.Reflections on the Parallel Practices of Police Ethnographers and Covert Police Bethan Loftus, Benjamin Goold and Shane Mac Giollabhui 28.Exploring emotionality in ethnographic encounters: Confessions from fieldwork on policing in Pakistan Zoha Waseem SECTION FOUR: WIDENING THE ETHNOGRAPHIC LENS 29.The city as a medium of future policing Maya Mynster Christensen and Peter Albrecht 30.Security and Policing Shadows: Pendular Ethnography in Urban Brazil Susana Durão, Paola Argentin 31.Going Nodal: Multi-sited Policing Ethnography Jarrett Blaustein, Tariro Mutongwizo and Clifford Shearing 32.Policing and categories of difference Jan Beek 33.Narratives as Plausibility Structures: it’s stories, all the way down Mike Rowe, Elizabeth Turner and Scarlett Redman 34.Police Ethnography and Human Agency Sam O’Brien-Olinger 35.Governmentality studies and police ethnography: Unpacking the complexities of contemporary policing practices Tobias Kammersgaard and Esben Houborg 36.Tying ethnography down: Linguistic approaches to investigating community policing Piotr Węgorowski 37.Blow Up: Ethnography as Exposure Didier Fassin 38.The Public Ethnography of Policing: A Never-Ending Story Paul Mutsaers 39.Can Police Ethnography Save the World? 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Book SynopsisThis book examines the meaning and implications of the sociological maxim, make the familiar strange'. Addressing the methodological questions of why and how sociologists should make the familiar strange, what it means to make the familiar strange', and how this approach benefits sociological research and theory, it draws on four central concepts: reification, familiarity, strangeness, and defamiliarization. Through a typology of the notoriously ambiguous concept of reification, the author argues that the primary barrier to sociological knowledge is our experience of the social world as fixed and unchangeable. Thus emerges the importance of constituting the familiar as the strange through a process of social defamiliarization as well as making this process more methodical by reflecting on heuristics and patterns of thinking that render society strange. The first concerted effort to examine an important feature of the sociological imagination, this volume will appeal to sociologists Trade Review"Ryan Gunderson’s fusion of critical theory and phenomenology and incisive exploration of reification and defamiliarization provide analytical tools to unmask the neoliberal ideology that ‘there is no alternative,’ come to terms with the grim social realities exposed by the covid-19 pandemic, and imagine a future that averts plutocracy and ecological catastrophe." - Robert J. Antonio, University of Kansas, USA"Through a systematic exploration of the topic of ‘defamiliarization’ in sociology, critical theory and phenomenology are once again brought together. The result is a powerful endorsement of active estrangement that fully brings home Brecht’s alienation-effect to social theory. By showing us how to think about the world in a different way, Ryan Gunderson opens the way to social change, at least in theory." - Frédéric Vandenberghe, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil"Gunderson’s intellectually stimulating study joins the ranks of many important theoretical approaches dedicated to visualizing problematic dimensions of social life that have been normalized via everyday life, and constitutes a most welcome effort to spell out efforts to systematize strategies to counteract mediating processes like alienation and reification, which are detrimental to human agency." - Harry F. Dahms, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USATable of Contents1. What is Sociology’s Epoché? 2. Modes of Reification 3. Familiarity and/as Strangeness 4. Modes of Social Defamiliarization 5. The Anti-Consolation of Sociology
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