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Undergraduate students often struggle in research methods as they find the material both challenging as well as inapplicable to their future careers as practitioners. Thus, the task often falls on instructors to make the material both understandable and relatable. One challenge that professors who teach research methods often face is finding a textbook that helps assist them in this task. Instructors often note that current research methods books in criminal justice are either written in manner that is too advanced for an undergraduate student population, that the information is too technical to keep the students' attention, or that the texts lack examples which show the relevance and applicability of having an understanding of research methods. The Process of Research in Criminal Justice and Criminology is written with the undergraduate student and novice researcher in mind, writing in a conversational tone, including illustrations of concepts using everyday examples, and by providing research examples that are relevant to students' lives. The introduction of criminal justice-specific information and examples to this adaptation of Dixon et al.'s The Process of Social Research, 2e, along with detailed application exercises, will make this adapted text competitive in the research methods in criminal justice text market.