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crim-research-design

Use when defending the research design of a Criminology (ASC / Wiley) manuscript — causal identification for quantitative work, longitudinal and life-course designs, criminal-career and trajectory methods, place-based and experimental designs, or case selection and process tracing for qualitative work. Criminology judges each tradition on its own terms. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.

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# Research Design (crim-research-design)

*Criminology* accepts many methodologies but is demanding about each. The design must credibly connect
the mechanism (`crim-theory-building`) to crime evidence. This skill is mode-aware: pick the section
that matches your work and defend it against the strongest rival explanation.

## When to trigger

- Specifying identification, a longitudinal design, case selection, or an experiment
- A reviewer questioned causal claims, selection, the dark figure, or a confound
- Choosing between a trajectory model, fixed-effects panel, or survival design
- Justifying why your design adjudicates the rival theory from `crim-literature-positioning`

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