Criminal Justice Research Section 02 Fall 2021 CO
Develop a research question with at least two major components. Include a hypothesis where you clearly detail your IDV and DV.
Design an experiment that will help you answer your RQ and test your hypothesis. Clearly discuss what your sampling procedure would look like and what the population and sample would be if you had the resources.
Design a survey with the following characteristics that can be used as your pretest and posttest for your experiment.
At least 5 closed-ended questions.
At least 3 open-ended questions with at least one of these questions being connected to one of your closed-ended questions.
Be sure that you have at least one question that would allow you to get NOIR measurements. For example, one closed-ended question could be “list the name of the state you are in,” which would be nominal.
Develop a battery of 8 questions that you would use to create a semi-structured interview protocol. Four of your questions should be in the Tree-branch format and the other four should be in the River-channel approach. Consider deeply what makes a good interview question, including double-barreled questions, what makes questions concise, along with other factors.
Respond to at least two people with advice on how they could:
Improve their survey
Improve their interview protocol
Your response to others should be thoughtful and complete. You should use key terms from 8, 9, and 10 in your responses as well. This will be graded based on your usage of course material to develop substantive responses. You will execute this later in the course and we will review coding and analysis afterward. So, the better you do here, the more straightforward the coding process will be.
Textbook: Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology8thEdition 2018Authors: Michael G. Maxfield, Earl R. BabbieISBN-10: 0357694775 | ISBN-13: 978035769477
