Complete a research proposal: Link to video that explains this whole paper/proposal in depth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N87SGIbvULs&t=22s.Your proposal will be divided into two separate sections with each section receiving its own grade (total assignment worth 20%). 1:Section1-Statement of Research/Thesis Statement: This section should be 1-2 pages in which you state and justify your research question. It should begin with an interesting, broad (perhaps based on statistics/data) discussion about the problem to get the reader excited about the topic and highlight why the topic is important. It should conclude with a specific, concise thesis statement that includes the question you seek to answer through your research. Examples of thesis statements include “This research will examine whether or not drug-using adolescents have lower levels of self-control than those who do not use drugs” or “The purpose of this study is to examine the characteristics of relationships between individuals serving long-term prison sentences and their non-incarcerated intimate partners.” Your research question will serve as a guide for the rest of your research project and should include both an independent and dependent variable. As you work on this assignment, you should give some thought to how you will measure your variables, how you will find your subjects, and how you would analyze your data. You must provide at least two references.Section 2-Theoretical Framework/Lit Review: This should be between 3 and 4 pages. For this assignment, you will need to discuss obtain at least 6 peer-reviewed articles and/or books on your topic. These sources should be seminal pieces and/or recent (published after 2010) studies conducted on your topic. These sources should discuss those criminological theories associated with the topic, the methods used to study the topic, and the important variables associated with this topic. In your write-up, summarize the articles in a synthesized manner. Your literature review should provide the following:1)Describe the key variables used and how they were measured, and their relationship with the topic under investigation;2)Discuss the theoretical perspectives the authors use to explain the relationships between their variables3)Discuss the various methods used by the authors of each source, how they collected their data and what they found;4)Outline the limitations or challenges of this particular area of research;5)Use subheadings to organize your literature review into meaningful subsections6)Include an introduction and a conclusion to the literature review;Here is the link to a 10 minute video that goes more in depth of exactly how the paper should be. PLEASE REVIEW this video before starting the paper, it will extremely help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N87SGIbvULs&t=22
