Assignment: Part I: Research ProposalFor this Assessment, you will design a research proposal for a crime issue affecting your community or region. Though you do not need to carry out the research...

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Assignment: Part I: Research Proposal




For this Assessment, you will design a research proposal for a crime issue affecting your community or region. Though you do not need to carry out the research proposal, it should be an implementable plan. The goal of this exercise is to allow you to look at criminal justice issues from the point of view of a researcher, examining the different facets of an issue that need to be taken into account to conduct research. This competency should expand your awareness of theories, designs, and methods that can be used to conduct criminal justice research, should you continue your studies at the doctoral level or be required to conduct research in your career.



The Assessment:


Design a study to examine the effect of crime on your community from both a quantitative and qualitative approach. Your study proposal should be 3–5 pages long and must include the following:



  1. Choose a particular crime that is present in your community. Identify what is not yet known about the relationship between that particular crime and its effect on the community.

  2. Formulate a research question that you could explore in a research study. Your question should be an extension of current research.

  3. Select a population and a sampling technique to use for the research proposal. Describe the target population (including size of the population and other demographic and socioeconomic conditions, if known) and how you plan to sample it or whether you plan to use existing data.

  4. Define your research variables (independent and dependent). Provide conceptual definitions of the key variables you need to measure.

  5. Explain/ how you would measure each variable.

  6. Identify survey instrument (if used): a list of survey questions that you would need to ask (if you plan to conduct a survey). If you choose existing data, be sure to provide evidence of reliability and validity and a description of the sample, concepts, and measures used in the original study. Also identify any limitations of the existing data.

  7. Provide a description of mixed-methods approach taken.


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Answer To: Assignment: Part I: Research ProposalFor this Assessment, you will design a research proposal for a...

Tarun answered on Oct 31 2022
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Design a study to examine the effect of crime on your community from both a quantitative and qualitative approach.
Title of Study: Discussing the relationship between domestic
violence and liquor consumption and purchase among various sections of the society.
Research question: If there is any positive correlation between liquor consumption and domestic violence committed within the community?
Hypothesis: The hypothesis here is that the easy availability of liquor shall result in increased rates of domestic violence. Furthermore, this is also likely to be affected by stability of a person’s lifestyle—i.e., those with unstable means of income in high cost of living areas might be more prone to domestic violence when they have consumed liquor, since they are already under an amount of stress due to the lack of a stable lifestyle.
Sampling Method and Population: A type of correlational research design is to be utilised here, to discover whether there is a positive or negative relation between domestic violence and liquor consumption. For the sampling method, stratified sampling under probability sampling method shall be used. Target population would be that of Noida, consisting of 6,37,272 persons.
The population is to be divided into three strata—lower class, middle class, and upper class, characterised by income level, i.e., below 5 lakhs per annum being lower class, between 5 to 40 lakhs per annum being middle class, and above 40 lakhs per annum being upper class. Of this, 150 people from each stratum to be selected for survey, half of whom shall be working persons, and the other half shall be their dependant spouses, i.e., a total of 450 persons.
Variables in the Study: The independent variable is the cause, i.e., that...
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