QUESTION
1
DISCUSS THE SOCIAL
SCIENCE APPROACH AND ITS USE IN THE FIELD OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
YOUR
RESPONSE MUST BE AT LEAST 200 WORDS IN LENGTH.
QUESTION
2
EXPLAIN WHY ETHICS ARE
SO IMPORTANT IN RESEARCH.
YOUR
RESPONSE MUST BE AT LEAST 200 WORDS IN LENGTH.
QUESTION
3
THE TEXTBOOK PROVIDES
SEVEN STEPS IN ITS DISCUSSION OF HOW TO CONDUCT RESEARCH. EXPLAIN EACH OF
THE SEVEN STEPS.
YOUR
RESPONSE MUST BE AT LEAST 300 WORDS IN LENGTH.
IN THIS CHAPTER, WE SHIFT FROM EXAMINING THE WHY OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
TO AN OVERVIEW OF THE HOW—THE FOCUS OF THE REST OF THE BOOK. WE WILL CONSIDER
HOW TO DEVELOP A QUESTION FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH AND THEN HOW TO REVIEW THE
EXISTING LITERATURE ABOUT THIS QUESTION WHILE CONNECTING THE QUESTION TO SOCIAL
THEORY AND, IN MANY STUDIES, FORMULATING SPECIFIC TESTABLE HYPOTHESES (SEE
EXHIBIT 2.2). WE WILL THEN DISCUSS DIFFERENT SOCIAL RESEARCH STRATEGIES AND
STANDARDS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH AS A PRELUDE TO COVERING THE DETAILS ABOUT THESE
STAGES IN SUBSEQUENT CHAPTERS. YOU WILL FIND MORE DETAILS IN APPENDIXES A AND B
ABOUT REVIEWING THE LITERATURE. WE WILL USE THE MINNEAPOLIS EXPERIMENT AND THE
RELATED RESEARCH TO ILLUSTRATE THE DIFFERENT RESEARCH STRATEGIES AND SOME OF
THE RELATED TECHNIQUES. THE CHAPTER ALSO EXPANDS ON THE ROLE OF SOCIAL THEORIES
IN DEVELOPING RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND GUIDING RESEARCH DECISIONS. BY THE
CHAPTER’S END, YOU SHOULD BE READY TO FORMULATE A RESEARCH QUESTION, CRITIQUE
PREVIOUS STUDIES THAT ADDRESSED THIS QUESTION, AND DESIGN A GENERAL STRATEGY
FOR ANSWERING THE QUESTION.