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Developing a Problem Statement cjd21

1.Develop a problem statement and hypothesis you could test in
your current or desired criminal justice career, based on your reading of the
Hernon and Schwartz article “What Is a Problem Statement?”

2. Identify the primary independent and dependent variables that
would support your hypothesis.

3.Explain how the inductive research process differs from the
deductive research process providing examples to explore when each type of
research is most appropriate.

4.Specify whether you would use inductive or deductive research
and reasoning to test your hypothesis based on the research circle discussed in
Chapter 2 of Fundamentals of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice.

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Competencies
Addressed in This Discussion cjd31

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The purpose of this
discussion is to understand that ethical gray areas exist and fellow researcher
may view the same concept very differently. In an effort to highlight varying
viewpoints regarding ethics in research, based on your reading assignment and
any additional research needed, address the following in your main post:

5.Devise a list of 3–5 ethical violations in
criminological research methodology, based on a study other than the Stanford
Prison Experiment.

6.Analyze whether you would consider each
research method a true ethical violation and to what degree.

7.Explain whether IRB and ACJS ethical
standards are enough to ensure that criminal justice research is conducted
using ethical research methods.

Unethical Research: The Stanford Prison Experiment cjd32

After reading about the
Stanford Prison Experiment in Chapter 3 of your Fundamentals of Research in
Criminology and Criminal Justice text and viewing the Quiet Rage: The
Stanford Prison Experiment video about the Stanford Prison Experiment
conducted by Stanford University, conduct Internet research to identify an
ethical study conducted by a criminal justice agency (as opposed to a
scholar-practitioner such as a university). Then address the following in your
main post:

8.Analyze whether the research methods used in the Stanford
Prison Experiment were ethical.

9.Explain
whether it was ethical to trade the suffering experienced by participants for
the knowledge gained by the research.

10. Illustrate the characteristics of an ethical research study
conducted by a criminal justice agency.

11. Differentiate the ethical research methods used in the study
conducted by a criminal justice agency and the deceptive research methods
employed in the Stanford Prison Experiment.

12. Determine what you believe was the worst ethical violation in
the Stanford Prison Experiment and how it could have been avoided.