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For this Assessment, design a research proposal for a crime issue affecting Durham, North Carolina. 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.
For The Assessment:
Design a study to examine the effect of child sex trafficking in Durham North Carolina from both a quantitative and qualitative approach. Your study proposal must include the following:
- Identify what is not yet known about the relationship between child sex trafficking and its effect on the community of Durham.
- Formulate a research question that you could explore in a research study. Your question should be an extension of current research.
- 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.
- Define your research variables (independent and dependent). Provide conceptual definitions of the key variables you need to measure.
- Explain/ how you would measure each variable.
- 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.
- Provide a description of mixed-methods approach taken.
I HAVE A LEARNING DISABILITY AND AM STRUGGLING WITIH THIS ONE. IF I CAN GET A LITTLE HELP STARTED ON EACH ONE WITH A FEW REFERENCES TO READ, PLEASE HELP! Below are a few more questions I need assistance with, please help with references too :) Thank you!
Statement of the problem -
Research Question -
Definition of Research Variables -
Research Design ( a small overview of the type of research design I am proposing like survey, experiment or existing data and how I would measure this variable into the study) -
Population (target population and existing data in specific concrete terms) -
Sampling (how would I sample the target population and why is is justified that this method is right for the research question and population proposed) -
Instrumentation (list of questions I only have 2 so far)
Any limitations on existing data of child sex trafficking in Durham NC) -