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Assignment: Practice Activity- Research Questions
Overview
For your course in the Criminal Justice program, you will be expected to create and investigate a research question. To help you prepare for that task, each course in the program includes an assignment in which you will review various research topics and submit at least one research question to your instructor for feedback. You will record your questions from each course in an ePortfolio so you can easily access them to develop your research question.
Prompt
Using the topics listed below (or others covered in this course), create one to three research questions and submit them to your instructor. This assignment is graded based on completion, and instructor feedback should help you strengthen your questions for future use.
After you have submitted these questions to your instructor, upload the questions (and the list of potential topics below, if you wish) to your ePortfolio PDF.
To view some sample research questions, refer to this research resource from the Shapiro Library. There is also a helpful page that addresses research question creation and expectations that you may want to explore.
Note: If this is the first time you are submitting a research question to support your work in the course, you should create a folder within your ePortfolio with the title "Research Questions," as you will be adding questions to this folder throughout the program. Follow these ePortfolio instructions PDF on creating a folder within your ePortfolio.
Topics:
Question 1. The evolution of victimology
Question 2. Interactions between victims of crime and criminal justice professionals
Question 3. How people, businesses, and corporations become victims
Question 4. Experiences of the victim in the criminal justice system
Question 5. How empathy influences interactions between victims of crime and criminal justice professionals
Question 6. Appropriate responses to different kinds of victimization
Question 7. The process of working with child victims in the criminal justice system
Question 8. The process of working with special circumstance victims in the criminal justice system
Question 9. How victimization data are collected and applied to address problems in the criminal justice system
Question 10. How the media can influence empathy as it pertains to the criminal justice process
Question 11. How empathy is applied throughout the restorative justice process in criminal justice?