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Homework: Module Practice Activity Guidelines
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 will include an homework 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 homework 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 ?nal 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:
1) Types and classi?cations of offenders as de?ned by law
2) Types of crime as de?ned by law
3) The relationship between sociology and criminology
4) How classical and positivist schools of thought have in?uenced criminal justice practices
5) How biological and psychological theories have in?uenced criminal justice practices
6) How sociological theories have in?uenced criminal justice practices
7) How critical and interactionist theories may explain criminal behavior and in?uence the criminal justice system
8) How criminal justice professionals utilize criminological theories
9) How cultural views and values drive human behavior
10) The importance of applying theory versus making broad generalizations to explain behavior
11) The role of ethics in the application of theory
12) The correlation between criminal behavior theory and criminal justice practice
13) The importance of integrating biological, sociological, and environmental factors in an effort to explain criminal behavior.