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Please, choose one of these narrow topics (Does Incarceration Reduce Crime) or (Incapacitation effect) rather than (Criminal Justice).

Assignment 2 is to solidify your research topic, research question(s) and hypotheses. Like Assignment 1. Basically, this assignment is the start of you building a draft of your research proposal.

For this assignment, you are to address the following questions in 2-3 double-spaced pages with 1" margins (all sides) and 12 point font. Your heading should be no longer than one line, and should include the following: name, course, and assignment #. Please number each response, and submit your assignment in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format. Make sure that you follow the directions carefully.

1. State a problem for research. In other words, state the research question(s) you have decided upon for your research proposal.

2. Search the literature/Internet for information about the research question you have identified. Copy down at least 10 citations to articles and five websites reporting research that seems highly relevant to your research question. Inspect the article reference sections and the links in the websites to identify other potential sources.

2a. After documenting your 10 citations, and looking through the articles and websites, discuss what additions or changes to your thoughts about the research questions are suggested by the sources?

3. Propose at least 2 hypotheses that pertain to your research question stated in question 1. Justify these hypotheses in terms of the literature you had read.

4. Discuss which standards for the protection of human subjects might pose the most difficulty for researchers on your proposed topic/to answer your research question(s). Make sure that you clearly explain your answers and suggest appropriate protection procedures for human subjects.

You should read Assignment 1 to get the idea about the topic to start in Assignment 2 (Assignment 1 is attached and the topic was changed from Criminal Justice to "Does Incarceration Reduce Crime?" or "Incapacitation effect" you can choose on of these two topics).

There are 7 articles in attachment so you must use them to copy down at least 10 citations, and five websites reporting research that must be from (.gov).

This assignment to help you get the ball rolling on the beginning stages of your research proposal. For this assignment, you are to address the following questions in 2-3 double-spaced pages with 1" margins (all sides) and 12 point font. Your heading should be no longer than one line, and should include the following: name, course, and assignment #. Please number each response, and submit your assignment in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format. Assignments submitted in Mac files or .pdf format will not be accepted. Make sure that you follow the directions carefully.

1. What social science topic are you interested in designing a research project on? Why this topic?

2. Develop four questions that you might investigate about the topic you selected. Each question should reflect a different research motive: Descriptive, exploratory, explanatory, and evaluative.

3. Of the four research questions, which one interests you the most? Would you prefer to attempt to answer that question using quantitative or qualitative methods? Why?