Criminal Justice Research and Reputable Resources

Part 1. Criminal Justice Research and Reputable Resources

For your main post, locate two reputable journal articles through the Capella University Library or Internet research and one nonreputable article on the Internet that focus on issues of a single general criminological or criminal justice issue, such as criminology or crime and delinquency.

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Then respond to the following:

1.Analyze the three articles selected, highlighting which articles should be considered reputable, and why.

2.Explain your understanding of science versus pseudoscience in the context of reputable research resources.

3.Discuss whether the articles you selected contain science or pseudoscience.

4.Determine what research methods are used in the selected articles, whether they are used by a criminal justice agency or scholar-practitioner, and why.

5.Discuss whether the articles selected are descriptive, evaluative, explanatory, or exploratory. Include in your discussion what characteristics make them so, and what makes the method used the best fit for the study over other research methods.

·Parts 2 The (Mis)measurement of Crime

Whether measurement of social phenomena is accurate can depend on the time and context of the data being measured. As societal views change, the meaning of the data can change with it. Therefore, it is important to select precise indicators when measuring abstract concepts, such as when trying to operationalize social phenomena. Before completing the discussion, view Crime Analyst in Action Introduction to meet a crime analyst who shares her career challenges and strategies and introduces the research process she uses in a recent assignment.

In your main post:

1.Explain the necessary factors to consider before public opinion survey results can be trusted as a reputable criminal justice resource, based on the principles of survey research examined in Chapter 1 of The Mismeasure of Crime.

2.Discuss how you could use public opinion research in your current or future career path based on its reliability as a resource.

3.Examine the benefits public opinion research would bring to your sector of interest in the criminal justice field versus other more or less reputable research resources.