Criminal Justice Unit-1

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Based on the feedback from your peers and instructor regarding your topic, finalize the thesis you will pursue for your research. Now you will develop a research plan that will include the following:
• Thesis statement: This statement presents the problem or issue you intend to research and should be clear and concise.
• Hypothesis: This is a statement of prediction regarding the results of the problem or issue. Briefly identify your working solution to the problem. How might your working solution solve the problem? Be sure to note here that your working solution will evolve through continued research and analysis.
• Measurement and analysis approach: Define the key points you will research and how you will gather and analyze the data you find. Intend to incorporate information related to technology and crime statistics that apply to your issue.
• Applicable resources: Identify 5 sources you have found that are most relevant and best support your purpose statement. List the sources and then record the main idea as notes to use as part of your research later. Identify case studies, library, Web, and other scholarly resources.
• Ethical standards: What are your ethical and legal responsibilities to ensure your final report will be of the highest ethical standards?
DB-1: 3-4 paragraphs
For this assignment, you will be selecting and discussing a contemporary criminal justice issue to pursue as part of your criminal justice research paper for this capstone course. The topic you select will be the focus throughout this course, so please select your topic wisely. When considering topics, think about the courses you have taken in the criminal justice program, issues you studied, and topics for which you developed an interest. You will want to select a topic that is not too broad, such as crime statistics, but rather consider a specific topic, such as how the collection and reporting of crime statistics could be modified to better account for the dark figure of crime.

Prepare 3-4 paragraphs presenting your topic to your peers and instructor. You should include the following based on your selected issue:
• Draft a thesis statement on your issue.
• Provide a brief explanation of why you selected this topic.
• What aspects of the topic do you anticipate pursuing in your research?
• What sources do you anticipate using in your research?
When commenting to your peers, provide constructive feedback for their topic. What questions come to mind on the topic? Does the topic appear to have a clear focus? Are there resources you have encountered in your studies that may be useful to them that they may not have considered?