Research Topic: Gun Violence Among Youth

 

 

 

If nothing else, research is a systematic process that demands the observers be meticulously objective about the steps taken. The process ensures that the researcher is able to conclude with an accurate assessment of the answers to the proposed questions in a manner that is replicable. Each step logically follows the preceding one. It is also pertinent that researchers remain open to and seek peer feedback, as all research falls victim to limitations. Therefore, this assignment allows us to examine the foundation of our research while simultaneously receiving feedback from fellow classmates.

 

 

 

By Day 3 of Week 8

 

 

 

In this practice area, share at least two operationalized variables or survey questions you plan to include in your research proposal. Your Instructor may also share exemplars or problematic definitions/survey items for you to examine and critique. 

 

 

 

Assignment 9: Part I of research proposal 

 

 

 

For this Assessment, you will design a research proposal for a crime issue affecting your community or region. Though you do not need to carry out the research proposal, it should be an implementable plan. The goal of this exercise is to allow you to look at criminal justice issues from the point of view of a researcher, examining the different facets of an issue that need to be taken into account to conduct research. This competency should expand your awareness of theories, designs, and methods that can be used to conduct criminal justice research, should you continue your studies at the doctoral level or be required to conduct research in your career.

 

 

 

The Assessment: Research Proposal

 

Research Topic: Gun Violence Among Youth

 

 

 

Design a study to examine the effect of crime on your community from both a quantitative and qualitative approach. Your study proposal should be 3–5 pages long and must include the following:

 

 

 

1.Choose a particular crime that is present in your community. Identify what is not yet known about the relationship between that particular crime and its effect on the community.

 

 

 

2.Formulate a research question that you could explore in a research study. Your question should be an extension of current research.

 

 

 

3. Select a population and a sampling technique to use for the research proposal. Describe the target population (including size of the population and other demographic and socioeconomic conditions, if known) and how you plan to sample it or whether you plan to use existing data.

 

 

 

4.  Define your research variables (independent and dependent). Provide conceptual definitions of the key variables you need to measure.

 

 

 

5. Explain/ how you would measure each variable.

 

 

 

6.  Identify survey instrument (if used): a list of survey questions that you would need to ask (if you plan to conduct a survey). If you choose existing data, be sure to provide evidence of reliability and validity and a description of the sample, concepts, and measures used in the original study. Also identify any limitations of the existing data.

 

 

 

7.  Provide a description of mixed-methods approach taken.

 

 

 

Assignment 11: Part II: Presentation of Executive Summery 

 

Research Topic: Gun Violence Among Youth

 

 

 

For this Assignment, you will deliver an executive summary of your research proposal. You will place yourself in the shoes of a criminal justice professional who must win buy-in for your research proposal by justifying its importance to a superior or other decision-making stakeholder. Your executive summary should be a synthesis of your proposal that allows your audience to quickly understand its purpose and goals.

 

 

 

 

 

You are a criminal justice professional who must present your research proposal to the chief/board/person who will approve the research. You must give a high-level executive summary of your proposal in a 2-minute proposal presentation.

 

 

 

Presentation must Include: 

 

  Issue research will address

 

Need for the approach you selected to address the problem

 

Focus of your research 

 

Benefits of conduct the research for the agency and ultimately community 

 Question 1

 

 

 

The video clip, “The Baloney Detection Kit,” this week discusses the ways an effective critical thinker assesses claims made by others.

 

• Examine some key reasons why people might seem attracted to pseudoscience-type claims.
• Describe at least two (2) such claims that you have heard people make and analyze the main reasons why such claims do or do not meet rigorous scientific methodology standards.
• Determine at least two (2) ways in which the material discussed this week has changed your own thinking.

 

 Question 2

 

 

 

Imagine you are interviewing for a job you really want.

 

The interviewer asks you the following question: “Explain a specific example in which you used critical thinking/problem solving strategies to solve a problem in the real world.”

 

• What is your answer to the question?
• Choose one classmate’s own response to the interviewer’s question. If you are a job coach, what suggestions would you make to maximize your classmate’s answer to the interview question?

 

 Question 3

 

 

 

Consider the following quote by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who believed that thought without language was impossible.

 

“The limits of my language are the limits of my life.”

 

For more information on Wittgenstein and his analysis on the importance of language, watch the video Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951) The Limits of Language.

 

 Next, examine whether it is possible to think without using language. If you believe it is possible, describe the primary ways in which a person might enact so-called “language-less” thinking. If you believe it is not possible, describe what you foresee as major problems with language-less thinking. 

• The objective function always includes all of the decision variables, but that is not necessarily true of the constraints. Explain the difference between the objective function and the constraints. Then, explain why a constraint need not refer to all the variables.
• Pick any constraint from any problem in the text, and explain how to plot the line that corresponds to that constraint.

1. If you were going on your first overseas business assignment, what would you do to ensure that you were prepared to deal with the ethical dilemmas you would likely face?
2. Your firm is expanding globally and is sending executives overseas for the first time. What will you do to be sure these individuals are prepared to deal with the ethical dilemmas they will face?
3. Imagine that someone from another culture asked you to provide information about business ethics when dealing with American managers. What would you say?
4. Talk with someone from another culture. Ask for information that would be helpful to you if you had to do business in their culture. What did you learn that you didn’t know before? How might you behave differently because of what you know?
5. Imagine yourself in a situation where you had to bribe someone or lose the deal. How would you think about it? What do you think you would do? Why? What factors might influence your decision? What would you hope for from your employer in terms of support?

Compare and contrast leadership roles and management responsibilities in a non-health care setting with that of a health care organization.  In addition, present an overview of key leadership traits fundamental for health care organizational effectiveness, and discuss the essential functions of health care managers. Provide a substantive 250 word initial post that fully answers the following questions: 

 

 

 

· What does it take to be a “good” leader or manager?

 

· What are the primary barriers and challenges associated with health care leadership?

Is the GDP Still Accurate in the Digital Age?

 

GDP is the sum of all income earned in a country during a year. Alternatively, it can be thought of as the value of all production in an economy during a year. But do income and production measure happiness?The way we measure GDP can both overstate and understate people’s happiness and well-being. It understates economic activity and well-being when it does not take into account production that is not exchanged in a market (grandma providing free baby-sitting) and leisure time. It overstates well-being when two otherwise identical activities are measured the same even though one produces more pollution.

 

Reply to these questions to begin your discussion:

 

• Should we continue to measure GDP as we do now? If you don’t think it should be changed, explain your reasoning. If you think it should be changed, what changes would you recommend, and why?

Discuss the overall importance of motivation as it relates to management. Provide a substantive 250 word initial post that fully answers the following questions: 

 

 

 

· What are the benefits of having a fully motivated staff, and what are the potential consequences of not having motivated staff?

 

· What do contemporary theories tell us about the significance of motivation as a function of employee needs, extrinsic and intrinsic factors?

 

· How do we motivate across generations? In your response, please be sure to identify and address at least two theories.