Research Proposal
For your course project, you will develop a proposal for a field test to design, implement, measure, and evaluate a problem-oriented policing crime reduction program in a major U.S. city. You will select a city (New York) and develop the proposal .
This paper is a research proposal.
Designing a research proposal requires planning and a specific format for putting your ideas together. Chapter 4 of your textbook outlines this process and gives a summary overview of what the proposal should look like. The following list provides the elements of a research proposal.
Problem or Objective
2. Literature Review
3. Research Questions
4. Subjects for Study
5. Measurement
6. Data Collection Methods
7. Analysis
8. References
9. Schedule
10. Budget
Your proposal should include all ten elements and the first four should be in detail. Remember you have already submitted the literature review which included an overview of the problem or objective. You must now design appropriate research questions and discuss the subjects for the study. You will want to briefly outline the measurement, data collection methods, type of analysis you intend to use as well as a timeline and hypothetical budget. Remember, research proposals and studies evolve as they unfold, and need to be continually refined. As you get deeper into your research, you may find the need to make adjustments to any one of these steps. For this assignment, it is critical that you develop a sound set of research questions for your study. The research questions will then drive the remainder of your proposal. If done correctly, you should end up with approximately 3-5 pages. Remember to use citations in the APA style and include a reference page.
The following sites may be useful:
Center for Problem Oriented Policing. Retrieved from http://www.popcenter.org/
• Research Proposal on Fear of Crime. Retrieved from http://www.articlesbase.com/criminal-articles/research-proposal-on-fear-of-crime-1908479.html
• How to write a research proposal. Retrieved from http://www.studygs.net/proposal.htm
• K. Kelsky. (2011, March 9). Karen’s Foolproof Research Proposal Template. [Web log comment]. Retrieved from http://projectgraduateschool.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/karens-famous-and-foolproof-research-proposal-template/
Book below
Maxfield and Babbie, Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology (7th ed.)
Chapter 12: Agency Records, Content Analysis, and Secondary Data
Chapter 13: Evaluation Research and Problem Analysis
Module notes
Article from the Internet:
Hamilton, Z. (2010). Do reentry courts reduce recidivism? [PDF File Size 303 KB] Results from Harlem Parole Reentry Court. Retrieved from http://www.courtinnovation.org/sites/default/files/Reentry_Evaluation.pdf
View the following websites:
National Institute of Justice (NIJ). Retrieved from http://www.nij.gov/
National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ). Retrieved from http://www.ncjj.org/
Institute for Law and Justice (ILJ). Retrieved from http://www.ilj.org/
Rand Safety and Justice Program. Retrieved from http://www.rand.org/jie/research/safety-justice.html
Online video:
(2011). An Introduction to Evaluation Research [Video File 54:09 mins]. Available from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX1OXsSqMLc
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