The goal of this assignment is to develop your critical thinking skills and enhance your ability to evaluate and analyze peer-reviewed research articles in the field of legal psychology consulting in criminal court. Your textbook can provide some ideas for areas of research within legal psychology consulting.
You will select one peer-reviewed research article that has been published during the last three years and write a comprehensive critique of the article. This assignment will help you understand the components of a research article, evaluate its strengths and weaknesses, and consider its implications for the field.
To complete this assignment, you will:
· Summarize a peer-reviewed research article of your choosing in an area of legal psychology consulting that was published in the last three years.
· Evaluate the research problem or question addressed in the article.
· Critique the research methodology identified in the article.
· Discuss the research design, data collection methods, and data analysis techniques.
· Analyze how the research study contributes to an understanding of issues in legal psychology consulting and testifying in criminal court.
· Discuss how the findings contribute to existing knowledge, identify potential applications, and suggest any future research directions.
The Legal Psychology Consulting Research Article Critique paper
· must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages and formatted according to
APA Style
must use at least one scholarly, peer-reviewed, credible source in addition to the course text
must include a separate title page with the following in title case:
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title of paper in bold font
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Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
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student’s name
