see two attachments
Instructions:
Answer a series of discussion questions corresponding to the attached artice:
(1) Copes, Heith, Andy Hochstetler, and Craig Forsyth. 2013. “Peaceful warriors: Codes for Violence among Adult Male Bar Fighters.”
Criminology 51: 761-794.
The following questions are designed to assess a student’s ability to comprehend qualitative research designs in the field of criminal justice – and the selected articles were chosen explicitly with this premise in mind. Questions will range from the relatively rudimentary (i.e., basic questions on variables, purpose of the study, etc.) to questions that are much more layered and philosophical in nature (issues pertaining to the validity of the chosen design, vis-à-vis other possible research designs – i.e., quantitative designs). While there is no specific length requirement per se, students are expected to answer the questions in full. As is the case with all written work, in order to receive a strong grade on this project, students should write in a manner that reflects a solid adherence to the conventions of the English language (i.e., free of egregious grammatical/spelling errors), and answer the questions correctly.
Questions (Answer Questions in full
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1. What was the general topic of this research (be specific)?
2. What type of methodology was used (again, be specific)?
3. What was the central hypothesis of this research (if relevant)?
4. Identify the independent variable used in this study. How was the variable operationalized?
5. What was the primary dependent variable used in this study? How was it operationalized?
6. Assess the
internal validity of the research design used in this article.
7. Assess the
external validity of the research design used in this article.
8. What were the primary results of the study?
9. What conclusions/practical applications can be taken away from this research? Do you find that the authors made the right conclusions, given the data that they utilized?
10. What are the general strengths and weaknesses of this research design, particularly as far as validity is concerned? Was the methodology employed appropriate, or would another research design have been more appropriate for this topic? Discuss in detail.
11. How would you replicate this study, making it a stronger study methodologically?
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single-spaced WITHIN each answer, with a double space BETWEEN each answer. MUST
be typed, with
1” margins throughout the document. 12-point, Times New Roman Font
