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Instructions:
Answer the discussion questions corresponding to the following journal article that is attached:
Hurst, Yolander G., and James Frank. 2000. “How Kids View Cops: The Nature of Juvenile Attitudes toward the Police.”
Journal of Criminal Justice 28(1): 189-202.
The following questions are designed to assess a student’s ability to comprehend issues of conceptualization/operationalization in the field of criminology/criminal justice – and the selected article was 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 conceptualization/operationalization strategies employed by the authors; validity of the sampling procedures used; etc.). While there is no specific length requirement, students are expected to answer the questions in full.
Questions (Answer Questions in full
)
1. What was the general topic of this research (be specific)?
2. What was the central hypothesis of this research?
3. Specifically identify the dependent variable(s). Describe the conceptualization/operationalization procedures used to represent the dependent variable. Be specific.
4. In your estimation, describe the strengths and weaknesses of the conceptualization/operationalization scheme used to represent the dependent variable(s).
5. Specifically identify the independent variables. Describe the conceptualization/operationalization procedures used to represent the
independent variable. Be specific.
6. In your estimation, describe the strengths and weaknesses of the conceptualization/operationalization scheme used to represent the
independent variable(s).
7. Assess the
internal validity of the research design used in this article.
8. Assess the
external validity of the research design used in this article.
9. With regard to questions 5 and 6, in particular, how would you improve on the conceptualization/operationalization procedures used to represent the primary independent and dependent variables in this study? How would you replicate this study, making it a stronger study methodologically?
Format:
MUST
be
single-spaced WITHIN each answer, with a double space BETWEEN each answer.
Additionally, the project
MUST be typed, with
1” margins throughout the document. 12-point, Times New Roman Font.
