Describe the steps that would be necessary to gain access to a formal organization for the purposes of doing field research. (Do not just list the steps, you need to describe what each is and what it entails)
Identify and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each of the following:
a. open-ended questions
b. closed-ended questions
ASU has decided to track students’ changing perceptions of crime and safety on campus from the time they enter ASU to when they graduate. The study proposes to administer a questionnaire to all ASU academic scholarship students (because they are the most likely to graduate on time) every semester. The questionnaire will ask students whether they have witnessed a crime on campus, participated in a crime on campus, or heard about a crime on campus. ASU wants to involve criminal justice students in the process, so each semester a CRJ 302: Research Methods class will draft the questions to be asked of the scholarship students that semester. You are asked to evaluate the experimental design process, describe the experimental design you would use (and why), indicate how you would select your sample, and discuss any limitations in the experiment, such as threats to validity.
You have been invited to give a talk about qualitative research to a group of criminal justice researchers who all firmly believe the only type of research criminal justice researchers should be performing is quantitative research. What would you say about the benefits and ideal applications of qualitative research that might convince them otherwise? In the spirit of intellectual honesty, what are the drawbacks and limitations of qualitative research?
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