Select a peer-reviewed journal article that was published after 2010 to write your phase six essay. With a minimum of 500 words, describe the study and its results. This study should pertain to the research question you chose in phase four to investigate. The following questions should be answered in your essay:
The question I chose Crimes that increase as a result of the increase in drug trafficking.
Instructions:
a. Provide a proper APA citation for your article.
b. What is the research question the study was designed to answer?
c. What were the researchers trying to understand or explain? This is the dependent variable.
d. What variable(s) did the researchers think would help them to understand or explain the dependent variable listed above? This is the independent variable/variables.
e. Describe how data was collected (survey of people, data from an official criminal justice agency, analyses of laws, an observation or experiment).
f. Describe the sample that was used. This should include a number in the description.
g. Skip over the section where the statistical analysis is presented, and read the section labeled Findings or Discussion. Summarize the results of the study.
h. Towards the end of the article the researchers will mention the limitations of their study. What were the limitations of their study identified by the researchers?
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