General Law -You are a research assistant for the State Department of Law Enforcement
Subject: Law   / General Law
Question
Midterm Exam Part II (chapters 1-4)
Question 1
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You are a research assistant for the State Department of Law Enforcement. Your supervisor has requested that you assist the Director and help prepare a research project for publication in the next issue of Police Chief (which is widely read by law enforcement and criminal justice officials). Your job is to “Find out what types of offenders are arrested for hate crimes in your state”. Your assignment is to design a research project from your knowledge of research methods and based on your experience in designing and drafting your own projects.
1. What is your Goal/topic?
1 points
Question 2
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List two independent variables that you are going to use.
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2 points
Question 3
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What is your dependent variable?
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1 points
Question 4
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What indicators/attributes are you going to use from the independent variables that you just previously listed?
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2 points
Question 5
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What questions apply to those variables in relationship to the dependent variable?
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2 points
Question 6
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What is one hypothesis and one theory that relates to your variables and goal statement?
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