Overview: Understanding how data is collected is an important aspect of ensuring a research project’s or experiment’s overall validity. Research ethics is an integral part of any valid research finding. This research will potentially have a major impact on your decision as a leader within the criminal justice organization where you are employed. Therefore, it is vital to ensure proper findings by ethical data collection to minimize liability in your decisions.
Prompt: Read the following real-world case study: The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment. Then, read the following information on predictive policing: Assessment of the Shreveport Predictive Policing Experiment. Think about the research and data collection methods used in both studies. Compare and contrast both methods. Identify ways in which the findings of the research experiments could be vulnerable to liability. Suggest alternative methods to minimize liability in the research findings. If no vulnerabilities can be identified, explain how the methods used in the research experiment preserved ethical and accurate findings.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Compares and contrasts the data collection methods of two case studies
Identifies the vulnerabilities of the research findings and/or explains if methods used preserved ethical and accurate findings
Suggests alternative methods to limit liabilities
Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.
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Overview: Understanding how data is obtained is critical to assuring the overall validity of a research endeavor or experiment. Any legitimate study finding must include research ethics. This research could have a significant impact on your decision as a leader in the criminal justice organization where you work. As a result, it is critical to assure correct findings through ethical data collection in order to reduce culpability in your decisions.
Prompt: Examine the following real-life case study: Experiment with Preventive Patrol in Kansas City. Then, read the following predictive policing information: The Shreveport Predictive Policing Experiment was evaluated. Consider the research and data collection methodologies employed in both projects. Both strategies should be compared and contrasted. Determine how the research findings can be applied.
