Correlation between Crime and Ethinicity

In this assignment, you will conduct your own small research study, based on your proposed research question and methods. Your 3 to 5 page written report will show what you learned from your study –your research findings. The purpose of the pilot study is to: 1. test your proposed methods, and determine which methods would work well and which might need to be changed were you to do a larger study on your research question. 2. help you predict three findings, based on the results of the pilot study, for the “Anticipated Findings” section of your final research proposal. WHAT TO DO Conduct a small, realistic, and ethical (i.e. no high-risk groups, such as minors and inmates) study based on your planning statement and proposed research methods. For interviews, be sure to develop a short interview guide of topics and questions. Assume that you will not need to ask all of the questions; better to be prepared with too many options than too few. As you conduct the interview, create follow-up questions based on what your informant tells you, rather than sticking rigidly to your prepared list. And be sure to take notes in some way! For surveys, make sure all of your questions and answer options (attributes) are clear and well written. Also, make sure you have a codebook. Check your survey against what you learned about writing strong surveys, in SOCU 301: Social Research Design. And be certain that you’ve planned and written out your procedures in detail. Please avoid surveying classes at Brandman! For experiments, make sure the experiment is small, manageable, and harmless. Also, make sure there is a control group and an experimental group, each meeting the same set of specific criteria. You must have a well-thought out stimulus and placebo too. Be certain that you’ve written out your procedures in detail, including plans for what to do if problems arise. Review material on experimental design from SOCU 301: Social Research Design. For participant observation or observation, make sure you can ensure anonymity or confidentiality and that your presence will not harm anyone in any way. Take as many notes as possible and review them (or write them up into a report) as soon as possible. Also, take into account how your presence (and note-taking) may have influenced others’ behavior. For content analysis, make sure you choose only two or three cultural and social artifacts and that you make careful observations of these artifacts, taking notes using a carefully constructed coding/data table. Review material on content analysis from SOCU 301: Social Research Design. WHAT TO WRITE Write a report of three to five pages that includes the components below. Your paper should use APA format, including a cover sheet, page numbers, double-spaced, and free of spelling and grammar errors. Do not write an abstract. Save your paper repeatedly as you write it, in .doc or .docx format. Please read over your paper and correct errors before handing it in. a. Begin with a cover page in APA format. b. In the first section (approximately a half page to a page), introduce your participants or artifacts in as much detail as possible. Describe how these participants or artifacts fit the criteria you wrote about in the Methods section of your proposal. If they don’t fit some of the criteria exactly, explain why. c. In the second section (approximately a half page to a page), describe how well your chosen method or chosen instrument worked during both the course of your pilot study and your analysis of the results. Did it help you start to answer your research question? Why or why not? d. In your third section (approximately a half page to a page), describe how well you were able to follow your proposed procedures. What, if anything, did you do differently and why? e. In the fourth section (approximately a page), briefly describe the three major findings or results from your pilot study. f. In the conclusion (approximately a half page to a page), write about your overall experience doing the pilot study. What worked well, from the methods you proposed, and what might you do differently were you to do a larger research study on your research question? Please follow attached rubic.