Psychological research is research that a psychologist conducts to study the experiences and behaviors of certain individuals or groups. Psychological research plays a big role in the society. Psychological research helps to explain the behavior and mental process in individuals. Without psychological research, we would be unable to conduct the research to explain the behavior using theories. Psychological research plays a major part in society because it helps the psychology community to better understand the behavior and mental capabilities of society. There are a lot of psychology research method that can be used to do research. All of the research methods have plenty of advantages and disadvantages. My opinion of psychology research is …show more content…
I am conducting this study because I believe in Baltimore City there are a lot of people who are living in poverty and who also are committing crime because of their living situation. Baltimore crime and death rates has been going up in the last couple of years. In my opinion I think the death rate and crime rate is going up because people living in poverty. When a person lives in poverty means they are considered poor. If a person cannot afford certain things, they will steal or kill for it. The crime rate and death rate plays a big part in poverty because people will either steal what they want or even kill for it. Baltimore is not an equality place. When I say equality, meaning everyone are not treated the same or have the same opportunities as others. The death rate in Baltimore City is very high especially over West Baltimore. I have found two articles explain how poverty affects the human behavior. One article explains that poverty affects human behavior and brain. Another article explains how psychology strategies can help overcome poverty. As the years past there have been studies that show west Baltimore has the most crime and people who are without a home. I believe the study I am conducting is very important. Once I have completed the study and bring the problem to everyone attention, we then can find a way to fix the problem. My research will …show more content…
Hypothesis H0: There is no significant relationship between criminal activity and poverty among individuals in West Baltimore. Hypothesis H1: There is a relationship between criminal activity and poverty among the individuals in West Baltimore. The study adopted correlational research method to aid collection of data to obtain reasonable data to investigate how and why poverty leads to criminal activity. I will conduct the research in west Baltimore area. I will be using high school students and college students around the area. I will be using a survey online and targeting high school and college students who grew up or currently live in west Baltimore. In order to take this survey online the student must be over the age of eighteen. I will get the survey out by using social media. My goal is to get a sample of a certain amount of adults both male and female. First, I will conduct the search by finding the schools that are located in west Baltimore. Since this survey will be conducted online, I will ask the student for their birth date and choose from a list what school they attend. The best question is how I will get the survey to the student. In order to get the survey to the students, I will use the school social media, every school has a social media page run by students itself. Since the instrument I will be using is going to be a survey, I will be asking students to answer certain questions. The
In the study, they neglect to factor in the financial needs of their subjects. The study of Broken Window was based on the results received from higher income neighborhoods; in those neighborhoods financial circumstances are not crucial to families. Financial factors vary from neighborhood to neighborhood and even from family to family within the same neighborhoods. Ignoring this financial need in the areas where the studies were done lead to fundamental misunderstandings in the theory. The study generalizes the outcome of one broken window. Having a broken window on any property does not automatically lead to more broken windows, like suggested by the results of the cars placed in California and the Bronx. The level of desperation of families due to their financial circumstances leads to increasing crime rates. When the economy is unstable, a lot of people become unemployed; people that still have the obligation of sustaining their families. This may lead them to turn to illegal activities for a fast extra source of income. In these situations, crimes involving robberies and drugs increase in
An academic study done on violent crime in San Antonio for the SciVerse Science Direct journal analyzes how built in environmental characteristics influence such a diverse and rapidly growing city. San Antonio’s population consists of 60% Hispanics, a poverty rate of over 18%, a teenage birth rate of 39/1000, and a homicide rate of 6.9 per 100,000 (302). The results of the study indicate that residential instability, poverty and low education rates are the biggest factors contributing to San Antonio’s crime increase (not forgetting the obvious population increase contribution). Almost 7% of San Antonio homes are “vacant” while 40% are rented, not owned (Sparks 304). The author explains that rented homes are usually what are inhabited by single mothers, military members, minorities, and lower income families that have increased chances of poverty and susceptibility to criminal involvement (Sparks 305). O’Sullivan shows how the relationship between crime and wage is very elastic, so a 10% increase in wages would lead to a 10% decrease in crime. In San Antonio’s case, the unstable nature of land use creates a lower opportunity cost for committing property crimes on vacant areas. A detailed map in the study showed how the north and northwestern areas of San Antonio with more housing turnover and housing construction consequently
Residential inequality created by Macrosocial patterns is an important factor of violence and crime in poor inner city neighborhoods. This leads to social isolation of poor blacks and ecological concentration of of blacks and other disadvantaged people. The structural barriers include good schools and universities,employment opportunities, protection by the police, institutions like churches, and more barriers from organized community organizations. The people of these communities have fewer legal opportunities compared to the middle class to achieve success in legal ways and can influence the involvement in crime to find success and
Psychology can be broadly defined as the scientific and systematic study of people’s behavior and mental processes.
One of the biggest issues in America today is crime. It is a large problem that continues to erode our country economically as well as morally. Because of the vastness of the problem, many have speculated what the cause for crime may be in hopes that a solution will be found. Many believe that a bad family life, location of residence, and poverty hold a few of the answers to why an individual becomes involved in criminal activity.
...tal factors poor, urban, minority youths commit more crimes. Researchers also must be aware that crime is changing due to technology. There is now more instances of cyber theft, and computer crimes than in the past, therefore the dynamics of the people that are capable to commit certain sorts of crimes are changing.
Freeman, Richard B. (1983). The relationship between criminality and the disadvantaged.. Ch.6 In Crime and Public Policy, (Eds)., James Q. Wilson, (pp.917-991). San Francisco: ICS Press.
Psychology is the study of the behavior of living organisms. The people that study the behaviors are called psychologists. There have been many studies done by these people to try and figure out why people or animal do the things they do. Psychology's four main goals are to describe what occurred, explain why it occurred, predict what event is likely to occur next, and to change to prevent unwanted outcomes. Psychologists study the process of thinking, learning, cognition, emotions, motivations, and personalities. An example of one study that has been done would be why a dog salivates to the sound of a bell and show. This behavior is due to a conditioned stimulus becoming a conditioned response. Another experiment done was with a baby and a white mouse to see if the baby would be scared if something happened while grabbing for the mouse.
The term psychology has many meanings to different people, even to those who work within the psychological field. The word psychology derives from two Greek roots; 'psyche' refers to 'soul' or 'mind' and logo refers to 'the study of'. A more update definition of the word psychology can be found from Atkinson, et al (1991) “The scientific study of behaviours and mental processes.” However on Google Definitions the definition of psychology is “the mental characteristics and attitudes of a person” [accessed 16 September 2011], which gives somewhat of a contradiction. In this assignment I will be outlining and evaluating four key psychological perspectives. The psychological perspectives I have chosen are the behavioural approach, biological approach, cognitive approach and the psychodynamic approach.
Psychology is a social science that aims to study the mind and the behaviors of humans. It aims to understand what drives humans to act the way they do. It differs from sociology and anthropology in that it takes accounts the individual rather than society as a whole.
Analyzing data in the field of criminal justice is important because it helps to identify trends that can be pertinent for officers and administration to know. Gathering and analyzing data can help officers find which problems need the most attention in which areas. Examples of such information include what types of crimes are being committed, what neighborhoods are experiencing the most criminal activity, what are the demographics of the offenders committing the crimes, what time of day are the most crimes committed, and how much has the crime activity changed over certain periods of time. “Having a strong foundation in research methods and data analysis techniques will help you to properly collect, analyze, and make sense of the data pertaining
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior and translates as science of the soul. It is the study of human behavior and deals with how we think, feel, and act. Some areas of psychology are clinical, industrial, physiological, experimental, personality, social, and developmental. Psychologists can work in hospitals, schools, rehabilitation facilities, in public and private clinics or in the research field. They usually treat persons with mental and emotional disorders, so one may ask; why bother with psychology if you do not want to actually work as a psychologist? Even though it happens that i do want to study psychology, this year that i was introduced to it,i discovered that even if i wanted to study something entirely different, psychology would still be useful to me. So when studying psychology, you learn about human nature. This means that psychology actually has impact on every aspect in life. It helps see through the motives other people too have more importantly, it will help you to understand your own motives better. As a result
Research is a necessary skill in the Psychology field because it is the key to observing, diagnosing, and treating clients with psychological problems. “Among the health care professions clinical psychology is one of few to provide extensive research training.” (Howes, 1996) Clinical Psychologist uses the scientific method as the procedure for research. Psychology is the only mental health discipline that has its roots in academic research rather than in practice. “Research is the foundation of all Clinical Psychology activities.” (Plante, 2005)
The respondents were asked 22 questions in the questionnaires. In the questionnaire I asked their age group, gender, who their abuser was, if the child was abused physically, sexually, emotionally, or psychologically and if they were mistreated because their parent or parents were abused as a child. I also asked if the child was ever arrested or charged for a criminal act and if answered yes then what was the reason why they arrested or charged. I surveyed The information gotten from the respondents is most out of 13 children 40 percent of them are between the ages of 8 to10 and 29 percent were between the ages of 11to13 and 31 percent abused between the ages of 14 to 16. I have found out that out of 13 children 6 of them are females that are victims of child abuse and the remaining children are males. Most of the children were abused by a step-parent or a parent. One of the important information that I have found out is that majority of the children were physically or emotionally abused as a child at times and very often. Most of the children reported that they were either being mistreated by a parent(s) who were abused as a child or the abuser have problems with drugs or alcohol.
For economic factors, low wages would be the variable that would lead to poverty. Families that receive low wages can barely support their living expenses. Thus they would not have enough money for programs that would aid their children’s education. Some families think that crime has better incentives than working a low paying job and thus crime could be put in as an economic factor that leads to poverty. Not having enough money for programs like education leads to the ind...