Research in criminal justice is very important when studying an issue. In this chapter’s assignment scenario, the Chief of Police has started a task force to identify the highest crime areas in the city. However, he needs assistance in determining the best way to identify the crime areas through research. Today, I will outline the best way to assist the Chief of Police by: identifying the four purposes of research and an example of each; explaining the relationship among the four purposes of research; and indicating which of the four purposes would be best for the Chief of Police to use. Four purposes of research Exploration. Exploratory research is used to obtain more information about a specific problem. It tells use the “what” or “why”
Because of budget constraints, the study only used one beat to collect data on the effects of increasing police patrol. Even though money was an issue, the experiment could have yielded better data by repeating the experiment multiple times to see if the data they collected would be reliable. The experiment also took place during the winter. The report of the study even noted that there was some evidence that crime activity levels declined, just as street activity does, because of colder weather. Although the design of the study contained weaknesses, some of the methods used by the researchers worked well for this type of study. One of the strengths of this experiment was the different methods used to acquire illegal guns in the beat. By using a variation of ways to seize illegal weapons in the “hot spot,” it allowed officers to increase their chances of finding more illegal guns. Using different methods of search also could have led to greater number of potential offenders to know that officers were looking for illegal weapons and refrained from offending. Another strength of the study includes the relatively inexpensive method to try to answer their hypothesis. Increasing police patrol is one of the more inexpensive methods and it did manage to decrease the number of gun crimes and homicide in the
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...hemselves and discuss the issues in society. Criminologists should build stronger relationships with media organizations so they can make the public more informed about effective crime policies with radio interviews, TV interviews and by writing columns in newspapers, etc. The stronger relationship and awareness made from media will influence the public perception towards implementing academically researched crime policies. Overall, the more knowledge the public has about academic approaches to solve crime issues will consequently direct the publics pressure for policymakers to use academic methods to create crime policies that are effective in solving crime issues. Consequently, the more informed the public becomes of the criminological approaches for crime policies will create a stronger relationship with criminologist and policymakers due to the public interest.
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Shaw and McKay (1942) focused their research on the rapidly expanding city of Chicago Illinois in the early 1900’s. Cullen and Agnew (2011) stated that the population of Chicago expanded from 1 million people in 1890 to double that size within 20 years. According to Cullen and Agnew (2011) it was in this era of rapid expansion that researches begin to think differently about crime. Cullen and Agnew (2011) stated that the researchers began to think that the understanding of crime may not be found in the studying of an individual criminal traits but the study of the traits of the environment in which a criminal lives and interacts. According to Cullen and Agnew (2011) this led to a question in which researchers thought a possible solution of controlling and explain crime would be found in changing environments and neighborhoods rather than changing people.
What should police be doing at crime hot spots? There are still concern about the effectiveness of hot spot policing, and what police officers should do in order to effectively reduce crime. Because police officer should be spending some time in these places it is essential to know what they should d...
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By approaching these ideas with solid research goals and planning, researchers have come up with two basic crime fighting strategies that can increase police effectiveness. The first strategy Community Policing, which addresses immedia...
In my undergraduate studies, I endeavored to further my knowledge and understanding up to the more advanced levels and achieved an outstanding result. As I started my CJ studies in the Spring of 2014, I became preoccupied by the systematic trainings that I received in the criminological theories, crime correction, and the relevant laws. I was keen to study for this particular program because I understood how this knowledge can be utilized to reduce and prevent crime to benefit the lower classes of different communities. These experiences helped me to build up a solid foundation to carry out higher-level research in the
Crime Analysis has many benefits to the community. Community engagement, targeted initiatives, strategic use of resources, and data-driven decision-making contribute to decreasing crime. Crime prevention and community satisfaction with police services, while linked to the number of officers on the streets, does not depend entirely on the visibility of patrol officers. Community engagement, targeted initiatives, strategic use of resources, and data-driven decision-making contribute to decreasing crime. So in closing I believe that departments that take the positive elements of foot patrols and combine their efforts with crime analysis that focuses on the time, location, and type of crime, may use the findings to develop strategies to decrease crime and enhance the quality of life in their communities.
This paper is intended to examine ethical issues in Criminological research and criminal justice. This paper will analyze the multitude of ethical concerns, as well as discuss the confidentiality requirements as it pertains to criminological research.
Throughout the research that Zimring provided, he was not able to explain any single type of theory that explains the crime decline in the 1990s. (Placeholder1) Inspector Zimring’s investigation indicates that many factors could have caused this phenomena. In conclusion, it is apparent that in order to understand crime rate increases and decreases, there needs to be expanded, ongoing research and gathering of statistics to explain the causes of past, current and future crime trends.