Motivational Boot Camp

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In a narrative format of 750 or more words, identify: 
 

 

The research problem (what the authors were studying), the researchers in this particular study are attempting to make a determination of whether offenders that graduate from rehabilitation based boot camps have a lower recidivism rate than those that would have graduated from a boot camp that was more traditionally based. The boot camps that are question here can be best described as traditional, more disincline based in nature, while the rehabilitation would place more factors on education and helping the offender return and become successful in society (Kempinen & Kurlychek, 2003).

Research design, the particular design of this problem is experimental, our text lists three (3) separate types of these: Experimental designs, Quasi-experimental designs, and Preexperimental designs (Hagan, 2010), the An Outcome Evaluation of Pennsylvania’s Boot Camp: Does Rehabilitative Programming within a Disciplinary Setting Reduce …show more content…

The group in which the boot camp program would be compared with would be offenders that were released from the state prison system during that same time frame and would be equivalent to five hundred thirty two (532) participants. The article made the following note, which I think would be very important to the validity of the group. The comparison group consisted of offenders that were eligible for the program but did not attend for one reason or another, such as was not recommended by the judge, were not accepted by the Department of Corrections or just didn’t volunteer for the program itself (Kempinen & Kurlychek,

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