Design a basic randomised experiment to test the hypothesis that unemployment leads to crime. After thinking about this, you may find it useful to see whether and how other researchers have tried to...

Design a basic randomised experiment to test the hypothesis that unemployment leads to crime. After thinking about this, you may find it useful to see whether and how other researchers have tried to study this issue using randomised designs. How are you going to operationalise these two variables? Is it possible to manipulate unemployment and how can you do so? If you are going to carry out a laboratory experiment, you may have to operationalise unemployment in a more contrived way than if you carry out an experiment in a more natural or field setting. How can you reduce the ethical problems that may arise in the operationalisation of these variables? How many participants will you have in each condition? How will you select these participants? Will you pre-test your participants? Will you use a between-subjects or a within subjects design? How will you analyse the results? What will you say to participants about the study before and after they take part?