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Research Procedure, Methods, and Ethical Considerations You will now develop a research timeline and further refine the methods and ethical consideration sections of your proposal. Rather than creating a new document to complete the assignment, instead make the additions and revisions within the corresponding sections of your current research proposal (the one you submitted for the Unit 1 Assignment). Complete the following for the Unit 5 Assignment: 1. Timeline: For this assignment, you will develop a timeline for your proposed study. The timeline will become the first section of the research proposal. Carefully review the unit readings before preparing your timeline. Create a timeline (with corresponding due dates) for the completion of each major milestone in the research study. Each milestone should be a subheading within your timeline in which you include a brief narrative describing the associated tasks that would need to be completed in order to achieve each milestone. 2. Methods (formerly called Research Design):Revise the data collection portion, also known as the methods, of the research proposal that you resubmitted in Unit 1 (and initially created in CJ525). Address any feedback that you professor provided on the research design section of your Unit 1 Assignment. You will now apply what you have learned about the tools and methods for collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, as well as appropriate sampling techniques. Consider how the literature informs your selection of methods for collecting and analyzing data. Do not be afraid to make changes to your proposed methods based on what you have learned thus far. Make sure to address the following items in your methods section: · Research Purpose: Describe the purpose of your research (exploration, description, explanation, and/or evaluation). · Study Variables and Definitions: Identify your main independent and dependent variables. Provide conceptual and operational definitions for each of these variables, ensuring that variable attributes are mutually exclusive and exhaustive. Identify the level of measurement for each variable (nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio). · Validity and Reliability: Discuss potential threats to face validity, content validity, criterion-related validity, and construct validity in your study. Explain how you would design your study to avoid these threats, considering how the operational definitions might impact the validity of your measures. Discuss how you would address threats to reliability. Identify steps you would take to ensure that your data collection and analyses were both accurate (valid) and consistent (reliable). Discuss techniques you would use to evaluate the reliability of your study. · Research Hypothesis: Identify the research hypothesis or hypotheses that you would test were you to conduct the proposed study, making sure you have clearly stated the hypothesized relationship between your main independent and dependent variables. · Data Approach: Describe whether you will take a qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods approach to your research. Explain the rationale for your choice, describing why this approach would most effectively permit you to test your research hypothesis. · Research Method: Explain the primary research method for your proposed study and why it is the most effective approach to study your problem (e.g., experimental, quasi-experimental, correlational, causal comparative, field research, evaluation research, or existing data research). Describe your approach to the time dimension of research. Will you use a cross-sectional or longitudinal design? Will you propose collecting retrospective or prospective data? Explain the rationale for your selections. · Sampling Strategy: Explain how you would identify members of the population from which to select your study sample. Identify the specific type of probability or non-probability sampling you would use, providing rationale for why this is the most appropriate type of sampling for your study with support from the readings. Explain the process you would follow to select subjects using this type of sampling, the projected sample size, and the proportion/percentage of the population that your sample would represent. For example, if there are 100 cases in the population, and you randomly select 30 cases for inclusion in your study, the sample would represent 30% of the population. · Data Collection: How would you collect the data? What data collection tools would you use? Would you use quantitative surveys/questionnaires, qualitative interviews, participant observation, focus groups, pre/post tests, and/or existing data, for example? Discuss any data collection instruments that you would have to develop and include examples of the questions you would ask or data fields you would collect. If proposing to use more than one form of data collection, explain why each form is necessary for your proposed study and how each would address your hypothesis. If you had to actually collect the data for the study, what would you need to do to schedule and coordinate the data collection? Be specific in your explanation. · Data Analysis: Explain how you would prepare your data to analyze it, distinguishing quantitative from qualitative data preparation. Discuss how you would code and analyze the data. For qualitative data, explain how you would theme the data, identifying potential labels and codes. Explain how you would tabulate results from themed qualitative data and highlight noteworthy quotes. Describe the descriptive and/or inferential statistics you would propose using, explaining the associated measures and the variables involved (e.g., mode, median, mean, crosstabs, correlations, regression). Explain how these measures would permit you to effectively test your research hypothesis. · Additional Issues or Resources: What additional steps would you need to take to obtain access to study subjects or data for your research? What additional resources would you need to collect and analyze the data you want? For example, would you need pens, pencils, and paper for survey administration, or might you administer your survey online? If online, how would you do that? If proposing some aspect of field observation, what data collection forms would you need to record observations? Explain your responses. 3. Ethical Research: This unit examined ethical considerations involved in applied research. Obstacles can arise during the research that may pose ethical dilemmas or issues that must be addressed. Reflecting on the information learned from the unit readings, revise the preliminary ethical considerations section that you completed in CJ525 to address the following: · Ethical Considerations: Discuss the ethical issues that would need to be addressed before conducting your proposed study. Such issues include but are not limited to honesty, confidentiality, carefulness, objectivity, and respect for intellectual property, openness, and human subject considerations. Describe how you would ensure the protection of any human subjects and confidentiality of data for your proposed study, including how you would ensure informed consent of all study participants. Attach an example of the consent form you would use for your proposed study. Include the consent form as an attachment to your Unit 5 Assignment and submit it with your proposal to the unit Dropbox. Directions In addition to fulfilling the specifics of the assignment, a successful paper must also meet the following criteria: · Your paper should include a title page and reference page and be in 10- to 12-point font. (Arial, Courier, and Times New Roman are acceptable.) · Viewpoint and purpose should be clearly established and sustained. · Assignment should follow the conventions of Standard English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.). · Writing should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful. · Your work should display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics. · Appropriate citation style should be followed. You should also make sure to: · Include a title page with full name, class name, section number, and date. · Include introductory and concluding paragraphs and demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard English. · Use examples to support your discussion. · List all sources on a separate reference page at the end of your paper and cite them within the body of your paper using APA format and citation style. For more information on APA guidelines, visit Academic Tools. Impact of the release of inmates from the Hillsborough County Jail to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among the prisoners. Varney L. Sackie Purdue University Global CJ598 Applied Research Project Dr. Kristin Early- Instructor May 31, 2021 Introduction The proposed study is aimed my aim was at understanding the impact of the release of inmates from the Hillsborough County Jail to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among the prisoners. The Sheriff of Hillsborough County, Mr Chad Chronister explained the incident which led to the release of 164 inmates who were charged with low-level crimes. The entire nation stood in shock with the massive spread of COVID-19 and called for immediate lockdown. According to Sheriff inmates who were freed, couldn’t afford bail and police department wouldn’t have any answers to their charges (Andrews, J., 2017). Primary Research Questions Primary research question revolves around the impact of releasing 164 inmates. As per the reports and metanalysis the crimes did go, since 15 out of these 154 inmates who were released were re-arrested on new charges. Majority of inmates released were homeless and living in certain facilities that offer the services to homeless. Many are unemployed and totally dependent on others to fulfil their necessary needs. This action perhaps helped the jail system to minimise the susceptibility of the spread in the jail. Problem Statement The proposed study will examine the issue of impact of release of inmates from the jail and how to prevent the penetration of this virus among prisoners by collecting data from primary and secondary research located in public domain as well as conducting the in-depth interviews, to determine if by releasing the inmates actually helped in reducing the spread of the virus a analyse the repercussions on the society in terms of increasing or decree of crime rate. The study is anticipated to begin May, 2020 and be completed by July 2020. research on all the juridical systems encompassing all the jails across the USA analysing in retrospective the actions especially in a time span of 3 to 4 months i.e., from April to June, 2020 since this was the peak time of the spread and would seek relevant data for the study (Crow, M. S., Snyder, J. A., Crichlow, V. J., & Smykla, J. O., 2017). Literature Review According to a research, most of the prison jurisdiction system all over the US has provided information regarding the measures that had been taken for the prisoners in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 across the correction facilities (Fan, M. D., 2019). This study focuses on certain preventive measures that will reduce the risk rate of spreading the virus and study have chosen to educate the prisoners to hand sanitize properly and maintain a social distance so as avoid the spread. As supported by Franco-Paredes et al., it highlights three main initiations— firstly, mass testing within the correction facilities, secondly, providing ample supply of PPEs and thirdly, educating as well as making the prisoners understand the importance of