Does Juvenile substance use play a big role in the criminal justice system?
1. Identify your independent and dependent variable.
2. Pose a hypothesis.
3. List at least 10 variables that would be included in your research if you were actually going to conduct it. No more than 2 of these should be sociodemographic indicators like race or age. You should include variables that are justified in terms of theory or prior research.
Identify whether the variables will be used as independent or dependent variables.
4. Write a conceptual definition for each variable
5. Develop measurement operations for each variable.