Assignment:
RESEARCH PROPOSAL: METHODOLOGY ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW
The discipline of correction faces many challenges today. Overcrowding, financial constraints, and reentry programming, and rising rates of recidivism are a few of the more pressing issues facing corrections officials and our elected legislatures. Perhaps one of the more significant issues is that recidivism rates have hovered near 60% in recent years; recidivism being defined as offenders who are rearrested within three years of release from prison. At least part of the reason for this and other problems is the that corrections' officials have historically been reluctant to rely more on evidence-based practice to inform policy. The underlying theme for this course is that it is a best practice to rely on evidence-based programming and policy to rehabilitate offenders and prepare them for release back to society.
This may take the form of programs offered inside the prison, on probation, or while being monitored on parole. It may also involve specific policy that influences sentencing and parole decisions. This assignment is important because it helps you to understand the process of identifying relevant problems, researching literature related to the topic, and proposing a research study that can address one of the significant issues in corrections. It is essential that our corrections' officials rely more on evidence-based practice; this assignment prepares students to work in those fields as professionals and leaders who can assess problems and propose solutions. The third part of the research paper assignment requires students to choose and justify a research design methodology for the proposed study. Research design is a critical part of any study; it prescribes the manner by which the topic will be studied, its variables, and research questions and/or hypotheses.
INSTRUCTIONS
This part of the assignment is where you will explain your choice of research design and provide a justification for your choice. Use the literature to describe how and why it is the best way to study your topic. This may be because it has not been studied with that method in the past or because it has not been studied with your chosen set of variables or your research design. Use support from either your textbook as it explains the various types of research, or from other studies that recommended future studies of this type. This is not the only reason you would study something, but it helps to strengthen your proposal.
• This assignment should be 2 to 3 pages, written in APA (current edition)
• Use at least 2 reference sources.
o Acceptable sources are textbooks, peer reviewed journals, and websites from .org and .gov domains.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.