As a criminal justice professional, being familiar with existing research is key to solving problems and making decisions. It can help you figure out if someone has already answered your questions or arrived at findings that may help you in your decisions. Understanding introductory statistical techniques used in criminal justice will prepare you to review existing research and then apply it to your environment.

• What helped Summarize the selected article?
• What Identifies the study's research hypothesis?
• Why testing this hypothesis is important.
• What Identify the statistical procedures and tests used in the study.
• What Helps Describe at least one strength or weakness of the use of data.
•  How the results of the statistical techniques could be applied to the criminal justice profession
• What are 2 specific examples?