Overview

For your final course in the Criminal Justice program, you will be expected to investigate a research question. To help you prepare for that task, each course in the program includes an assignment in which you will review various research topics and submit at least one research question to your instructor for feedback. You will record your questions from each course in an ePortfolio so you can easily access them to develop your final research question.

Prompt

Using the topics listed below (or others covered in this course), make one to three research questions and submit them to your instructor. This assignment is graded based on completion, and instructor feedback should help you strengthen your questions for future use.

After you have submitted these questions to your instructor, upload the questions (and the list of potential topics below, if you wish) to your ePortfolio PDF.

To view some sample research questions, refer to this research resource from the Shapiro Library. There is also a helpful page that addresses research question creation and expectations that you may want to explore.

Note: If this is the first time you are submitting a research question to support your work in the final course, you should make folder within your ePortfolio with the title "Research Questions," as you will be adding questions to this folder throughout the program. Follow these ePortfolio instructions PDF on creating a folder within your ePortfolio.

Topics:

• The evolution of victimology
• Interactions between victims of crime and criminal justice professionals
• How people, businesses, and corporations become victims
• Experiences of the victim in the criminal justice system
• How empathy influences interactions between victims of crime and criminal justice professionals
• Appropriate responses to different kinds of victimization
• The process of working with child victims in the criminal justice system
• The process of working with special circumstance victims in the criminal justice system
• How victimization data are collected and applied to address problems in the criminal justice system
• How the media can influence empathy as it pertains to the criminal justice process
• How empathy is applied throughout the restorative justice process in criminal justice

Specifically, the following rubric criterion must be addressed:

• Submit one to three research questions based on a topic covered in this course.