CRJ 718 Action Research for Crime Analysis/Analysts
The main purpose of this course is to introduce action research, a solution centered science-based approach to quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis. It aims to develop students to perform analytic tasks and to make them skillful crime analysts. The course will provide an overview of research design, methodologies, and statistical techniques to address a crime problem in specific context and situations. It will prepare the students to pose research questions and hypotheses; and assess appropriate methodology in evaluating empirical evidence in analyzing the problem. Further, the course will focus on the type and nature of data pulls, data management and descriptive data analytical techniques for crime analysis and crime prevention. Essentially, this course is centered around action research processes including diagnosis and analysis as prerequisites for taking informed actions and evaluating their impact to advance evidence-based crime reduction.
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