8-2 practice activity: research questions

CJ 305 Module Eight Practice Activity Guidelines and Rubric

Overview

For your final course in the Criminal Justice program, you will be expected to create and investigate a research question. To help you prepare for that task, each course in the program will include 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), create 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 create a 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:

• Technology platforms accessible to law enforcement
• Pros and cons of technology
• Predictive policing
• The influence technology has on criminal investigations
• Ways advancements in technology will aid criminal investigations in the future
• Legal ramifications of deploying new technology
• Ways advancements in technology inform case law
• Technology’s impact on community relations
• Impact of cybercrime on society
• The current state of cybercrime
• Jurisdictional challenges of cybercrime
• Technological tools and how they can be used by criminal justice professionals and offenders
• Repercussions of criminal justice misuse of technology

Specifically, the following rubric criterion must be addressed:

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

What to Submit

Submit your assignment as a Microsoft Word document.