CJ 380 - Criminal Justice Research and Analysis (Q)

4 Credit(s)

This course is designed to help students understand the many ways in which academics study crime and conduct research in the criminal justice field. The major goal of this course is to develop a research proposal on a topic of the student’s choice and to apply the appropriate statistical analyses for the research question. Topics include problem formation, research designs, research ethics, sampling issues, data sources, and data analysis. This course includes lab exercises for application of the material learned.