Describe The Research Experiences You Have Had Up To Now..

I am enrolled in the Commonwealth Governor's School. It is a rigorous academic program for highly gifted and motivated students. The program, which spans all four years of high school, is designed to challenge students in the four core subjects. Students in the program are required to take the most academically challenging courses available at their school, including a total of eleven Advanced Placement courses and one Dual Enrollment class. The program also requires its students to create two independent research projects called culminating projects. The goal of these projects is to teach students about how to conduct scholarly research, write literature reviews, create original products, correspond with experts, and present their findings.

Before my undergraduate freshman year, I have been searching for a field that I would be passionate about. In the summer, I would participate in an event that can enhance my skills. Notably, the program called Joaquin-Bustoz Math-Science Honors Program (JBMSHP) increased my love for math and science. The students spend eight hours per day learning a math course. Using the mathematical contents, my teammate and I built up a research topic to work for the eight week of the program. Every day, many students stayed up until 2PM to complete over 75 math problems. If the homework was lower than an 80%, we would go to a night tutoring. The program was intense and nerve-wrecking. In the beginning, I was doubting myself if I could ever continue it until

At the start of the semester we were assigned to conduct our own independent research in a criminal justice field. Majority of the class spent their research in either a prison or a courtroom, but my group and I conducted ours in the Hennepin County Medical Center. As a group, we took on the roles of ethnographers and were able to study the environment of the HCMC and conduct some very informative face-to-face interviews. Through an analysis of the field and methodological analysis, we were able to successfully draw conclusions about the HCMC and relate them to topics learned throughout class.

I have challenged myself all throughout high school with Honors and AP classes, but I have gone beyond the classroom to further challenge myself. For instance, in the genetics-based research program, I was tasked with many scenarios in which I had to use my problem solving and reasoning skills to make the appropriate decisions for many laboratory experiments. Additionally, I had to interpret the results of the experiments in context with what I was attempting to prove through the experiment. Within my high school, I am also part of the National Honors Society through which I help the community’s schools with tutoring sessions. TCNJ’s Honors Program will allow me to continue pushing myself to the peak because of all of its challenging courses and opportunities. All throughout high school I have been challenging my academic capabilities and I wish to continue to do so as I continue to TCNJ.

In criminal justice research is the basis for maintaining an effective system. It helps to discern what methods of correction or deterrence are most impactful, what mannerisms, behaviors, and events drive criminality, and what crimes are most prominent in our society among a slew of other things (Maxfield, Babbie, 2015). Research is detrimental to the propulsion of our society as a whole, and within our criminal justice system, it can be the difference between the procurement of a functioning society and anomie.

Additionally, while I am still in the very early stages of constructing a proposal, I hope to pursue undergraduate research that investigates the

I have learned about research and statistical methods commonly applied by professionals within the criminal justice field and how to integrate these concepts in a program evaluation

The role of research within the criminal justice system is aimed towards reducing criminal activity in a potentially popular crime area. law enforcement agencies do this is through a number of ways. One of them is predictive policing. Predictive policing refers to the use of mathematical, predictive and analytical techniques in law enforcement to identify potential criminal activity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_policing). Predictive policing works with situational awareness and anticipation of human behavior, resulting in the development or strategies to prevent criminal activity.

I researched hate crime there are a lot of problems dealing with hate crimes. Some people get bullied because they are different from everybody else. The data do support what the news story are reporting. They are explaining what a hate crime is and how often hate crimes happens. This research is important to criminal justice because it is effecting a lot of people and there were a lot of increasing of hate crime happening to a lot of people.

The author Ruddell utilized primary research data in his investigation to evaluate the number of gangs and their aggressive behavior in local jails across the United States (Ruddell, 2006). We see that they collected their primary research from a large number of jails from around the nation that supported their findings (Hagan, 2010). The benefit for receiving they’re on primary research is that they were able to evaluate the raw data that allowed them to see for themselves how productive their research was and what areas should be focused on for more evidence collection to understand their research topic further. The limitations of their study are that the questionnaires that they used did not allow for follow up questions for the researchers

I’ll learn how to properly navigate in terms of networking with program directors at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) in terms of sharing my ideas on proposed proposals and becoming a grant reviewer. This will strengthen my networking skills and also provide a mechanism of effective feedback and criticism to ensure I’m a competitive applicant in building my research portfolio. While building my undergraduate research program, I envision building my STEM outreach program for K-12 students. My goal is for my undergraduate students and I to develop STEM outreach curricula that is related to our research for a science club afterschool

As a research intern, I learned many new things through working on different projects. One of my favorite research projects was investigating the effects of surgeon mental skills training on laparoscopic surgery performance. On this project, I was exposed to various aspects of the research process.

Research informs the policy making process by revealing patterns and themes, such as financial costs and crime severity, that previously may have remained unknown. As evidenced in Tierney's "Prison populations can shrink when police crowd streets" (2013, para. 13), the introduction of a computerized system in the New York police department to track crimes led to more vigilant enforcement that ultimately led to a decrease in the overall prison population and saved the city $1.5 billion annually in costs related to law enforcement and incarceration. The computerized system, which was designed to better track violent crime trends, provided qualitative data that could be applied throughout the city to instill a more efficient police force. While arrests for misdemeanors increased from the new policy, violent crimes decreased, ultimately lowering the prison population.

My research will enhance the relationship between academia and public safety organizations encouraging evidenced based policing practices.

In all honesty, it was not until last week when a stark white envelope was delivered to my house with my name printed in the top left corner that I would have considered myself to be an honors student. Prior to this moment, I had believed I was merely doing what was expected of me. Report cards littered with A’s and B’s kept mom and dad happy. I participated in clubs that brought joy to my life, introduced me to the people who are now some of my best friends, and allowed me to discover a passion for performing. I worked two jobs to help put food on the table during some rough times which taught me to tackle problems head on and allowed me to give back to my family. I’ve been fortunate for the opportunities I’ve had throughout my high school career; I value deeply what I have learned and the growth I’ve experienced, but I had never taken a moment to examine the true weight of what I was doing. My white envelope moment changed the way I thought. Throughout this past week, I have reflected on the qualities that separate me from any ordinary student and have determined that it is my grit and resilience that have catapulted me on to the path of the SNHU honors program.