Sample The population of interest is a sample of offenders in various (state and federal) prison facilities in the United States. The study will include a sampling pool of both male and females ranging in age 18+. To help with initial involvement, the study will include: a cover letter, a consent form, a pre-demographic and information survey, and a self-addressed stamped envelope. To ensure a response, a reminder and thank you card will be sent to each participant two-weeks after the initial packet was sent. To identify people to include in the interviewing process, a purposive type of sampling will be done with the use of a pre-survey. Purposive sampling is used when a researcher wants access to a particular subset of people, in this case …show more content…
The sample is then selected to include people of interest (sexual abuser-sexually abused) and exclude those who do not suit the purpose. Due to the exploratory nature of this study, a final total of six participants will be randomly selected from to be interviewed. To be selected, inmates must be currently incarcerated for a sexual offense. Given that the goal is still to expand the knowledge on sexual victimization and sexual offending, I wanted to maximize my focus to include a range of ages and gender. Although, there is potential risk for drawing a sample from this particular sampling frame, by clustering potential participants before randomly selecting final participants it could limit variation among …show more content…
To begin, a number of paper surveys will be needed and the envelopes to mail then to inmates. Man power and assistants will be needed in order to properly transcribe all six interviews and code the data from the corresponding surveys. As for the timeline of this proposal, a minimum of a year’s time. Since the proposal is of the exploratory nature, the timeline may change as the ideas and research questions develop and change. Like all studies, there are expected limitations. Utilizing such a small sample group make it impossible for the results to be generalizable to the population as a whole. Due to the nature of the study, exploratory types of research inhibit the ability to make definitive conclusions about the results of any studies (Babbie 2004). A problem that has arisen in studies similar to Nelson’s (2011) is the need for two interviewers to take part in the interviewing process. She noted that when she conducted the interviews alone without an assistant, there was a disruption in the flow of the conversation, and that the duel task of interviewing and filling in the lie grid can be daunting (Nelson
There were a total of 41 surveys completed. Thirty one were completed at the juvenile jail (name of facility) and 9 more completed either at the (name) receiving center or at the NAACP office. The initial 32 participants incarcerated either had a pending court date or were already convicted. The other 9 participants had been
The question for this research survey is the following: are women offenders more likely to be successful if they participate in a gender-response program versus a traditional, non-gender specific program? Women often respond to incarceration and related issues with criminality in a way that is far different from men. With that in mind, the question asked here is one that is in need of answering in order to determine what can be done to help women move forward with their lives and avoid becoming repeat offenders. Without asking the right questions, a survey will not provide true insight (Maxfield & Babbie, 2011). Additionally, the "how" of the issue is often the most important concern when one is conducting a survey that can be used to improve lives in the future (Maxfield & Babbie, 2011). In other words, it is not just about why something needs to be changed, but about how it could be changed in order to provide the highest level of benefit to those who use it (Maxfield & Babbie, 2011).
Of the roughly seven hundred thousand individuals released from prison each year, a large majority are young men with less than a college education (Pager, Western & Sugie, 2009). Of these former
The population for this three-year study are adult male and female felony level offenders. My sample frame are all adult male and female felony level offenders being released from Ohio prisons to transitional living. My sample will be 100 male and female felony level offenders being released from a prison during the periods of January 1st, 2017-July 31st 2017 that complete a survey at every check in totaling 600 offenders in all (300 male and 300 female offenders).
Glaze, L. E., & Kaeble, D. (2016). Correctional Populations in the United States, 2010 (NCJ 236319). Retrieved from https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpus10.pdf
Incarceration is the practice of confining people in prisons as a way of rehabilitation or punishment. The practice plays a great role in the modification of the behavior of the people in the society. Through it, the ethical practices of the society and is the way of ensuring the aspect of peaceful co-existence and respect are upheld. Over the years, the number of people incarcerated in the United States has been on the increase. This trend can be attributed to a wide range of factors such as the race, gender, societal class, and age. Each of these primary factors is vital in influencing the behavior of the person and their likelihood of engaging in criminal activities.
In order to determine whether or not focusing on re-entry services helps reduce overcrowding in prisons a longitudinal outcome evaluation study will be used. The study will be completely voluntary and consent will be required at the beginning of the study. Participants are not required to complete the study; however, a monetary reward will be given for successful completion. Other than the monetary reward, no other incentives will be offered to participants. The focus will be on two prisons, one prison will have already implemented the re-entry services policy and the other will not. Our sample will consist of inmates who have served five to twenty years in prison and will soon be released. The ideal sample would consist of at least 50 inmates from each facility. Various demographic information will be collected such as, age, race, gender, highest level of education, and home city at time of arrest. Other basic information that will be gathered will include, whether or not they had familial support while incarcerated, and whether or not they have familial support upon release.
The purpose of this research is to identify the recidivism rates among recently criminal offenders, the professionals that decide if the offender will commit a crime upon release, and the methods they use to determine if the criminal offender is at risk for recidivism. This research also includes the criminals who are at the highest rate for recidivism. Finally if there are necessary steps to prevent recidivism before and after release.
al., produced an additional meta-analytic review entitled- First Report of the Collaborative Outcome Data Project on the Effectiveness of Psychological Treatment for Sex Offenders. This review also suggests that the recidivism rates of sex offenders who receive treatment were significantly lower than those of untreated offenders. This research, (n = 9,454), across 43 independent studies, examined the efficacy of psychological treatment for sex offenders .It was established that the sexual offence recidivism rate had reduced to approximately 12 % for the treatment groups in comparison to of offenders than the non-treatment groups of 17% . Due to large sample size engaged in the study it would generally be perceived as possessing construct reliability (Sohn, 1995), however, antagonists of this study continue to maintain the observed differences were in fact inconclusive due to inept research design. According to Lösel and Schmucker (2003) most evaluation studies regarding sex offender treatment use quasi-experimental designs. Although randomized trials do exist (e.g. Borduin et al., 1990; Borduin & Schaeffer, 2001; Marques, 1999; Romero & Williams, 1983), they remain rare in this field of research. (P.9 Lösel and Schmucker, 2003). These randomised trials suggest their strength in predicting recidivism is achieved by moving away from the standardised model of comparing incidental treatment groups with sex offenders. These randomised trials take into
The unit of analysis studied in Poole and Regoli’s (1980) experiment consist of 450 male inmates housed in the medium security prison. Of those 450 inmates, a random sample of 225 inmates were drawn from the population. Unfortunately, the sample downsized due to inmates’ refusal to participate and other miscellaneous reasons which resulted in a sample size of 198 inmates but 182 completed the survey. The researchers utilized self-reported surveys as a means of data collection therefore, the research design would be a retrospective study since it required inmates to report each infraction committed in prison within the past month. The survey was administered by matching questionnaires with the official institutional records for each inmate.
State and County QuickFacts. Each year, the U.S. Census Bureau produces estimates of the population for states, counties, cities and other places, as well as for the nation as a whole. They utilize data from a number of sources to estimate the change in the population for each year. I use this document to find the demographic data of Brooklyn.
The author’s designed their research by following the guidelines of previous studies and data collected from Texas and Utah state prisoners by using the sampling frame extracted from the New
A sample of 26 was chosen from the 42 participants who had volunteered for the phone interview. The interview sample appeared to be a good representation of the 228 participants who
Research may seem difficult outsiders because by looking at all the work done to satisfy your research. What people often misunderstand is that research can be simplified if you know exactly what you are looking for. When conducting any form of research, you must be specific with your work. Important aspects of any research project consist of figuring out what your population and sample will be. Some often assume that a researcher’s population and sampling are one in the same but that is incorrect. Knowing the difference between the two can make your research much easier and effective.
The analysis of data regarding the occupational mobility among the heads of sample households indicates that 34.20 percent of the heads) were continuing with their father's occupations. Similarly, 30.8O per cent heads have the same occupations which their grand fathers had (Table 7). A little more than 17 per cent of the heads are carrying on occupations as their mothers were pursuing. It is reflected from the data that occupational mobility among the heads has taken place at a very slow pace. The concept of child labour in the study area is not a new phenomena rather a traditional one as proved by the fact that 71.60 percent of the heads have worked as child labour.