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Question: Does Staffing Shortages Intensify the Harmful Effects of Overcrowding in U.S. Correctional Facilities
Propose a potential research project. A research proposal offers a description of the design of your study, and includes a review of the relevant theoretical, empirical, and methodological literature in your area. In general, the research proposal will contain the same sections as would be seen in a journal article, published in a peer-reviewed journal. In this project, you will NOT gather data or do any analysis, so this is where the research proposal qualitatively differs from a typical published journal article (no results, no discussion/conclusion). As you will technically
have no results to report, you will be using a different tense than would be the case in a full manuscript (e.g., you will propose to test your hypotheses, instead of actually testing the hypotheses). To reiterate, the proposal simply represents the front end (first three sections) of an empirical manuscript: an introduction, a review of the literature, and a detailed section on the data and methods to be used in the project.
Introduction (2-3 pages). Why should we be interested in this topic? Who cares? What
is the purpose in conducting this research? What is the proposed impact of your study? Get expert-level assignment help in any subject.
What are you attempting to discover and/or explain? Why should professionals/academics in the field of criminology/criminal justice be interested in your topic/research question? In other words, you should make a concerted effort to explain to your audience why your topic/study is important to them - discuss the significance of this research! It is always a good idea in this section to include descriptive, statistical evidence of the problem that you are investigating. To make a long story short, you are trying to elicit the reader's interest in this section - sell your craft!