CJA 386 Wk 5 – Summative Assessment: Using Research in Criminal Justice Professions

Now that you’ve gotten a foundation in research, data, and analysis you’ll be better prepared to review criminal justice studies and use relevant data to help you solve problems and make decisions. In this assignment, you’ll demonstrate your knowledge of how research and inferential statistics might be used in criminal justice operations, such as police, courts, and corrections.

Write an 875- to 1,050-word paper in which you do the following:

• Describe your ideal job in criminal justice.
• Explain how you might use published research statistics to help you solve problems and make decisions in your ideal job.
• Provide 2 examples of how you could use published criminal justice research in your ideal job.
• Differentiate between correlation and causation in a way that connects to your ideal job.
• Identify potential applications of correlation and regression within management or research for your chosen criminal justice field.
• Describe how techniques involving association, correlation, and prediction (as in regression) help form policy and operational decisions for more effective criminal justice practices.

Cite a minimum of 2 peer-reviewed sources.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment.