Research Methods in Criminal Justice Chapter Summary
CHAPTER SUMMARY AND EVALUATION:
Please summarize entire chapter six of our course text in your own words. Be sure to organize your summary well to make it reader-friendly. For the avoidance of any doubts and to be clear, you must also evaluate the chapter after your summary. This assignment must be submitted in only ONE file! First you summarize the chapter, then you evaluate the chapter and then you discuss your policy implications or suggestions – see below for suggested template.
The evaluation part should contain your views/opinions on the work/chapter you summarized. This evaluation part is also an excellent place for you to cite your sources. Because this evaluation part contains mostly YOUR views, you should cite at least one source to strengthen your views. Cite at least one other source (NOT the work you are evaluating) in this evaluation part. While evaluating, you can comment on all or some of the following as part of your evaluation of the chapter … also bring in your evaluation criteria and comment on them:
1. Do you like the area/topic or issue covered in the chapter (or work)?
2. Why or why not?
3. How about the language used in the work – easy or difficult to understand?
4. Findings – surprise? – agree with findings if any?
5. Length article …. brief article or just right/average length?
6. Usefulness or utility of the chapter especially issues covered
7. Methodology used … logical, scientific, confusing, … etc
8. Conclusions of your evaluation
9. Is the article practically useful – utility and usefulness of the article
10. Type of data used in the article and your views about the data
11. Simple or complex statistical analysis?
12. Policy implications of the finding or suggestions based on the finding – any thoughts?
13. Other comments … etc
14. Please note that you must cite your sources in the “evaluation” part of your work to support your views ….
The minimum deliverable length is 1000 words and you must write the number of words you used at the end of your work. Of course, you can use more words if you need to … and this is often the case depending on how you structure your work. Please do not include the cover page, abstract, and list of references in the minimum deliverable length.
So my suggested subheadings include:
a. Title
b. Introduction
c. Subheadings of your summary … use subheadings to organize your summary
d. Evaluation of the chapter you summarized
e. Conclusions and Policy Implications
ALL PAGES OF CHAPTER 6 ARE INCLUDED IN THE ATTACHMENTS.
