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Feedback for Professor on week 1 discussion

Mental health and illness are always a question for individuals in the criminal justice system, regardless of their age. Understanding mental health and how that might impact decision making and criminal behavior are important questions. But you need to look at the alignment of your Research Problem / Purpose / Question. These should all be different ways of saying the same thing. So, if you are talking about mental illness and rehabilitation in one, you should be talking about illness and rehabilitation in all of them. Please work on this alignment for both the quantitative research design and the qualitative research design for Week 2.

Week 1 discussion question

Specific Program of Study and Area of Concentration 

My major and program of study is PhD in Forensic Psychology with a concentration in victimology. My career interest is to work with juveniles that are charged with serious and violent murderers. Working with juveniles that has committed serious and violent crimes has always been a fascination of mine, the fascination stems from my interest in understanding their thought process and thinking, their social background, their environmental background and any mental health diagnosis. 

Social Problem 

The social problem with juvenile murderers is that behavioral problems and mental health diagnosis are often grossly overlooked.  

Quantitative Research Problem 

      The Scholarly community does not know the proper therapeutic therapies to apply to these child murderers instead of putting them in prison.  

Quantitative Research Purpose 

      The purpose of this quantitative research is developing a research study that will be implemented into juvenile prisons, to better rehabilitate these children instead of further damaging them, implementing programs that will better prepare them for future release. 

Quantitative Research Question 

      The quantitative research question is as follows; What is the relationship of a diagnosed mental illness and juveniles that commit serious and violent murders. 

Qualitative Research Problem 

      The scholarly community does not know that behavioral problems and mental illnesses may result in children becoming serious violent murders. The qualitative research problem is does diagnosed mental health diagnoses contribute to juveniles becoming murderers. 

 Qualitative Research Purpose 

     The purpose of this qualitative study is to correlate previous studies of juvenile murderers and mental health illnesses. As a result, strategic rehabilitation programs will help in reintegrated back into society.  

Qualitative Research Question 

      In this qualitative research the question will be posed as, are their early signs of mental health diagnoses that will detect juvenile murders, and can detecting these early signs reduce the number of juvenile murderers? 

Please review the previous questions and revised as needed. Please keep layout as is and the assignment should reflect the exact same layout. Also, answer question below…

Theory or Conceptual Framework: Identify a specific psychological or sociological theory or specific aspects of a conceptual framework that guides the scenario. Briefly describe how the specific theory or conceptual framework guides your research question and will aid in interpretation of results. If this is the same as described for the quantitative scenario, then just indicate “same as quantitative.”

· To help identify a specific theory visit:

· http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/theories.htm

· https://www.utwente.nl/en/bms/communication-theories/

Alignment of scenario elements is important. See the Examples of Aligned and Misaligned Scenarios document, which can be downloaded from the Week 2 Learning Resources area of the classroom.

https://journals-sagepub-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/doi/10.1177/1534484309332617.