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My Hypothesis For My Individual Project In Unit 2: Corrections programs do they work and help offenders in rehabilitation?

Explain the various means available to you for gathering data on the topic you have chosen. The data for that can be collected is from the executive office for U. S. Attorneys, Pretrial Services, U. S. Sentencing Commission, and Federal Bureau of Prisons.

explain at least three different means of collecting appropriate data and how you would analyze it. (1) Corrections statistical Analysis tool- Parole: This tool will allow you to examine data from the annual parole survey on offenders sentenced and it include parole board decision. (2) Corrections statistical analysis tool- Prisoners: This type of tools can help you examine national and the jurisdictional staffs. (3) Correction statistical analysis tool-Juvenile Justice and Delinquency-Data analysis tools on Juvenile crime and the juvenile justice system at the office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency.

What challenges exist when collecting quantitative data? Some of the challenges are the sampling, bias and reliability. Quantitative research look at the numerical, the objective and also the repeatable data to avoids the subjectivity. 

What challenges exit when collecting qualitative data? This type of problems it investigated in the large amount of detail, and is often quite subjective. The challenges are the respondent topic and may not the subject. The qualitative data collection go beyond a sole conversation, record, or observation. You have sensitive feelings or cultural valves enter the topic under study.

Hypothesis: Is the lack of parental supervision and preparedness a contributing factor in why minors begin to commit crimes at an early age then continue to adulthood, and what percentage of cases involving 17-year-olds are transferred to adult court but should remain in juvenile court?

· Explain the various means available to you for gathering data on the topic you have chosen. There are various ways to collect data for my research. I could speak with members of the juvenile and adult court systems, 17-year-olds themselves, research the laws of my state and psychologist studies.

· Explain at least 3 different means of collecting appropriate data and how you would analyze it. I would speak with officers, juvenile detectives, lawyers, and juvenile probation officers to gather numbers of the amount of cases they handle that receive involving 17-year-olds. I would research the laws in my state in reference to juveniles to understand why some cases remain in the juvenile court and why some are transferred. I would also do a case study on those with a criminal background and see what reasons they give for committing offenses.

· What challenges exist when collecting quantitative data? One of the questions answers I am seeking is “Why” and quantitative data cannot provide me with the reason juveniles commit offenses nor the reasoning for cases to be transferred to adult court.  Quantitative data can give specify the statistical numbers for both but nothing beyond that.  

· What challenges exist when collecting qualitative data? Qualitative data gives states the reasoning behind the problem but these answers can be challenged as the subjects of focus groups would be stating their own opinions which would be different each person. Also if they believe the research has merit they could give inaccurate answers than can affect the results (SkillsYouNeed.com, 2011-2017).