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Topic and Research Plan

Topic:

How students are influenced by policing on college campus.

Research question:

How does police presence on campus make students feel?

Hypothesis/Hypotheses:

Increase of police presence increases stress amongst students around the college campus.

Increase of police presence decreases the violence amongst students around the college campus.

Research Plan

a. Who will be your participants

i. Radford Campus Police

ii. Radford University Students

b. How you will collect data from them

i. Surveying

ii. Interviewing Officers within the campus police dept. and city police dept

c. What kind of data will you collect from them

i. On average how often is police interaction creating stress

ii. Does police presence encourage violence

iii. Feelings about police presence on/ around campus

d. Identify the independent and dependent variables in your study

i. Independent Variable: Police presence

ii. Dependent Variables: Stress levels & violence