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Discussion: Problem Statement, Purpose, and Background

Discussion: Problem Statement, Purpose, and Background

Discussion: Problem Statement, Purpose, and Background

A proposed study with a clearly defined purpose is more likely to benefit from a more focused research problem, and a firmer research plan and design. The purpose statement defines whether the study will be of value:  What information is needed? How likely is this information to influence decisions? How important and timely is the study?  What is at stake (O’Sullivan, Rassel, & Berner, 2008)? Filling in the blanks in a simple sentence in the template below will help you to focus your purpose statement.

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Use this template to complete the Purpose section of your Prospectus:

The purpose of this (quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-design) study is to (understand, describe, develop, discover) the (central focus for the study) for (the unit of analysis, person, processes, groups, site).

Use the Prospectus Guidebook as your guide, and the Historical Alignment Tool (HAT) matrix as a guide for your planned research focus. The purpose of the HAT is to support the creation of your dissertation Prospectus by documenting both the developmental evolution of and the alignment among the problem statement purpose, potential significance, research question, theoretical framework, research design and methodology (“method of inquiry”), data collection and analysis method, and implications for positive social change. Every decision that you make regarding one of the components of your Prospectus should be thoughtful and deliberate in order to ensure that it aligns with the components that both precede and follow it. To do this well often takes a number of iterations as you research, gather, digest, and analyze new information about your research topic.

Use of the HAT will provide iterative documentation of your rationale for making key research design and methodology decisions. The HAT should be updated after each Ph.D. residency and at the end of every quarter, to (a) validate your choices, or (b) explain how new knowledge or thoughts have informed changes in your dissertation research design and methodology.

To prepare for this Discussion, review the Dissertation resources in this week’s Learning Resources. In addition, review the Walden’s Doctoral Capstone Resources located in this Week’s Resources, paying special attention to Learning to Accept Feedback. You have already received feedback during your first few weeks and it is important for you to know you will constantly receive feedback throughout the entire process. This at times can be overwhelming and frustrating. It is important you use these resources and allthe resources on Walden’s Doctoral Capstone Resources. The better you understand what expectations are of you, the more successful you will be in this process and finishing the end goal of your Dissertation.

By Day 3, post your research problem statement, and then attach both the purpose statement and background sections of your Prospectus as a Microsoft Word document in the Discussion thread.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.

Respond by Day 6 to at least of at least two of your colleagues who have not yet had a reply, in any of the following ways:

  • Evaluate your colleagues’ purpose and background sections of their Prospectuses. Challenge or support what they have written, and provide feedback on the alignment of these two sections with the research problem. How can all three sections be focused and aligned more appropriately?
  • Evaluate the extent to which your colleagues have focused their problem, purpose, and background on public policy and administration. Critique and offer suggestions.

 

Required Resources

Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Readings

Public Policy and Administration

  • O’Sullivan, E., Rassel, G. R.,  Berner, M., & Taliaferro, J. D. (2017). Research methods for public administrators (6th ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.
    • Chapter 1, “Beginning a Research Project: The Preliminary Steps” (pp. 1-27)

Dissertation

Writing

Media

Optional

 

Student 1 MG

In this discussion, the researcher was asked to complete a prospectus with a problem statement, purpose and background information.

Prospectus: Mississippi Law Enforcement Approaches to Disabled People

Problem Statement

The researcher examines the question: Are there different approaches to the way law enforcement handles disabled people? The associations between debilitated individuals and law enforcement shift, not too much as by the explicit disability or circumstance but by the learning, a law officer has on the best way to perceive and manage individuals with inabilities. If an officer asks whether there is a disability, and can see a disability to be current, they should offer to make any vital lodgings for that individual and try to locate family, so the situation could turn out better for both the disabled and law enforcement. The police officer should have the ability to distinguish and oblige. The researcher found data that a few officers can address individuals with inabilities they have gotten and are presently utilizing great practices of compassionate training preparing to serve individuals with disabilities better (Scior 2011).

Purpose Statement

The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand and develop the reason why law enforcement killed disabled individuals that could not respond or know how to respond to their demands. The researcher’s data will be collected mostly of qualitative data. It will show the interviews conducted with Law Enforcement and the Disabled Agency. A functional analysis, from the researcher, will show screening tools that will be beneficial in identifying qualitative data. The qualitative data may include reports on disability and law enforcement, how many disabled people were wrongfully abused, how many disabled people law enforcement help without incident, and any equipment law enforcement may use to help shed light on a situation.  A goal is to see what programs are out there for disability people and if they can be improved upon, while restoring faith in law enforcement. The data collected will be analyzed with technologies such as a computer system that stores and shares data. The researcher chose this method because of the unbiased meaning it holds and the reduction of clutter desired. Under the statistical analyzing, the researcher will use a combination of qualitative data, empirical data collection, and quantitative. The data may contain bar graphs and pie charts to make comparisons of approaches law enforcement have with disabled people.

When the researcher completes the interviews, surveys may be organized by using a spreadsheet with questions and results. The researcher will analyze the results in a separate

            Upon completing the analyzing, a statistical analysis may be used. The combined techniques should give an accurate description of the data that is being collected from the surveys. The data given will be used in every question separately so the results can be effectively analyzed.

Background

  1. David Dishneau offers information about encouraging all law officers about individuals with developmental and scholarly handicaps in instructional courses directing by impaired individuals. Proposals need to be made for more noteworthy consideration of mentally and formatively disabled individuals in all parts of society. Police training needs to be mandatory as the board’s first objective.
  2. Mancini, Zedda, and Barbaro (2005) offers information about how the government passes a new enactment intended to give individuals with disabilities access to online administrations in January 2004. Beginning from the new enactment prerequisites, the reason for this examination is to research whether any local health authorities sites are open to clients with various capacities.
  3. Papaiconomou and Nanuet (2015), focuses on information regarding the use of worn body cameras.  They give information about the negligence and worries of body-worn cameras that might be pertinent to an officer’s training. The information suggests that without body cameras, police officers are allowed to “compose their stories how they see it.”
  4. Rose, J. (2017) focuses on individuals with disabilities appropriately fear being killed because of the police. The Ruderman Family Foundation advocates for and progresses the consideration of individuals with handicaps all through our general public.
  5. An online article from EBSCOHOST (2005) explains how law enforcement officers are offered a two-day workshop to train them to react better to occurrences including people with disabilities and how to better handle the situation.

 

 

References

DAVID DISHNEAU – Associated Press. (2014). Md. police to get training about disabled people. US News Online. Associated Press DBA Press Association. Retrieved from https://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nsm&AN=APaef5882370984bb28852c39d456396e7&site=eds-live&scope=site

Mancini, C., Zedda, M., & Barbaro, A. (2005). Health information in Italian public health websites: moving from inaccessibility to accessibility. Health Information And Libraries Journal, 22(4), 276–285. Retrieved from https://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mnh&AN=16293170&site=eds-live&scope=site

Papaiconomou, A., & Nanuet, A. M. (2015). Letters. ABA Journal, 101(8), 6. Retrieved fromhttps://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=tsh&AN=108693907&site=eds-live&scope=site

Rose, J. (2017, September 26). Police should be trained to protect disabled community. UWIRE Text, p. 1. Retrieved fromhttp://link.galegroup.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/apps/doc/A524934363/EAIM?u=minn4020&sid=EAIM&xid=a1a521c4

Scior, K (2011) Public awareness, attitudes and beliefs regarding intellectual disability: A systematic review. Research in Developmental Disabilities 32(6): 2164–2182.

Simon, M. K. (2011d). Writing a purpose statement. In Dissertation and scholarly research: Recipes for success (pp. 1–3). Lexington, KY: Dissertation Success. Retrieved from http://dissertationrecipes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Writing-a-Purpose-Statement.pdf

Teach law enforcement personnel about disability issues. (2012). Disability Compliance for Higher Education, 18(5), 9. Retrieved from https://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eue&AN=83413573&site=eds-live&scope=site

Walden University, Center for Research Quality. (2012). Ph.D. dissertation process and documents.Retrieved from http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/researchcenter/osra/phd

 

 

Student 2 JL

Problem Statement

In recent years, the killing of unarmed black people has been a controversial topic discussion among law enforcement personnel and the public alike. Due to some of the instances in which these events have happened without explanation to why, negative opinions about law enforcement has strengthen within the minority communities. Additionally, a well-documented history of police brutality and unequal treatment of minorities by law enforcement exists in American History. These events in history have exposed minorities’ opinions on law enforcement and has ultimately lead to distrust and dissention among the minority community. Empirical evidence eludes to use of force events by law enforcement indicating that use of force instances correlates to the minority threat theory. To summarize, the minority threat theory is described as an idea in which the dominate group within society views racial or ethnic minority population as a criminal threat. The threat causes the majority group members to disproportionally influence criminal justice policies and laws to control groups that are perceived as threats to social order (Carmichael, J. T., & Kent, S. L., 2015).

With the notion of the minority threat theory and the documented history of police brutality against minorities, are there ways in which the relationship between minorities and law enforcement can be improved within an economically poor community? Many police departments have developed programs such as citizen police academies (CPA) that are designed to educate and provide insight into what law enforcement officers do on a routine basis. The ultimate goal of a CPA is to gain support from those within the community who participate in the CPA which in-turn will influence other members of the community to become educated of the world of policing (Lee, T. L., 2016). Other individuals attest to programs such as community policing and open forums to repair the damaged relationship (Carter, R. A., 1995). Regardless of the effectiveness of the program used to repair the relationship, police departments and the minority community must understand that it will take a collaborative on both sides to repair the relationship.

References:

Carmichael, J. T., & Kent, S. L. (2015). The use of lethal force by canadian police officers: Assessing the influence of female police officers and minority threat explanations on police shootings across large cities. American Journal of Criminal Justice: AJCJ, 40(4), 703-721. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1007/s12103-014-9283-1

Carter, R. A. (1995). Improving minority relations. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, 64(12), 14. Retrieved fromhttps://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/docview/204137520?accountid=14872

Lee, T. L. (2016). Tennessee citizen police academies: Program and participant characteristics. American Journal of Criminal Justice: AJCJ, 41(2), 236-254. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1007/s12103-015-9304-8

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Project

 

Final Project: Outline of Prospectus Draft

So far during Weeks 1-5 of this course, you have been drafting sections of your Prospectus. By now, you should have completed at least a first draft of your title, problem statement, overall purpose, background, and framework (the “theoretical framework”). In this Assignment, you will complete this portion of your Prospectus draft.

Submit an outline of your Prospectus, with all required headings, and include all sections listed in the paragraph above. In other words, your should have everything in place except the significance, research questions, nature of the study, possible types and sources of information or data, and possible analytical strategies (the latter of which is optional). You will cover all these topics in the remaining weeks of the course.

In the coming weeks, you will be submitting sections of your Prospectus for instructor feedback. The entire Prospectus, which constitutes your Final Project, will not be graded until the Week 10 Final Project.

Submit your Assignment by Day 7.

Discussion: Problem Statement, Purpose, and Background

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