What is the relationship between the length of unemployment in months and self-reported crimes from adults aged 21 to 45 in Brisbane, Queensland?
What is the relationship between the length of unemployment in months and self-reported crimes from adults aged 21 to 45 in Brisbane, Queensland?
To be able to faithfully communicate the relationship between these two variables, you will need to look at data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and compare unemployment and crime rates.
Based every aspect of the research on previous empirical articles that have examined aspects of relevance to your research question. This will give you a logically defensible paper.
Make sure you follow the Exemplar and address every point in the section. Make sure you are only looking at empirical studies that are directly relevant to your RQ. The ABS has lots of information as well that you can explore. Keep in mind that this research is focused on Australia and Brisbane, Queensland, specifically. If you are going to look at studies outside of this demographic, make sure that they are particularly important to your research question.
- Worth 45% of final grade
- Marked out of 100
- Length should be a maximum of 2,000 words (excluding references)
This assessment requires students to describe key elements of research design. To complete this assessment, you will discuss:
- Whether the study is quantitative, qualitative or uses a mixed-methods approach
- Whether it is cross-sectional or longitudinal
- Whether there is a control group (e.g. randomly assigned or matched)
- A step-by-step explanation or ‘blueprint’ of how the research will be carried out
- A clear rationale/argument as to why the proposed approaches have been chosen
- The ethical considerations for the project
Students will be assessed on the following key criteria:
- Introduction and conclusion that clearly describes the topic of the assignment and provides a detailed overview/summary of the content of the paper
- Research question and if relevant, hypotheses that are clear, concise and testable
- Identified key elements of research design
- Explained and justified the research design
- Identified data collection methods
- Overall presentation of document, including grammar, spelling, formatting, word limit and APA referencing
An EXEMPLAR will be uploaded along with the marking criteria to help make sense of all the above.