Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the study’s research design.

Select
two articles from the list below—ONE FROM THE QUALITATIVE LIST AND ONE
FROM THE QUANTITATIVE LIST and in two pages
double-spaced (per article)
address the following:
Include the full reference for the article using the writing style specific to your program on the title page.
State the main goal(s) of the study
Summarize the research design, and discuss the research method(s) used to answer the research question or assess the hypothesis.
Summarize the results of the study.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the study’s research design.
Provide
a discussion on how the study can be moved forward. For example, how
can the methods be used in your own research
proposal? In what other
research might these methods apply? Include two well phrased research
questions that could be used in follow-on studies to the one reviewed.

QUALITATIVE Article
Martinez-Prather,
Kathy, Joseph M. McKenna, and Scott W. Bowman. 2016. “The
School-to-Prison Pipeline: How Roles of School-Based Law
Enforcement
Officers May Impact Disciplinary Actions.” Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology 4, no. 2 (November): 244-272.
QUANTITATIVE Article
Parker,
Karen F., Richard Stansfield, and Patricia L. McCall. 2016. “Temporal
Changes in Racial Violence, 1980 to 2006: A Latent Trajectory Approach.”
Journal of Criminal Justice 47 (December), 1-11.

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