To what extent has this topic been studied by previous researchers?

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a. What was the researchers’ objective in conducting this research? In other words,
what did they hope to learn?
b. To what extent has this topic been studied by previous researchers?
c. Why did the researchers feel this was an area of importance that needed to be further
studied?
d. How did the researchers gather their data for this study?
e. What kind of data did the researchers gather for this study? Identify the study sample.
f. What were the outcome variables?
g. What are the researchers’ findings?
h. Did the researchers achieve their research objective(s)? Why or why not?
i. How did these researchers add to the body of knowledge on this subject?
j. What did this study tell you about commonly used sex offender risk assessment tools?
k. Did the findings from this study contradict previous study findings?
l. How would you improve this research and/or conduct additional research to further
expand the body of knowledge on this subject?

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