Recidivism Rates of Mentally Ill Offenders in the United States: State and Federal Comparison

Recidivism Rates of Mentally Ill Offenders in the United States: State and Federal Comparison

The next step in developing your project is to make use of seminal research to understand:
– what findings have already been made;
– key methods that have been used for your topic; and
– how your own research will fit/expand/contrast with current published research.

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General Requirements
– Length: 10-15 pages (excluding title page and references).

– Submission and Formatting.
• Typed double-space lines, size 12 font, 1-inch margins , letter-sized pages (8.5 x 11)
• First page with all your full names, assignment title, course number and date
• Subsequent pages with your last names and page number in the header.
• Save as a Microsoft Word (.doc/.docx) or Adobe Acrobat (“.pdf”) file with last
Name-Assignment (e.g. “Arxer-LitReview.docx”).
• Section Headings: Your paper should have each of the four major sections clearly labeled: Introduction, Literature Review (subheadings: Theoretical Review,
Methodological Review), Conclusion, References.

– ASA format & references: Please do not forget to use ASA format throughout the document. A few tips: Refer to each author you cite by their last name and put the year of their publication in parentheses, e.g., “Broad (2008)”. There is no need to include the full name of the article in the text – your references section at the end of the document should have complete information about each source.

Detailed Requirements:
1) Title page. Start your paper with a well-designed cover page that has a
provocative/interesting title for your project, along with your name and the date.

2) Introduction (about 2-3 pages).
Combine the revised versions of your research topic into a concise introduction that will get the reader excited about your project. A good introduction should outline all the key components of the full paper in the first paragraph and then include the following.

Statement of the research problem and your potential contribution. Describe the social problem, why others should care and your opportunity to reasonably improve our understanding of this problem. Think about how will you capture the reader’s attention and establish the context for why your research is so important today?
Be confident here about the original contribution you will make.

Research Questions. Beyond your broad/comprehensive research question, also use some alternative questions. Discuss how these questions frame your research in interesting and provocative ways since their answers should not be obvious.
NOTE: Please try to use actual questions (with a question mark!)

Summary of Literature Review. Give the reader a complete preview of how you will do both a theoretical review and then a methodological review, making sure to share the themes of each. Without reading any further, the reader should know the key themes you observed through your literature review, the main methods that have been used.

TIP: You should re-write your introduction after completing the full paper

3) Review of Research Articles/Books (6-8 pages).
Please do not review each source one at a time. Instead provide a well-organized:
o theoretical review of all your articles by theme; and then a
o methodological review of all your articles by theme
Theoretical Review (4-5 pages). Sort the books/articles you have reviewed into several
themes based on their research goals/topics. For example, if you are doing a project on the impact of media on childhood obesity, some of your articles/books may focus on the influence of the media, some may focus on obesity, while some may focus on the impact on both media and obesity combined.
For each theme, describe the key findings of each article and explain how the results
may be relevant to your research.

Methodological Review (3-4 pages). Now sort the books/articles you have reviewed into themes based on their research methods. For example, some of the articles may have relied on quantitative empirical research (e.g. statistical analysis), others may have been qualitative (unstructured interviews, ethnography etc.). Still others may have been theoretical (conceptual) or provided a meta-analysis of other research (analytic reviews by concept).
For each theme, describe how the authors used the methods to produce their results and how this method could be useful for your research.

4) Conclusion (two to three paragraphs)
Please summarize the key theoretical and methodological points you have learned from your literature review and how
– The theoretical review has helped you refine the focus of your research
– The methodological review has helped you summarize the top methods

5) References. End with a well-formatted bibliography of each article or book you have reviewed in APA (American Psychological Association) format. With a good bibliography, you would only need to mention each author and the year of publication within parentheses when discussing studies in the earlier sections of text. Example: “Additionally, Broad (2008) used participant observation in her stud