CRIM 316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Review Article, Sex And The Law, Term Paper
8 Oct 2014
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Term paper: find the weakness of the paper, it can be methodology problem, or theoretical problem, findings need to be peer review journal article, different from our tutorial avoid too short paper. Journal of the sexual aggression : does not to be quantitative study, components of the paper: Summary of the main finding of the paper (half a page) Critical: identify limitations of the study, (need to back up your argument with other paper (not lecture notes, doesn"t has to be in same field, at least 4 external sources to explain) A question has not been answered in paper: nov 14 in class, print the article as well. Recidivism studies: recidivism rates vary significantly across studies due to methodological difference. Meta-analysis = 12 studies, n=1. 313 (must only include good studies) 19% for treated offenders vs. 27% for unrtaed: hanson & bussiere (1998) 13% for an average follow-up period between 4-5 years: alexander (1999)
