Do minority groups experience systemic racism in the Canadian Justice System?

CRIMINOLOGY 220 – RANGE OF POTENTIAL METHODS TO CHOOSE FROM FOR TERM RESEARCH PROPOSAL

QUANTITATIVE
1. Survey Methods	a. Structured interviews	– An interview in which all respondents are asked exactly the same questions in the same order with the aid of a formal interview schedule (phone survey).
	b. Questionnaires	– A collection of written questions or response items that the respondent completes without the aid of an interviewer. Don't use plagiarized sources. Get Your Custom Essay on Do minority groups experience systemic racism in the Canadian Justice System? Get an essay WRITTEN FOR YOU, Plagiarism free, and by an EXPERT! Just from $10/Page Order Essay – Questionnaires might be delivered by hand or by mail.
2. Structured Observation		– Observation project in which researchers follow explicitly formulated rules regarding not only what they should look for, but when and where and how they should record what they’ve observed.
QUALITATIVE
1. Naturalistic Observation		– Research in which fieldworkers are immersed in a social setting but retain their position as a complete researcher. – Interaction with “participants” is kept to a minimum, in fact, in most cases the participants are unaware of research being conducted.
2. Interviews	a. Unstructured/ Semi-Structured Interviewing b. In-depth or not c. Face-to-face interviews/focus groups	– An interview in which the researcher : i. has some prepared questions and a number of prompts to maintain “control” of situation but goal is to allow respondents to provide their perspective. (semi-structured) ii. Has prompts to ensure conversation remain on task but allows conversation to flow freely. (unstructured) – Tendency to be open-ended. – Could involve a single or small number of indepth interviews to acquire a lot of detail or be brief and focus on gaining information from a larger group of participants. – Could involve face-to –face interviews (one participant at a time) or focus groups ( involve interviewing a number of participants at one time in a single location)