Prior to beginning work on this assignment,

• Review Chapter 9 of the course textbook Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches.
• Review the article Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods – Part ILinks to an external site..
• Review the article Intersectional Structural Vulnerability to Abusive Policing Among People Who Inject Drugs: A Mixed Methods Assessment in California's Central ValleyLinks to an external site..
• Review the article Compliments or Complaints: An Evaluation of a Community Oriented Policing PracticeLinks to an external site..
• Review the article Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Data and Findings When Undertaking Randomised Controlled TrialsLinks to an external site..
• Review the interactive Social Justice, Qualitative Methods, and Community Policing.
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After your presentation in Week 3 to lawmakers, town council members, business leaders, and members of the public on quantitative research design, you received a notification from your supervisors that a portion of the funding that the department received will be used to support your work.

However, you and your colleagues determined that more questions need to be answered and that qualitative methods will be necessary to address them.

You and your colleagues want to know the perceptions of the public on a range of issues for law enforcement and community policing, and you have determined that a survey instrument will be necessary. You will need to construct an instrument for interview questions and then submit the instrument to the Institutional Review Board.To get started, you work on a draft for the Institutional Review Board as you address the following:

• Construct a research question and hypothesis for qualitative research in community policing.
  • Support your research question and hypothesis with a theory.
  • Review Creswell and Creswell’s (2023) discussion of research questions for qualitative methods from Chapter 9 of the course textbook.
  • This section may be 1 page.
• Determine the sampling approach in your qualitative research design.
  • Review Chapter 9 of the course textbook.
  • This section may be 1 page.
• Design an interview with at least five qualitative questions to answer your research question.
  • Reflect on how your interview questions will address your research question.
  • This section may be 2 pages.
• Explain your approach to scientific collection of data, inferences, and validity in your design.
  • Review Creswell and Creswell’s (2023) discussion of validity in Chapter 9.
  • Review Creswell and Crewell’s (2023, pp. 172) discussion of inferences.
  • This section may be 1 page.
• Assess how your qualitative research question addresses a social justice issue and an ethics issue.
  • This section may be 1 page.

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