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Essay Instructions: Problem Analysis and Decision-Making Technique Paper
a. Prepare a 1,050-1,400-word paper in which you analyze at least three alternative solutions to the problem selected. Remember each alternative must stand on its own. Any combination of alternatives becomes an alternative of its own.
b. Utilizing Decision-Making Tools or Techniques analyze each alternative and select the best one.

The problem I selected from my work is mistakes and fraud in accounting.

Essay Instructions: You have observed a problem or group of problems at the golf course, Cross Creek, where you work. The problems must be technical problems (not political, religious, philisophical or other abstract problems).

Write a problem analysis report in letter or memo format, in which you describe and analyze the problems. Include at least four (4) problems.

The following format should be used:

Abstract (Introduction)
- purpose of the report
- capsule summary of problems covered in report discussion

Body
- each problem listed under its own heading
- background about source of the problems
- well-organized description and analysis of the problems observed
- data that supports your observations
- consequences of the problems
- recommendations or suggestions (where applicable)

Conclusion
- brief restatement of main problems
- degree or urgency required in handling problems
- suggested next step

Essay Instructions: Assignment#1
The Sourcebook for Criminal Justice Statistics is available online and provides summary statistics in many areas of interest to criminal justice researchers. Note data are organized in broad categories. There is no single better compendium of agency data for criminal justice.
Visit this site, find a table or section that interests you, and write one paragraph that describes patterns shown in the table. Then describe the source of data, units of analysis, and what you think about the reliability and validity of the data presented in the table. http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/


Assignment#2
As we saw in this chapter, virtually all data presented in publications like the Sourcebook are summary tabulations from original sources. Such tabulations are extremely useful, and can form the basis for original research and analysis.
A vast array of original data resources are available at the NACJD site maintained by the ICPSR at the University of Michigan. The data collections are extensively documented -- by examining file descriptions you can learn quite a lot about how data were collected.
Thousands of data files are available in two general categories. First, and of most general interest, are data series and one-time studies collected by or for government agencies. This includes the NCVS, NIBRS, and all other series we have described in earlier chapters. Second, data from most research projects sponsored by the National Institute of Justice are also archived. This makes it possible to conduct secondary analysis on data from a large number of published research studies.
The URL below links to a subject-oriented browsing page with 14 subject categories. Select one category of interest and scroll through the holdings.
Select one and write a two-paragraph summary of the study's description.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/archive.html


Assignment# 3
Visit the Bureau of Justice Statistics website. Select and print a graph from the "Key Facts at a Glance" section. Then search other areas of the BJS site to find data used to prepare the graph you have printed. Download the data into a spreadsheet program. Then conduct secondary analysis on those data??"present a different graph, or prepare a graph displaying the data in a different format.
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=kfa


Assignment# 4
Many states and larger cities present very comprehensive data and other information online. We have referred to New York City's site a number of times. The Justice Research and Statistics Association (JRSA) is an organization that supports state statistical analysis centers (SACs). Go to the SAC directory on the JRSA web site. Visit the SAC site for the state where you live or for Connecticut where UNH is, and one other state.
Write a paragraph for each state that describes some of the data available from the SAC. Download and post an example of a report from the SAC.
http://jrsa.org/sac/index.html


Assignment#5
Getting reliable information and data about terrorist events is probably even more challenging than getting data about crime, or traffic violations. Nevertheless, the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) archives reports of terrorist incidents, and offers different ways to view and analyze the data. Click on the "Browse by" wheel and select a region or country of interest. That will lead you to graphs on different dimensions of terrorist attacks.
Find a graph of interest and write a paragraph describing what the data appear to show.
http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/


Assignment# 6
Many state and federal agencies support program evaluation. Some have internal staff evaluators; others work through grants and contracts with outsider researchers. Other organizations compile various resources for program evaluation. One good example is the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Evaluation Working Group. Start by considering the evaluation framework that presents an overview of the approach to evaluation. Then review the listed steps in preparing to do an evaluation. You will find some differences between this approach and what we have described. Evaluation is a framework, not a precise list of steps and tools.
Similar kinds of resources are available from the Center for Program Evaluation and Performance measurement, maintained by the Justice Research and Statistics Association. Information is geared to public agencies and service providers who may be required to include an evaluation component as part or any new program. You will find examples of evaluations as well as links to a variety of useful information on how to design and conduct evaluations.
Using information obtained from one of these two sites, write a paragraph that describes how you would begin to plan an evaluation in some area of interest to you.
http://www.cdc.gov/eval/framework.htm
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/evaluation/index.html



Assignment#7
Crime prevention is much more prominent in the United Kingdom than in the United States. Because crime prevention depends extensively on problem analysis, many tools for planning and evaluation are available from government sites. The Crime Reduction Group in the Home Office has many “toolkits” available for different types of crimes. These are similar to the problem-oriented policing guides we have mentioned earlier. The “Audits and Strategies Toolkit” is especially relevant to this chapter on applied research. It’s intended more for public officials and service providers than for researchers.
Write two paragraphs that compare the Audit and Strategies Toolkit to one of the other evaluation approaches described in this chapter, or in one of the sites mentioned in "Promoting Evaluation," above.
http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/aud00.htm


Assignment# 8
In earlier weeks we have seen many of the resources and tools available from the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing. There is no better example of applied research in the United States. In addition to problem and tool guides, the site offers interesting interactive modules for problem analysis. Work your way through the "street prostitution" module, presented at the site below with the following introduction:
You advise the Mayor on how to solve a problem of street prostitution. People are upset. Save the mayor from a recall. A 60-90 minute exercise.
Then write a couple of paragraphs summarizing how you saved your "boss."
http://popcenter.org/learning.htm


Assignment #9
The National Institute of Justice has supported crime mapping for many years through its Center for Mapping Analysis for Public Safety (MAPS). The site includes links to several publications on mapping applications and techniques. Other resources include lists of cities and states that have online mapping tools. You will learn much about the potential uses of crime mapping by exploring some of these sites. Follow two of the links on this page, and write a paragraph summarizing the contents of each.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/maps/


Assignment# 10
Several web sites now offer general statistics information and access to interactive analysis. The URLs below will take you two examples. Visit one of the two sites and find an example of a univariate and bivariate statistical measure we have not covered in this chapter.
Write a paragraph on each measure that summarizes how it works.
http://www.quantitativeskills.com/sisa/
http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat


Assignment#11
Go to the BJS URL listed below. Scroll down under "All Key Facts" to find graphs in many areas??"trends in crime, arrests, convictions; information about people under correctional supervision. Find a graph of interest to you. After viewing it, download the spreadsheet used to produce the graph. Use a spreadsheet program to alternately compute column and row percentages for sample tables. Then write out statements interpreting the percentages. This kind of practice is readily available through the BJS website, and extremely helpful in learning how to interpret descriptive and bivariate statistics.
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=kfa


Assignment#12
Sometimes, organizing data files and reading them into statistical analysis programs can be especially difficult and time consuming. This is particularly true for large, complex data files like the NCVS or NIBRS. An alternative is the online data analysis system maintained by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. Here you can access and do statistical analysis on a large variety of data files. Select a victim survey and one source using data from police records. Or examine data on capital punishment.
Use the on-line analysis facility to produce simple bivariate tables. With this resource you can analyze NIBRS data from your favorite WiFi-equipped coffee shop.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/das.html














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Class is Business Ethics- Need a Case Analysis Study on the VIOXX DECISIONS--WERE THEY ETHICAL?
Another questions that would need to be answered in the paper is "In order to protect the public more fully what should the FDA do given the VIOXX lessons?

Parts of paper 1) Abstract 2) Introduction ) Major Issues 4) Problem Analysis 5) Interventions 6) Conclusions 7) References