4) Research questions.
The central aims of the intended research are to gather general views of religion and crime by way conducting a literature review. Understandably, this will therefore lead to other related areas such as religiously motivated crimes and what was the thinking and motive behind the criminal acts. A fundamental question is whether religion is a problem and does it cause crime. Works that have been published have offered a variety of views. For instance growing religiosity promotes social harmony alongside reducing crime (Johnson, 2011). Therefore, intensifying religious commitment could give an encouraging perception. Nevertheless, views expressed elsewhere for instance different forms of media have argued controversially. …show more content…
Hence this approach was in favour to the deductive method which reverses the order by beginning with a theory but is effective in terms of validity. Indeed they may be a situation where a variety of other secondary research questions may arise. For instance are external social and political factors having an impact on offending? If these factors can be measured by collecting qualitative data and numerical data, then this will benefit in recognising whether religion and faith are the underlying reasons behind criminal deviancy. In addition to these underlying issues, it was heavily considered to carry out empirical research in attempts to discover answers from the research questions by carrying out a questionnaire. This would have been convenient in finding out where do participants gain their understandings under which sources. Furthermore conducting a focus group would have assisted in assessing any similarity in perceptions, examples would be age, gender and educational background. However due to it being an undergraduate research, a literature review was preferred, as it allowed there to be an evaluation from a professional viewpoint and disregards any …show more content…
This will be the primary way of conducting the research by collecting views across a range of sources covering; websites, books, newspapers, journals, and other forms of media. This will allow there to be a contrast of different perceptions and how these vary across sources. Nevertheless, quantitative data differs from this methodology by increasing the possibility of analysing statistics and the comparison of relationships. It is ultimately defined as the collection of numerical data which provides a view of possible connection between two variables (Bryman, 2012). It is vital to state that government figures could be used in order to demonstrate the impact of religion and faith on triggering hate crime. Numerical data likewise will be utilised to to identify if religion is associated with crime or not and whether this has been represented across sources. The strength of this method allows to test statements made and is an effective tool when research is based on large
The central aims of the intended research are to gather general views of religion and crime by way conducting a literature review. Understandably, this will therefore lead to other related areas such as religiously motivated crimes and what was the thinking and motive behind the criminal acts. A fundamental question is whether religion is a problem and does it cause crime. Works that have been published have offered a variety of views. For instance growing religiosity promotes social harmony alongside reducing crime (Johnson, 2011). Therefore, intensifying religious commitment could give an encouraging perception. Nevertheless, views expressed elsewhere for instance different forms of media have argued controversially. …show more content…
Hence this approach was in favour to the deductive method which reverses the order by beginning with a theory but is effective in terms of validity. Indeed they may be a situation where a variety of other secondary research questions may arise. For instance are external social and political factors having an impact on offending? If these factors can be measured by collecting qualitative data and numerical data, then this will benefit in recognising whether religion and faith are the underlying reasons behind criminal deviancy. In addition to these underlying issues, it was heavily considered to carry out empirical research in attempts to discover answers from the research questions by carrying out a questionnaire. This would have been convenient in finding out where do participants gain their understandings under which sources. Furthermore conducting a focus group would have assisted in assessing any similarity in perceptions, examples would be age, gender and educational background. However due to it being an undergraduate research, a literature review was preferred, as it allowed there to be an evaluation from a professional viewpoint and disregards any …show more content…
This will be the primary way of conducting the research by collecting views across a range of sources covering; websites, books, newspapers, journals, and other forms of media. This will allow there to be a contrast of different perceptions and how these vary across sources. Nevertheless, quantitative data differs from this methodology by increasing the possibility of analysing statistics and the comparison of relationships. It is ultimately defined as the collection of numerical data which provides a view of possible connection between two variables (Bryman, 2012). It is vital to state that government figures could be used in order to demonstrate the impact of religion and faith on triggering hate crime. Numerical data likewise will be utilised to to identify if religion is associated with crime or not and whether this has been represented across sources. The strength of this method allows to test statements made and is an effective tool when research is based on large