Why do we conduct research for Criminal Justice and Security Management? Research is conducted in several different areas of study including menial, unimportant topics such as the celebrity lifestyle. But, that research is consumed by millions of people a day. So, why wouldn 't we do research on Criminal Justice and Security Management. It is a topic that we can apply to our communities, and try to make things better. "In 1968, Congress acted on a recommendation of the President 's Crime Commission of 1967 and established a federal agency, the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (NILECJ), to sponsor criminal justice research. That recommendation was prompted by the Commissions 's discovery that very little systematic information was available for assessing the nation 's problems with crime or the criminal justice system 's efforts to deal with those problems." (Petersilla, 1987) This research was based on three questions:
1. Has the research addressed issues and problems that are central and critical to criminal …show more content…
We may not know how our research may be used, and what impact it may have. For example, Criminal Justice Research can have immense impact on Policy Making. Arthur H. Garrison states, "The criminal justice researcher who understands the decision-making process within state criminal justice policy-making agencies can influence decisions by providing research to meet policy makers ' needs." (Garrison, 2009) However, within the article Garrison quoted Rock who stated, "Politicians act from moral conviction, political need, and personal opportunism. Their response to much scholarly research, and especially to contradictory research...will be to ignore it, or to which that it had never been conducted, and if it had been conducted, never published." (Garrison, 2009) As researchers we need to be able to provide excellent research in order to influence policy in the way that it needs to
1. Has the research addressed issues and problems that are central and critical to criminal …show more content…
We may not know how our research may be used, and what impact it may have. For example, Criminal Justice Research can have immense impact on Policy Making. Arthur H. Garrison states, "The criminal justice researcher who understands the decision-making process within state criminal justice policy-making agencies can influence decisions by providing research to meet policy makers ' needs." (Garrison, 2009) However, within the article Garrison quoted Rock who stated, "Politicians act from moral conviction, political need, and personal opportunism. Their response to much scholarly research, and especially to contradictory research...will be to ignore it, or to which that it had never been conducted, and if it had been conducted, never published." (Garrison, 2009) As researchers we need to be able to provide excellent research in order to influence policy in the way that it needs to