Winston Salem State University Excessive Force on African Americans Discussion

You will use literature search skills to develop a bibliography (works cited) that is due early in the term. This bibliography should contain twenty (20) literature sources that you can identify that are about your chosen research topic. You must divide the bibliography up according to the types of literature identified (scholarly journal articles, trade journal articles, popular literature, books, government documents, etc.) Attach to this bibliography the portion of your research log that describes in detail your literature searching: databases and keywords used, etc. topic.

Although you will not complete an entire literature review for your paper,you will have to include a brief literature review in your paper that summarizes not less than five (5) scholarly journal research articles related to your topic. Each of these articles must have a specific hypothesis being tested. For each of these articles, you must identify the theory, hypotheses, data sources and measures, research design, sample, statistics used, and conclusions).

THE FINAL PAPER SHOULD INCLUDE:

-Introduction

-Literature review

-The question/theory with the theoretical concepts. Include a model of yourtheory and explain the relationships between your concepts.

-Identify your variables in detail (how they will be measured) and explain why they are good proxies for the concepts.

-Identify your null and alternative hypotheses.

-Identify and explain the logic for at least one plausible alternative hypothesis and a relevant control variable.

-Research design and data collection strategy

•Sampling strategy

-Analysis plan.What relationship or comparison will you need to see to reject the null hypothesis?

-Bibliography.

The final paper will be approximately 8 to 15 pages, plus a separate cover page and works cited page, double spaced, 12 point font, and will conform to the APA format for headings, citations, and references.

THE DATA SET THAT HAS TO BE USED IN THE PAPER:
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/36653

I WILL ALSO ATTACH THE WORD DOCUMENT THAT HAS THE INDEPENDENT AND DEPENDENT VARIABLE AND THE HYPOTHESIS !!!!

THIS IS A HUGE GRADE PLEASE DO NOT COPY AND PASTE THE PROFESSOR IS USING TURN IT IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!