Effects of Hate Crimes Against Asian Americans During the Covid-19 Pandemic
For this Assessment, you will design a research proposal for a crime issue affecting your community or region. Though you do not need to carry out the research proposal, it should be an implementable plan. The goal of this exercise is to allow you to look at criminal justice issues from the point of view of a researcher, examining the different facets of an issue that need to be taken into account to conduct research. This competency should expand your awareness of theories, designs, and methods that can be used to conduct criminal justice research, should you continue your studies at the doctoral level or be required to conduct research in your career.
Design a study to examine the effect of crime on your community from both a quantitative and qualitative approach. Your study proposal should be 3–5 pages long and must include the following:
Choose a particular crime that is present in your community. Identify what is not yet known about the relationship between that particular crime and its effect on the community.
Formulate a research question that you could explore in a research study. Your question should be an extension of current research.
Select a population and a sampling technique to use for the research proposal. Describe the target population (including size of the population and other demographic and socioeconomic conditions, if known) and how you plan to sample it or whether you plan to use existing data.
Define your research variables (independent and dependent). Provide conceptual definitions of the key variables you need to measure.
Explain/ how you would measure each variable.
Identify survey instrument (if used): a list of survey questions that you would need to ask (if you plan to conduct a survey). If you choose existing data, be sure to provide evidence of reliability and validity and a description of the sample, concepts, and measures used in the original study. Also identify any limitations of the existing data.
Provide a description of mixed-methods approach taken.
Research Proposal on Effects of Hate Crimes against Asian Americans during the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Problem Statement
Hate crime (HCs) is described as an unlawful felony against an individual or property stirred entirely or partly by a lawbreaker's prejudice against gender, race, gender identity, creed, sexual orientation, and disability (Schweppe, 2021). HCs laws in America starts with the 1964 federal civil right law, which safeguards persons' rights to partake in six federally safeguarded job application and outlaws prejudice on the premise of sex, race, or religion. In 1990, the hate crime statistics law (HCSA) was enacted as a standard description of HCs and acknowledged the need to collect data to ascertain frequency and patterns to address the issue (Tessler et al., 2020). In the Long Beach community in Los Angeles, the COVID-19 epidemic propelled HCs against Asian Americans (AAs). The rise was mainly shown by the hate cases conveyed in the mass media and provoked by the communal and political environment whereby COVID-19 was recurrently termed as a Chinese virus (Gover et al., 2020). HCs weaken forbearance and social inclusion by communicating an outsider condition of the casualty and the wider community. The visceral link with an HC either leads to a need for connection and partaking in social transformation or disengagement from the community as an outcome of fear.
The hate action communicates the symbolic hate message to the Long Beach community. In addition, HCs victims report behavioral transformation as a coping reaction to the attacks and an attempt to prevent likely future victimization (Han et al., 2022). Most Asian Americans indicate that they always feel insecure in public due to their ethnicity because they feel that somebody might physically attack them or their family due to their race (Le et al., 2020). Thus, these views and the prominent incidents of HCs against AAs left this community dreadful of victimization because of their race. This study concentrates on the purported rise in HCs with an exceptional concentration on HCs against AAs in the Long Beach community in Los Angeles. The study aims to examine the drifts of HCs against AAs to evaluate if they demonstrated any transformation during the outbreak, primarily by attributing labels for AAs like the "Chinese Virus". The exploration of HCs trends is intended to offer suggestions on if overall HCs amplified during the pandemic or if the HCs against Asian Americans are the only HCs type statistically linked with this unprecedented incident.
Research Question
* What do Asian Americans consider to be the reasons for amplified violence and racism during the COVID-19 outbreak?
* Do the happenings of HCs against AAs indicate any noteworthy variances from those of HCs against blacks?
Population and Sampling Method
The study will concentrate on the Asian American community targeted by HCs perpetrators during the pandemic. The study will use a purposive sampling method whereby community-based organizations (CBOs) dealing with HCs victims will be recruited to participate in the study. Five CBOs will participate in the study, with a total of thirty participants drawn from these CBOs to partake in the study. The respondents will compris...