Crim 166 - ANALYSIS OF A CRIMINOLOGICAL PROBLEM - “Evaluation of a Criminological Study: Drug-Related Crime”

Explain why this is a topic or issue of importance to the discipline of Criminology and describe what is known about the topic. As much as possible, focus your analysis on the (but not limited to) Canadian experience. You may use the article from your first assignment as one of the required resources. Or, you can choose a completely different topic.   The topic of research for this study was “drug related crime”. The purpose of this research study was to find out there was variation in crime that have drugs as their root cause in the recent posts. This research was guided by some research objectives as indicated below:   1. To determine the rate, seriousness and volume of proven offenders (MERIT participants) as compared to drug misusers offenders following the completion of the LSI-R (Level of Service Inventory-Revised) based on a sample size of N?=?2034   2. To determine factors such as MERIT completion status, offence type, demographic and criminal history that has the likelihood of making MERIT participants re-offending based on a sample size of N?=?1839.