You will be required to write a proposal (not carry out a complete research study) of a quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods research study using open-source data on a topic related to intelligence, national security, or criminal justice
Please be sure to review th document attached for the outline that should be followed on how to go about this research proposal of “To what extent does drug legalization in neighboring states impact marijuana use and trafficking in Texas, and how effective are law enforcement efforts in preventing the illegal distribution of marijuana across state lines?”
The paper will be 15 pages in length (not including the title page, abstract, or references), written using 12-point Times New Romanwith 1-inch margins. The paper must be written in the style of the American Psychological Association
Reference should include the one listed in the docuemnt below, include peer- reviewed journal articles and well. Other sources may be used but should not make up majority of sources.
Make sure in your paper that you discuss the timing of data collection and analysis, consistent with the convergent design.
You also need to think about how you will treat seizure data. This is the number of seizures in each city? If so, you can calculate mean seizures across cities.
In your frequency distributions, you will need to think about
how you will present rate data. For example, will you include the number of
arrests across all cities? If so, then you will need to think about how you
will bin the data (e.g., 0-50, 51-100, etc.).