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Problem Statement & Significance to Social Work

  • Problem Statement-
  • Non-rehabilitated sex offenders pose a greater risk of recidivism
  • Research Question-
  • How do rehabilitation centers contribute to a reduction in the rate of recidivism among convicted sex offenders?
  • Hypothesis-
  • If offenders live in a healthy environment that models positive behavior, then they will start to exhibit positive behavior

Data Collection Plan

How to obtain & store the data:

Significance

  • To get a better understanding of how offenders are rehabilitated
  • Discover how we can make rehabilitation centers better
  • Show that it is worthwhile to fund rehabilitation centers and their programs
  • Send out questionnaire via email to CEO of rehabilitation center
  • Provide researcher contact information for clarification or assistance
  • Follow up with CEO to make sure the questionnaire was received
  • Ask for questionnaire to be returned via email within 30 days
  • If not received within 30 days, follow up with reminder email and/or phone call to CEO
  • Store results in secure, locked computer file and on backup hard-drive

Sampling Plan

Strengths and Weaknesses:

  • Population:
  • Live-in rehabilitation centers
  • Study entire population

Threats to External Validity:

  • Reactivity (CEO)
  • Research bias
  • Multiple Treatment Interference
  • Gain access to a quality sampling frame:

Measurements

  • Contact all 50 states mental health boards and business licensing agencies to obtain names of potential rehabilitation centers
  • Do online search & call rehabilitation center to ensure they meet criteria for inclusion
  • If requirement is met, add to sampling frame

Threats to internal Validity:

  • Instrumentation Errors (observer)

Questionnaire:

  • Specific to this research
  • Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, Ratio
  • Sampling Method:
  • Probability sampling approach

Strengths:

  • Test-Retest Reliability

Literature Review

Variable - Work

Measure - Nominal

Variable: Positive Safe Living Environment

Measure - Ordinal

  • Sample Size:

Effectiveness of community notification

  • Relatively small

Residency restrictions

Rehabilitation after incarceration

Variable - Recidivism Rates

Measure - Ratio

Variable - Length of stay

Measure - Interval

Variable - Treatment

Measure - Nominal

Housing alternatives

Methodology

Quantitative: Based on numbers

  • How many therapy sessions?
  • Does facility assist in obtaining outside employment?
  • Based on the staff's perception, what was the sex offfender's experience like while living in the center?

Explanatory:

Explains what programs and treatments live-in rehabilitation centers provide that lead to a lower likelihood of recidivism

Data Analysis Plan

Hypothesis Testing :

Does a relationship exist between the live-in rehabilitation center and the reduction in the rate of recidivism among the sex offenders that live there?

Research Method

Statistical Test: Independent Samples T-Test:

Methodology

Sampling Plan

  • Comparing the variable of receiving treatment in the center, against an offenders recidivism.
  • Null Hypothesis: There is going to be a decrease in the recidivism rate after treatment
  • Independent Variable - Nominal (Treatment)
  • Dependent Variable - Ratio (Recidivism Rate)

Data Collection Plan

Measurements

Statistical Test: Paired Samples T-Test:

Data Analysis Plan

Strengths and Limitations

  • Using pre-test, post-test comparing the variable of a sex offender's RRASOR score before going into the rehabilitation center and the RRASOR score after going through the treatment.
  • Null Hypothesis: This is going to be a positive increase in the RRASOR score between the pre-test and post-test.
  • Independent Variable - Nominal (Pre-test & Post-test)
  • Dependent Variable - Interval (RRASOR score)

Funding for Live-In Rehabilitation Centers

Amber Barnard

Britt Charron

Judy Lewis

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