Observational Studies

Observational Studies

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Research design......................................................................................................................1
Data collection methods.........................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
In the context of observational study, it can be said that traditional methods are not
effective that much because it cannot give effective response and outcomes regarding adolescent
crimes. So, the main focus of this study is on identifying importance of diversionary programmes
in order to prevent youthful offenders from criminal justice system (Weissofner, Henry and
Scott, 2017). So, in the context of diversionary programmes it can be said that it plays an
important role as it is a form of sentence in which criminal offenders take an active participation
in rehabilitation programs which help defendants in identifying behaviours of offenders which
leads to the original arrest as well as allow offenders to avoid conviction. But there is no valid
proof and evaluation as whether this diversionary programs actually work and decrease
offending or not.
This present study is going to show effectiveness of youth drug and alcohol program
(YDAC) as it helps Australia’s young indigenous in decreasing offending. In Australia,
offending is increasing day by day and it is also stated that many of the offenders are young as
they commit crimes due to some reason which is decreasing environment. So, it is important for
them to reduce crimes rate and protect youngsters against crimes. With the help of impact
evaluation quasi experimental strategy, this problem can be reduced. For gathering informations
young indigenous offenders are being taken as a sample who have taken participation in youth
drug and alcohol program.
MAIN BODY
Research design
Research design plays an important role in making the research on a particular topic
successful. This design help researcher in identifying the main reason of conducting this study,
all questions which can help them out in accomplishing goals and techniques which will be used
for gathering informations. It does not only help researcher in identifying reason and gathering
informations relevant to the topic but also support them in identifying the best way of analysing
data. The main role and function of research design in research is to make researcher sure that
evidence and informations gathered can allow him/her to answer all important questions relevant
to the topic (Zheng and et.al., 2016). Selecting research design depend upon the nature of the
topic and as per the topic of this study, researcher has used quasi-experimental design. This
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