Researching Crime and Deviance

Researching Crime
and Deviance

Table of Contents
Provide an overview of one of the pieces of research presented during the lecture series (cover
the aims, research method(s) and findings) and discuss the ethical issues encountered.................3
Referring to another piece of research presented in the lecture series describe the research
method(s) employed and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this/these method(s).........4
Follow up study on MPhil Thesis Research....................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

Provide an overview of one of the pieces of research presented during the
lecture series (cover the aims, research method(s) and findings) and discuss
the ethical issues encountered
MPhil thesis research by Alexandra Fota, aim of this study was to investigate impacts of
Covid-19 stigma and related discrimination towards Chinese/Asian communities living abroad.
Along with this aim of research also included advancing knowledge in recent literature related to
social and psychological impacts on the Chinese/Asian population because of racist environment
pandemic has brought. Effects of stigmatization, psychological/physical harm, participants
perception of media discourse and participants perception about enforcement of law response in
providing support and prevention during pandemic are also included in aim of this study.
Methodology for this research includes exploratory research design and this is used for
identifying issues in current practice and making judgment about the practice and also for
developing theory. This benefits in getting better understanding of topic and providing crucial
information about characteristics of situation. Along with this quantitative research has been
considered in this research and it allows for measuring data in systematic and objective manner
(Jain and Tiwari, 2020). Cross-sectional survey and online survey design was included in
methodology, cross-sectional survey offer opportunity to assess frequency of certain behaviour,
attitude and beliefs that people hold. Research was conducted on Facebook including 49 groups.
In terms of participants total participants were of age more than 16 and they identified
themselves as Eastern Asian including from China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, or South
East Asian. Participants were residing in western country during Covid-19 pandemic. Finally, in
this research on the basis of further data screening 74 participants were selected for research.
Data collection took place over five weeks period between August and September 2020. Data
analysis was done through several descriptive statistics including a series of correlation, Chi-
Square analysis, One-Way ANOVA and independent T-Tests (Xu and Hickman, 2020).
This research found that 14.9% participants lost their job because of their Asian physical
appearance. 40.5% participants were verbally insulted by stranger in public, 4.1% physically
assaulted, 50% participants feel degraded, frightened during Coronovirus outbreak.
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