Politicized
Criminological Scholarship?
This
program will pay an undergraduate student $10 an hour for 10 hours of work per
week during the Spring 2012 semester. The scholar selected will be working
alongside an adjunct faculty mentor gaining valuable insight into conducting
social scientific research.
Project
Description:
Is the
scholarship of criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) influenced by state
funding? The proposed research seeks to determine the extent to which the
field’s scholarship is shaped by its relation to the state.
Job
Description:
The
primary task is to assist in establishing interrater reliability. A random
sample of 500 articles published in fourteen CCJ peer-reviewed journals over a
sixteen year period 1993-2008 have been collected. Your task will be to measure
several aspects of the content as it appears in half of the articles and fit
them into a database. This will require a "reading" of each of the
articles and an understanding of the definitions (classification scheme) we
will establish at the outset. The primary investigator will be reading and
coding the other half. Throughout the process, we will be meeting in an effort
to establish consistency in defining the two general measures evident in the
content throughout (subject/topic of interest and policy solutions offered).
Minimum
requirements:
Students
selected for the position must have the following…
- Completed between 30 and 60 credit hours at UMCP by Spring 2012
- GPA of a 3.5 or higher
- Be a declared BSOS major
Additional
qualifications:
- This position is ideal for anyone considering doing graduate work
- Basic familiarity with criminology and criminal justice is an advantage
- Capacity to organize and meet deadlines is a must
How
to Apply:
Application
Deadline is Monday, November 14, 2011. Interviews will be conducted with selected
candidates and student(s) will be hired by Tuesday, November 29, 2011.
