This assignment will be submitted to Turnitin.
The brief must be no less than 85% original thought, analysis, and synthesis.
Do not quote or paraphrase heavily from the readings. No more than 15% of each brief may be cited or quoted. Emphasis will also be placed on the
thoughtfulness.
Instructions:
Read Piza & Sytsma’s “Exploring the defensive actions of drug sellers in open-air markets: A systematic social observation.” Engage in a methodological
discussion with your fellow classmates and post your answers to the following two questions in this graded discussion board:
1. Discuss the benefits and disadvantages of using CCTV as an unobtrusive source of research data.
2. Review the codes the authors developed. From what was included in the article, which code (if any) would you revise and how? Discuss any additional
codes you would have included (based solely on what was included in the article).
{Additional things to consider when reading the article. Do not include in your Discussion Posts: (1) What are the units of analysis for this study? (2) How did
the author’s accounted for interrater reliability.
[The Discussion Boards in methods classes may be different from discussion boards in your non-methods classes. In methods classes the discussion
boards are designed to engage students in methodological discussions of the assigned research article. The designated questions should be answered
methodologically by addressing (depending on the question) what was methodologically strong or weak and methodologically what could have been done
differently to enhance the research. You will be graded based on the methodological quality of your discussion post and responses.]
