Adequately Tackle the Ethical Dilemmas Faced by Forensic Psychologists

Research Question: What Should the Judicial Focus Be to Adequately Tackle the Ethical Dilemmas Faced by Forensic Psychologists, And Are There Enough Well-Trained Psychologists to Meet the Staffing Requirements of The Justice System for The Apt Provision of Valid Assessments?

Assignment 2: LASA: Research Proposal

Submit your final research paper to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned. It should include a cover page, an abstract, an introduction, a literature review, a methodology, and a reference page.

Your final paper should be double-spaced, 8–10 pages in length, and properly edited.

Please use the following outline:

Introduction (2–3 pages)

Introduction (including the statement of the problem)

Purpose of the study

Research question and hypotheses

Theoretical framework

Operational definitions

Literature review (3 pages)

Introduction

Review of research topic (as covered by the literature)

Conclusion

Methodology (3–4 pages)

Introduction

Research design

Participants

Instruments

Procedures

Data analysis

Limitations of the study (i.e., threats to validity)

Ethical issues

Dissemination strategy

Summary

Reference page

All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

Submission Details:

By the due date assigned, save your document as M5_A2_Lastname_Firstname.doc and submit it to the Submissions Area.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.