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¶ … featuring a QUANTITATIVE experimental design related criminal justice security management. Attach article ( a hyperlink article) posting. Please answer questions: Overview: Provide an overview study ( -write abstract; words). Confidence in the criminal justice system, by David Indermaur and Lynne Roberts

Indermaur and Roberts (2009) commence by arguing the importance of the judicial system within any country, especially a developed one, where there is ongoing pressure to improve the quality of the criminal justice system. Throughout the past recent years then, various efforts have been made across the countries to reform and modernize the criminal justice system. The two authors as such strive to analyze these efforts and conclude on their effectiveness, based on the analysis of the confidence revealed by the people in the criminal justice system. In this examination, emphasis is placed on the reforms implemented in the UK and the confidence of the people in the criminal justice system in Australia.

The approach to the study is a quantitative once since the assessment integrated facts and figures from the society, rather than opinions and assumptions based on observations. The findings are as such supported by statistically processed data, meaning that the results are unbiased and relevant.

The method employed in the completion of this study was represented by the survey method, which reveals a series of advantages....

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For instance, it allows the researchers to quickly and efficiently collect vast information, from a wide palette of individuals in a selected sample. Then, it produces statistical information which can easily be processed to lead to clear and cut findings.
In the case of the current project, the two researchers utilized the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes, which is a biennial mail-out survey conducted by the Australian Institute of Criminology, and assessing a series of variables. The study was conducted on 8,133 adults throughout all Australia and it revolved around three variables: the confidence of the population in the police, the confidence of the population in courts and the confidence of the population in prisons. The survey was completed in three versions and the response rates were between 39 and 42 per cent. The data had been weighted by education in order to create national estimates and the dataset for the analysis was provided by the Australian National University (Indermaur and Roberts, 2009).

The study findings are integrated in three categories, based on the findings for each of the three assessed variables. In this specific order of ideas:

The confidence of the population in the police is relatively high in terms of crime solving (74 per cent), fairly acting (74 per cent) and to respond quickly when a crime occurs (54 per cent). The confidence of the population in the police's ability to prevent crime…

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Indermaur, D., Roberts, L. (2009). Confidence in the criminal justice system. Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice. November edition.
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