ABSTRACT

This chapter shows several examples of standard research papers exhibiting a range of writing styles, topics, and research methods. It aims to use different standard methodologies for researching topics ranging from examining themes in political literature, case comparisons, simple analysis, empirical analysis, and cross-disciplinary hypothesis testing. These Political analyses involves more than researching people’s actions related to political events; it also involves finding and evaluating evidence about motives, beliefs, and strategies contributing to the event. Political Criminal justice students may use analysis to examine causes and motives involved in policing and investigating crime. Utilitarianism is a theory where justice is in the form of individual aggregate benefits as it relates to the result and not individual action. Justice is described as being in relation to fairness as “justice is fairness”. Distributive justice is the allocation of justice and how that pertains to society.