Conceptualize terrorism

To adopt an appropriate research design, what are conditions/situations that should be considered first? (Hartley’s p. 111-126 may provide you with some good information.)

Discussion 3

Please choose 3 questions out of the following 4 questions for discussion.

1. How would you conceptualize terrorism? (Hartley's book pages 93-100 can be helpful) Under certain definitions of terrorism, why might the military operations of some countries be considered as terrorism, in essence making their governments terrorists?
2. Please conceptualize and operationalize “school violence?” Please carefully define this term so that it is not to be confused with those common terms (bully, for example) we use in daily conversations.
3. In Woff and colleagues’ paper (Hartley, P. 100-111), what do they say are some of the problems with comparing victimization rates inside prison versus rates of the general population not in prison? (you may find the article through Lamar online journal. The references for the article is "Wolff, H., Jing, S., & Bachman, R. (2008). Measuring victimization inside prisons: Questioning the question. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 23(10), 1343-1362.")
4. According to Batton and Kadleck’s research (Hartley, p. 111-126), what is the most difficult component of measuring racial profiling? What would you do to deal with the issue if you will be conducting a similar study? (you may find the article through Lamar online journal. The references for the article is "Batton, C., & Kadleck, C. (2004). Theoretical and methodological issues in racial profiling research. Police Quarterly, 7(1), 30-64.")

Discussion 4 Please discuss the following questions.

In Hartley’s Chapter 5, Reading 9: “Public Support for Getting Tough on Corporate Crime,” how was the sample that those researchers studied obtained? Whom did they study? Do you think this is a representative sample? What did the researchers do to make it more representative? (You may find the article through the Lamar library online journal. The reference is "Unnever, J. D., Benson, M. L., & Cullen, F. T. (2008). Public support for getting tough on corporate crime: Racial and Political divides. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 45(2), 163-190.")