Research Process and Terminology
Jensen Tabisola
CJA/334
02/13/16
Jeffrey Ahn

The Criminal Justice system is comprised of many different areas, each with it’s own responsibility, function, and purpose. For example, most criminal justice systems contain five components including law enforcement, courts, prosecution, defense attorneys, and corrections. How efficient these sections are ran is dependent on the individuals put in place to do so. So what does it take for one to be in such a position to assist with the duties of an area? A key and major part of this contributes to training in their perspective area. The type and length of training will vary dependent on the needs of the position. For example, the training of a judge would be a lot longer and more extensive than someone who issues parking citations because of the fact that a judge has the power to not only take someone’s freedom, but potentially sentence a person to death. To figure out the type of training necessary for any and every position within the criminal justice career field requires extensive research. One must figure out what duties are involved in each position and what would qualify a person to be in that position to fulfill those duties. In order for research in criminal justice to be done properly, one must know the research process and the language or terminology involved. Just as in any career, for a person to be successful involves knowledge of that particular career and familiarization of the terminology within that career. The same goes with the criminal justice field, for one to be successful requires knowledge of the research process and terminology. To understand the research process, it is important to become familiar with the steps involved and understand the terminology used with in. The general steps for the research process consists of five steps. The first step is