understanding-police-misconduct-essay

Summarize the purpose of the research (understanding police misconduct, obviously, but you will need to also introduce the authors’ arguments for the importance of researching and understanding it).

• Briefly explain Akers’ Social Learning Theory, taking care to include its main points. DO NOT GET BOGGED DOWN IN PREVIOUS AUTHORS’ DEFINITIONS AND VARIATIONS ON THE THEORY- HERE I WANT YOU TO EXPLAIN AKERS’ SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY, AND HOW IT IS USED BY THESE AUTHORS IN THIS STUDY.
• Explain how the authors define misconduct, operationalize it and then and measure it.
• Briefly describe the research design, and express your own opinion on whetehr or not it is effective in measuring and predicting police misconduct.
• Finally- provide an assessment of the study. Do you think that the authors did a good job here? Do you have a better understanding of police misconduct?