Article Analysis: Atlanta Project Safe Neighborhoods

Research Article Analysis
Andre’ “AJ” Lozano
CJA/334 Research Methods in Criminal Justice
June 16, 2014
Dennis G. Dougan
Research Article Analysis

Introduction
The research article analysis is on the Atlanta Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) in the state of Georgia. The state of Georgia created a program that is similar to the neighborhood watch the differences in program is to aim their concentration on criminals who continues to cause a threat to their community. The program known as the Atlanta Project Safe Neighborhoods is a strategic collaboration of the local state, and federal laws enforcement and corrections agencies for the purpose of apprehending and identifying the most violent criminals on the streets. (Tammy Meridith, 2013,
And will cover the 9 questions in detail and will be directed towards the Research article Analysis assignment. In this paper the author is asked to give an opinion as to whether the study could have been improved. The author has addressed that question.

Identify the purpose of the research study, problem, and questions.
The Atlanta Project safe Neighborhoods (PSN) main goal is to keep violent criminals off the street and place them in jail and or prison and thus to keep neighborhoods safe. PSN, along with Violent Repeat Offender (VRO) met up on a monthly basis to discuss identified offenders, share agency and specific information and report on investigations, strategies and the apprehension efforts in regards to the law enforcement and prosecutorial tactics. The purpose is selective incapacitation of that small proportion of highly active career criminals with a vast impact on local crime. (Tammy Meridith, 2013, p. 1)
In 2012 the Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN), the U.S. Attorney, Violent Repeat Offender and Applied Research Services Inc. (ARS) developed a data-driven methodology in creating a yearly list which focuses on crimes of interest, accurately reflects their catchment area and identifies offender targets with maximum potential for contributing to local violent
The logical reasoning that repeat, violent offenders are likely to repeat again is deductive logic. The study is predicated on the use of criteria to deduce that a criminal history of an extreme type points to the likelihood that the suspect will violently offend again or break the rules of parole or probation for which they can be re-incarcerated. It is inductive logic to infer that re-arrest of the selected 150 will necessarily have the largest impact on violent crime in the six-county area.
Identify whether the research study is a quantitative or qualitative design. Explain your answer. In this research it is determined that a qualitative researcher’s aim to gather an in-depth understanding of human behavior and the reasons that govern such behavior. The qualitative method investigates the why and how of decision making, not just what, where, when. The Atlanta Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) and the other agencies working together along with data and strategies to apprehend and prosecute violent criminal based on the information that the Georgia Crime Information Center (GCIC) provides to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI). It is a quantitative design from the perspective that the study deals in numbers and infers probability of re-offense. It is qualitative in that it distinguishes between violent crimes by weighting them so that the more aggravated are given greater