Question: My research topic is:

Crime and Mental Illness. What can be learned about how mental illness influences whether or not someone is likely to commit crimes? Are certain mental illnesses more prone to criminal behavior?

M8D1: Evaluating Materials

You will apply Babbie's seven criteria to a website you locate.

1. As the Internet is frequently utilized to gather information about a particular topic, locate one website related to your research topic and apply the seven (7) criteria for evaluating the quality of internet material presented by Babbie to evaluate the quality of the information on that website. To do so, present, in APA format, the reference for the site, followed by the answer to each of the seven criteria.

(7) criteria for evaluating the quality of internet material presented by Babbie

1. Who or what is the author of the website?

2. Is the site advocating a particular point of view?

3. Does the website give accurate and complete references?

4. Are the data up to date?

5. Are the data official?

6. Is it a university research site?

7. Do the data seem consistent with data from other sites?

2. Select a peer-reviewed research journal that you think would be the most appropriate choice for publishing your research project. Why do you think this journal is the most appropriate for your project? If your research project was implemented, describe the process that would result in your report being published in this journal?