Critical Analysis Template
Week 6 involved the identification of several causes and effects of your identified problem/issue. This Application Assignment requires that you integrate the top four causes and effects into a critical analysis narrative. A critical analysis narrative includes a thorough discussion of each cause (fully describe the source) and its effects (fully describe who is impacted and how). Following the description of all four causes and effects, a critical analysis narrative ends with a final paragraph that briefly summarizes the four causes and your reaction to the relationship between these causes and the development of the problem/issue.
To prepare:
Review Chapter 10 in the course text, Asking the Right Questions.
Review the list of identified causes and effects that you generated in Week 6.
Review the \”Critical Analysis Template\” (located in the Resources area on the left navigation bar), paying particular attention to the components of the critical analysis narrative.
Analyze causes and effects of a problem/issue.
Apply research to critical analysis of problem/issue.
Integrate causes/effects into a critical analysis narrative.
The assignment:
In 2 pages, respond to the following:
7. Identify the four causes and affects you have selected to incorporate into an integrated critical analysis narrative.
8. Write an integrated critical analysis narrative that incorporates the four causes and affects you identified.
9. Explain your reaction to the results of your critical analysis. Could these causes have been prevented? Which one do you think was most important in leading to the problem?
Please review the following steps in critically analyzing your identified problem/issue
Step 1
Review the literature (10-12) sources collected in week 4. They are as follows:
References
Connell, M. A. (2015). 3 Ethical Issues in Forensic Psychology. Learning Forensic Assessment: Research and Practice, 45.
Cunningham, M. D. (2015). 9 Forensic Psychology Evaluations at Capital Sentencing1. Learning Forensic Assessment: Research and Practice, 202.
Fisher, C. B. (2013). Human Rights and Psychologists\’ Involvement in Assessments Related to Death Penalty Cases. Ethics & Behavior, 23(1), 58-61.
McClain, V., Atkins, E., & Perlin, M. L. (2014). Oh, Stop That Cursed Jury: The Role of the Forensic Psychologist in the Mitigation Phase of the Death Penalty Trial. In Handbook of Forensic Sociology and Psychology (pp. 29-45). Springer New York.
Neal, T. M. (2016). Are Forensic Experts Already Biased before Adversarial Legal Parties Hire Them?. PloS one, 11(4), e0154434.
Perlin, M. L. (2016). \’Your Old Road is/Rapidly Agin\’\’: International Human Rights Standards and Their Impact on Forensic Psychologists, the Practice of Forensic Psychology, and the Conditions of Institutionalization of Persons with Mental Disabilities.
Ross, D. F., Marsil, D. F., Metzger, R., Sullivan, J. T., & Henley, A. (2013). Forensic Psychology. In Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions (pp. 869-873). Springer Netherlands.
Step 2
For each source summarize answers to the following questions: When and how did the problem/issue begin? Who does this problem affect? Who is hurt by this problem? Who benefits from this problem?
Using the example of the evacuation plan for New Orleans (from the Capstone powerpoint and sample problem statement templates) here is how I would answer the first question. Source Associated Press news story: It was clear that the evacuation plan was poor or mismanaged on August 28th, the day the evacuation of New Orleans was ordered one day before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. According to the article, the only notification was through the media. The mobilization of the national guard was delayed and when the storm hit there were several thousand people still in New Orleans and the surrounding areas.
Step 3
Take each question separately and summarize it for all the collected sources.
Using the same example:
Six of the 10 sources collected confirm that the evacuation was poorly developed and poorly implemented. While some sources focused on the slowness with which the evacuation of New Orleans was ordered by the city government, other sources focused on how little the federal government did to assist ahead of time in implementing the evacuation of the New Orleans residents prior to Hurricane Katrina reaching New Orleans.
Step 4
Compile the summaries of each question into a narrative (similar to the narrative created for the literature review). Be sure to cite your literature sources throughout the critical analysis. End the critical analysis narrative with a concluding paragraph about your reaction to the critical analysis. Where you surprised at your findings?
