National Sex Offender Public Website – nursing homework essays

Name: Jose Trejo
Central State University
Course: Research Methods (CRJ-2410-7GW)
Professor: Dr. Darrick Brake

Instructions: This assignment is based on Chapter 3 of this textbook:
Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology, 8th Edition
ISBN: 9781337517119
By: Michael G. Maxfield

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Instructions
National Sex Offender Public Website Assignment!

http://www.nsopw.gov

The Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW) is an unprecedented public safety resource that provides the public with access to sex offender data nationwide. NSOPW is a partnership between the U.S. Department of Justice and state, territorial, and tribal governments, working together for the safety of adults and children. This is the work of decades of inter-departmental and intra-departmental cooperation and data exchange.

Assignment: A student researcher wants to utilize this website (http://www.nsopw.gov) as a way of gathering data for research involving sexual offenders. Would there be any ethical violations if the researcher utilized the names of offenders listed on this site? What, if anything, could the student do to use this site as a resource in their research? What would be a limitation of utilizing this site in research if I wanted to study sexual offenders across all 50 states?