Need a little criminal justice homework help please! I need thinkers please!?

Question

In the scheme of research methods describe why defining a concept precedes operationalization. Please use an example in your response—preferably from CJ or LS.

That's the question.

The teacher defines concepts as:

‘Abstract tags put on reality’

Organizes our reality to discourse.

-Gender

-Juvenile

-Crime Rate

-Recidivism

and defines Operationaliztation as:

-Conversion of a concept to a quantifiable measurable unit.

-Simple as gender: 0=female 1=male.

-Simple as student: freshman = 1 sophomore = 2 etc.

I'm kinda lost. I don't need an example, as I'm sure I can come up with one myself. But do you have any ideas on a way to word this? This is the kind of teacher where simple answers won't suffice, so if anyone has a complex mind and can help it would be very appreciated! Thank you!

Answer 1

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