Your initial post is worth up to 10 points, and your subsequent reply posts (participation) in the discussion are worth up to 15 points. Participation is defined as: creating a minimum of two (2) substantive replies to fellow students in addition to any of the professor’s postings and actively contributing to the discussion. A substantive reply post should have academic support or include personal insight on the subject, drawing from your reading, research, data and personal experiences. A response such as I agree or good job will not meet the assignment criteria. A substantive response should be a minimum of 8-10 well-structured sentences and posted as a reply to the original assignment posting.
You are to design a sampling strategy for a survey about job stress throughout the criminal justice system, including police officers, defense attorneys, prosecutors, judges, correctional officers, probation officers, and parole officers.
In your initial post:
Select one of the following sampling methods and describe how you would use this particular method to select the individuals to be surveyed and why.
-Simple Random Sampling
-Systematic Random Sampling
-Stratified Random Sampling
-Multistage Cluster Sampling
-Availability Sampling
-Quota Sampling
-Purposive Sampling
-Snowball Sampling
Please use The Practice of Research in Criminology & Criminal Justice 6th Edition by Bachman & Schutt as one of your resources.