Problem
At this point in our course, we have discussed the major classes of criminal justice research and can start to address the internal validity/ external validity tradeoff between experimental and non-experimental designs. In your opinion which evidence of validity (internal/external) is more important for the research you are doing in your literature review? (Remind the class of your topic and the purpose of your research in coming to this decision).
The topic is the gap in punishment sentencing for people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds.