The purpose of the assignment is to help you understand the research process (Literature review, data collection, sampling, etc.,) in criminal justice. For each “Article Report” assignment you are required to find at least three peer-reviewed article and write a report about that article. The fourth “article report” assignment, which is due this week, is about “Variables and Analytical Plan” section of research. For this assignment, you need to find THREE quantitative articles and read their Methods and Results sections and then report what was the findings of those studies as well as the main analytical techniques used to analyze the relationship among the variables. Please make sure to clarify dependent, independent, and control variables used in these studies by explaining how changes of the independent variables affected changes of the dependent variable.