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...... In conducting a case study, it is always best to begin the process by arming ones self with a far-reaching understanding and vocabulary of the subject. For example, if one is studying resource officers within the context of a suburban school, it may first be wise to become more familiar with trends of school violence, conditions relating to the resource officer occupation and an overall conception of the culture within the school(s) selected for study. A grounded research approach would dispatch the researchers to conduct extensive reading on the topic, foraging through past research experiments, broadly based texts on the subject and even current practices, policies and ideas within the context in question
This data-gathering method should help to orient the researcher for subsequent gathering through one-on-one interaction or interview as would be most useful in this case study. The case study method naturally disposes us to select a small population within the larger subject as a representative sample of overall patterns in the resource officer occupation. Thus, we would be well served to select a set of suburban schools which are culturally, ethnically and socio-economically similar. In such a setting, we may be able to make observations regarding

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