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RESEARCH PAPERS 1. Consumer fraud and immigrant consumers in US 2. Low income young fathers. Description of research papers 1. Huge numbers of immigrants enter US daily. Because of lack of knowledge about their new environment these immigrant are targets of consumer fraud. This research tries to answer the question looks into t his problem in detail. 2. This research looks into the problem of young families that are living in poverty. In many instances fathers stop playing a role in children’s lives. Young fathers are interviewed about the context of their lives, connections with their children and implications these have on their sense of self. The purpose of this was to see whether young fathers are involved with their children or not. Comparison Sample/research technique In the first research much of the data comes from law enforcement agencies. Professionals such as policemen and lawyers are interviewed (experience survey) about their experiences with the immigrants. Focus group and interviews of immigrants are also conducted. Analysis The research findings prove that immigrants are subjected to all kinds of consumer fraud. Usually immigrants are scared of going to the police because of risk of deportation hence this provides many people to take advantage of the immigrants who are illegally residing in US. Legal immigrants are targets of fraud because of their poor knowledge of US law.

For instance research finding concluded that land lords charge extra rent from immigrants and telemarketers give false information to these people especially in their local language such as Spanish. Research concluded that public policy changes would minimize consumer fraud targeted to immigrants. It was also advised that immigrants should also improve their knowledge of English and US law. Short comings Nowhere in article does it say that the sample was random or not. Hence I am assuming that personal judgment and non probability sampling was used. In my opinion this was the wrong method. Also entire sample was taken from a small place in Georgia. Hence the findings can not be generalized to all immigrants. Sample should have been random and should have been taken from different areas in US. Second research paper Sample/research technique In the second research a sample of 25 young men with low incomes was recruited from maternity wards of hospital. The participants were interviewed initially and then a second interview was taken after a year. Interview was tape recorded and later transcribed. The young fathers were paid to give interviews. Analysis The interview concentrated on family background and its affect on fathers ability to provide for their children. The findings concluded that young men do more than just provide for their children. Those fathers that did not play a role in the upbringing of their children mainly wanted to hide their inadequacy i.e men feel inadequate when they are

unable to provide for their family. The purpose of the second interview was to see how many fathers still are playing a role in their children’s lives. Short comings In my opinion this research study has a severe sampling bias in it. The purpose of the second interview was to see how many fathers still are playing a role in their children’s lives. Fathers during the initial interview knew that at the end of the year they would be called for another interview to see whether they played a role in their children’s life. This could have promoted many fathers to take interest in their children’s lives.