**Title: Investigating Human Trafficking in Your County****Introduction:**As a county commissioner, you have a vital role in safeguarding your community from crime and acting as an ambassador for its citizens. During a recent meeting with the mayor and your sheriff’s department and deputies, it was reported that there has been an increase in human trafficking reports and arrests following the inauguration of a new interstate approximately six months ago.**Objective:**Determine whether the increase in human trafficking is occurring among local residents, or if it arises from individuals traveling on the interstate and being apprehended while stopping in your county.**Research Focus:**- **What is your research question?** - **Why do you think this is the research question being asked?****Note:** This task requires careful analysis of crime data, collaboration with law enforcement, and strategic planning to address any findings effectively.

Social science research is based on a hypothesis, where a researcher frames a hypothesis based on an independent or dependent variable, and then accordingly collects a review of the literature to support or go against the proposed hypotheses. Along with the research hypothesis, the researcher frames several objectives of the study, and these objectives are supported with certain research questions, which help the researcher to be more clear and focused in their study. Hence research questions are important to bring out the motive and gaps which the researcher is looking for in their research study. The research question for this above-stated situation can be: Are the residents in my country engaging in any sort of illegal acts like drug trafficking, human trafficking, etc? If Yes then why? What are the causes which are pushing people to take resort to illegal means of earning for a living in society? What is the major occupation or mode of earning for the residents in my country? What are the views of the residents in my country towards human trafficking? These Reserch questions are being asked to find out the purpose which the study is proposed to find out, like whether the residents themselves engaged in human trafficking or is it people of interstate who are engaged in these crimes. to get a clear and focused answer to these questions these research questions will need to be asked, not in a direct manner, as human trafficking is a sensitive issue, but subtly they will be asked to the residents of the country.