Exam 2: The Process and Problems of Research Related to Crime and Criminology

The motive for inductive research is ______.

What are Mixed Methods?

What is the Rochester Youth Development Study (RYDS)?

According to Mills (1959), curiosity about the social world may emerge from ______.

The Intimate Partner Violence research discussed in your text might more appropriately be described as a research spiral.

A constant is a characteristic or a property that can vary.

Unexpected patterns in the data we collect are called analogous findings.

Deterrence theory presumes that ______.

Content validity is achieved when a measure measures what it is presumed to measure.

How does transparency and peer review fit with scientific research?

It is always easy to determine which variable is the independent variable and which one is the dependent variable.

Deductive research begins with specific data.

The Research Circle is a diagram of the elements of the research process, including theories, hypotheses, data collection, and data analysis.

Because of their doubts about the generalizability of their results, Sherman, Burk, and other researchers began to ______.

What is Intersubjective Agreement?

Inductive reasoning often enters into deductive research when we find ______ patterns, called anomalous or serendipitous findings.

What are three reasons we might commit the everyday error known as "resistance to change"?

Validity is the central goal of all research conducted in criminology.

Cross-population generalizability can also be referred to as external validity.

______ derived from qualitative research will be richer and more finely textured than they often are in quantitative research.