Exam 1: Crime Criminal Justice and Scientific Inquiry

We live in a world of two realities known as:

Casual human inquiry is a more rigorous way of investigation than probability and causality.

Scientists must have two types of support before they will agree on something they haven't personally experienced. These types are:

Social science involves the study of:

Identify three errors in human inquiry. Explain each by using an example from the field of criminal justice.

Doing a literature review should be:

A vast number of norms and rules in society create regularity.

A research project concerning law enforcement that produces an alternative view of a practice represents:

When taking conscious and deliberate steps to insure that what you are looking at is what you intended to look at, you avoid:

Discuss the purposes of doing research. Give an example of each by using a hypothetical from the field of criminal justice.

Explain the difference between quantitative and qualitative data. Give an example of each from the field of criminal justice. Can both quantitative and qualitative data be used for each of the four purposes of doing research? Why or why not?

Which of the following is not a subject that can be studied effectively?

Selective observation can be the result of:

Epistemology and  __________  are two scientific approaches to the discovery of reality.

What is the proper work flow for creating a research project?

When we attempt to answer questions about why something happens, the purpose of our research is?

Eyewitness testimony that turns out to be inaccurate is an example of the inaccurate  __________  type of error in personal human inquiry.

When we rely on the "truths" of our culture, we are accepting knowledge derived from the majority, and this is called acceptance of:

Why are websites not reliable literature sources?

Human inquiry attempts to answer what two questions?