Exam 2: The Process and Problems of Research of Criminological Research

Theoretical constructs refer to parts of a theory that describe what is important to look at to understand, explain, predict, and "do something about" the subject.

In your textbook, which of the following is NOT a suggestion on best practices for searching the research literature?

In a hypothesis predicting the relationship between two variables, the direction of association can be either positive or negative.

There are several steps to critically reviewing previous research. Which of the following is NOT an example of critically reviewing previous research listed in your book?

Imagine you read 30 articles on youth violence and you start to write your literature review. You know that you must discuss each article that you read.

One way to make sure that measurement validity is addressed is by creating clear definitions of what we intend to measure.

It is common practice to assume that results from a small sample of people from one community would be the same results among individuals in a different community.

A positive relationship was found between youth with low self-control and their criminal behavior. Self-control is considered the ______.

A researcher had evidence that unemployed spouse abusers recidivate (i.e., reoffend). So, when he conducted an interview with Joe, an unemployed spouse abuser, he concluded that Joe would most likely recidivate. What type of reasoning did this researcher use to make his conclusion?

A graduate student conducted qualitative interviews with 30 people on their experience of illegal drug use. She learned about a factor related to illegal drug use that had not been considered in previous studies. As such, she developed a theory with this new information and created a quantitative survey to assess her new hypotheses. This is an example of which of the following?