Exam 9: Nonreactive Research: Content Analysis and Existing Documentsstatistics

The research highlighted in the chapter on shoplifting emphasized the use of what type of data collection method.

Nonreactive research is the first most common research method used in crime and justice studies.

Any document or artifact which requires collection and conversion into qualitative variables via extensive work is known as rough data.

How did Jeff Ferrell study "Death on the Roadside"?

Unobtrusive research has the advantage that the data collection process does not affect ___________.

A technique for gathering and analyzing the content of _____ is called content analysis.

A technique for gathering and analyzing the content of text is called______.

'Text' for content analysis is limited only to the written text of documents.

When a researcher studies crime and justice phenomena without affecting it, without the subjects knowing they are being studied, we called that _________.

This text suggest that the "dark figure of crime" is more of a myth than a reality.

In a study of baseball players being hit by a pitch, Thomas Timmerman found that from 1990-1997 whites and Hispanics were hit by pitches at a significantly higher rate than were black baseball players.

An example of unobtrusive research is searching garbage cans.

Coding systems identify four characteristics of text content. They are:

A set of instructions or rules used in content analysis to explain how a researcher systematically converted the symbolic content from text into quantitative data refers to which of the following:

In the article "Speed Kills" the researcher was studying ___________.

At the first meeting of the German Sociological Society, in 1910, ______ suggested using content analysis to study newspapers.

In latent coding, a researcher counts the number of words use in a document.

Which of the following statements is true with regard to "missing data" in existing statistics research.

Which of the following is not one of the four characteristics of text content?

Turkey and Mexico rank one and two in incarcerating prisoners.