Exam 9: Surveys and Interviews

The question "Were you ever incarcerated for drug use or did you go to drug court" is an example of a double-barreled question.

An advantage(s) of conducting in-person interviews is:

In addition to the risk of biasing the survey through researcher-participant interaction, three further potential drawbacks to in-person survey distribution in criminal justice are ______________, ______________, and __________________.

How did the increase in cell phones present challenges for conducting telephone interviews?

What is the biggest drawback to using structured surveys?

Why might cramming as many survey questions into a page or two be problematic?

Why might using computer-assisted survey instruments (CASI) increase responses to survey questions?

Close-ended survey response options must be:

Computer-assisted survey instruments (CASI) can help to provide survey respondents anonymity.

Which type of survey distribution has the potential to be the most dangerous for researchers?

Why do researchers usually avoid having people who already known to each other in focus groups together?

Why might surveys asking about individuals' behavior lack validity?

How can the order in which we place questions on a survey wind up biasing some responses?

What is the biggest drawback to using unstructured surveys?

The _________ survey started in 1976 and measures delinquent behavior.

Discuss measures that researchers can take to test for reliability of self-report data.

Why do hard-to-count populations complicate surveys?

What are things that researchers can do to help increase their survey response rates?

Which type of survey distribution is best if there are questions that require the respondent to look up information?

Which type of survey distribution has the best type of response rate?