Exam 11: Less Obtrusive Methods

Discuss the potential drawbacks to using criminal justice agency data for a study.

The _____________ includes a collection of over 25,000 datasets in the social and behavioral sciences.

Which method involves researchers searching for manifest and/or latent content?

Non-published criminal justice agency data will likely need to be cleaned before it is ready for data analysis.

What is a collection and summarization of empirical evidence that meets pre-specified inclusion criteria?

According to the Maryland Scientific Methods Scale (SMS), which of the following is the weakest?

How do primary data sources differ from secondary data sources?

_______ is a combination of existing police practices along with crime mapping to help officers be more proactive in preventing crime.

Name one step that we can take to find unpublished research.

What are the advantages to using datasets that were created by other researchers for previous projects?

The result of published research has been found to be different from unpublished research.

What does it mean to "clean" data?

If we are going through fictional crime shows and counting the number of times the police fire their guns, we are searching for ________ content.

Discuss why a researcher might use content analysis for a study.

According to the Maryland Scientific Methods Scale (SMS), which of the following is the strongest?

UCR data may not be appropriate for your study if you are looking to look at crime at the street level.

Researchers were able to ethically re-create Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority Study using which method?

____________________ involve collection and summarization of empirical evidence that meets pre-specified inclusion criteria, whereas a _________________includes that same work but also applies statistical techniques to summarize the research findings.

A ___________ is similar to a meta-analysis but lacks the sophisticated statistical analysis.