Exam 12: Agency Records Content Analysis And Secondary Data

Understanding the details of how agency records are produced is one of the accepted means of controlling reliability and validity problems.

Clinic workers in a major Northwest city have been asked to track the incidence and patterns of STDs in their patients as part of a research project dealing with public health.They ask a number of specific questions upon intake but do not ask about their clients' sexual partners.The only way to examine patterns in the spread of the STDs is to add a question to the intake form about the identity of their sexual partners.The data that was gathered illustrates:

Secondary analysis encompasses which of the following sources of criminal justice data?

Which of the following is important to remember when using agency records?

Content analysis is really a ___________operation that represents the measurement process.

In Widom's research on the relationship between early child abuse and later delinquency or adult criminal behavior which of the following were considered to be either validity or reliability problems?

Topics that lend themselves to the use of content analysis tend to focus upon the links between communication and:

By its very nature,secondary analysis is always unobtrusive.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of secondary data and give an example of each.

Dr.Quinn is interested in studying the amount of overtime worked by police officers.He gains access to agency personnel files.This is an illustration of which type of data?

Which of the following is not a source of reliability and validity problems with agency records?

Using agency records (published statistics,nonpublic agency records and new data collected by agency staff),content analysis and secondary analysis,give an example of an applied research project that would use each of the identified methods.

Since criminal justice record keeping is a social process reflecting the decisions made by criminal justice personnel,a researcher must be careful of the impact this may have on the validity and reliability of the data.

FBI statistics and annual reports from the Federal Bureau of Prisons are examples of:

Which of the following would not be an example of the data coming from the Census Bureau that have criminal justice applications?

Which of the following would not be considered appropriate use for agency records?

Which of the following would not be an appropriate target of content analysis?

Data collected by other researchers is often used to address new research questions.

Which of the following is not an example of nonpublic agency records?

Suggest a content analysis project that could be completed by the class.Discuss the units of analysis and the sampling for this project.Further,discuss the coding that you would use if you were required to complete this project.