Exam 16: What Research Tells Us and a Look to the Future

The NIJ's Locally Initiated Research Partnerships in Policing usually involves partnerships between the local police department or other law enforcement agency and:

According to the text, when reading case studies, one can have reasonable confidence about the kinds of steps taken by the police in a neighborhood to provide accessibility, improve responsiveness, and increase communication with residents.

According to the text, what do most experts believe will have the most profound impact on the collective ability of the federal, state, and local governments to protect the United States?

According to the text, surveys can be conducted:

Experiments in criminal justice raise both ethical and privacy issues.

According to the text, which of these community policing tenets are of increased importance when facing budget cuts that reduce the number of officers on the street?

Which research foundation has created a center for survey research?

______________ means "similar in structural characteristics" and results in a one-size-fits-all approach to community policing.

______________ isomorphism occurs when organizations adopt something as a result of pressure either from the state or other organizations.

Illustrate and explain the Action Research Model, labeling each step.

______________ isomorphism occurs when an organization copies or imitates another.

According to the text, even the most well-intentioned witnesses can identify the wrong -person or fail to identify the perpetrator of a crime.

Discuss the Schuster's research on eyewitness testimony and how DNA testing has -influenced convictions.

______________ isomorphism results from professionalism, with influences coming from such organizations as the Police Executive Research Forum.

Assistance in experiments in criminal justice is available through the NIJ's Locally Initiated Research Partnerships in Policing.

As stated by the authors, most experts believe that technological innovation will have the most profound impact on the collective ability of the federal, state and local governments to protect the United States.

According to the text, to validate an evaluation conducted by survey, ______________ of the distributed surveys must be returned.

According to the text, all of the following are ways a law enforcement agency can use data from research except:

At the heart of experimental design are the experimental and control conditions, which are:

____________ isomorphism occurs when an organization copies or imitates another.