Composite Measures Are Frequently Used in Criminal Justice Research for All

Multiple Choice

Composite measures are frequently used in criminal justice research for all of the following reasons except:

A) in some cases the researcher is unable to develop single indicators of complex concepts
B) the researcher may desire to use a rather refined ordinal measure of a variable, arranging cases in several ordinal categories from very low to very high on a variable
C) indexes and scales are efficient devices for data analysis
D) the researcher is seeking a method for measuring disorder and composite measures are the only allowable measure