Criminology Capstone Seminar
Final Exam
Course Introduction
The Criminology Capstone Seminar is designed as a culminating experience for students nearing completion of their criminology program. This course integrates and applies theoretical perspectives, research methodologies, and policy analysis skills developed throughout the major. Students will engage in comprehensive examinations of contemporary issues in criminology, critically evaluate criminal justice policies, and collaborate on research projects or case studies. The seminar emphasizes advanced discussion, scholarly writing, and the development of practical problem-solving strategies, preparing students for professional roles or further academic study in the field of criminology.
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Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology 7th Edition by Michael G. Maxfield
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Chapter 1: Crime Criminal-Justice And-Scientific-Inquiry
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Q1) When we attempt to gather base line data,usually because of new technology or some new law,the purpose of our research is:
A) exploration
B) description
C) explanation
D) application
Answer: A
Q2) Gender and race are both examples of:
A) an attribute
B) a variable
C) an assessment
D) a fallacy
Answer: B
Q3) A great place to start when conducting a literature review is:
A) a scholarly journal
B) a previous research study
C) a library
D) a data software program
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Theory and Criminal Justice Research
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Q1) Which of the following characterizes the statement: "criminal justice and human behavior often can be studied scientifically"?
A) the statement is wishful thinking
B) the statement is correct
C) the statement is inaccurate
D) the statement fails to address problems in studying human behavior
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following cannot be studied scientifically?
A) physical attributes of humans
B) the purpose of life
C) changes in the number of elephants in the wild
D) astronomy
Answer: B
Q3) An axiom is an assumption about reality,while a proposition expresses relationships among
Answer: concepts
Q4) The logic of social scientific inquiry is based in the use of ____________________ to guide the inquiry.
Answer: theory
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Chapter 3: Ethics and Criminal Justice Research
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Q1) A researcher may face legal liability when
A) they observe crime occurring during the course of their study but decide not to report it to the police
B) they become a participant in the criminal activity they are observing
C) they have knowledge that research subjects have committed illegal acts
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Q2) The researcher can lessen the potential for harm when doing research by
A) having sensitivity to the issue and experience
B) never telling the subject about the potential of harm
C) paying no attention to the potential for harm
D) using tricks to make the subject unaware of the harm potential
Answer: A
Q3) Explicitly telling people that their participation is voluntary is
A) a necessary component of informed consent
B) a necessary component of confidentiality
C) a necessary component of anonymity
D) a necessary component to obtain grant funding
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: General Issues In Research Design
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Q1) Scientists assess the truth of statements about cause by considering threats to_____________ .
Q2) Research that aims to measure the recidivism rates for youths participating in a new boot camp program after its first year in operation may use the_________ type of study.
Q3) In his research,Gif examined whether people living in high-crime neighborhoods are more likely to have guns at home for protection than those living in low-crime areas.His unit of analysis was:
A) organizations
B) social artifacts
C) individuals
D) groups
Q4) The well-known Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment,discussed in Chapter 1,provides another example of
A) construct validity problems
B) internal validity problems
C) statistical validity problems
D) replication validity problems
Q5) ___________,units,and time are key elements in planning a research study.
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Chapter 5: Concepts Operationalization And-Measurement
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Q1) An empirical measure that adequately reflects the meaning of the concept under consideration is known as:
A) reliability
B) validity
C) accuracy
D) face validity
Q2) ________________validity refers to particular empirical measures that may or may not accurately reflect the common agreements on concepts.
Q3) When the actual distance that separates the attributes composing some variables does have meaning,the variables are described as:
A) interval
B) nominal
C) ordinal
D) none of the above
Q4) Words are symbols in language that we use to represent mental images are known as__________ .
Q5) ______________is the process by which we specify precisely what we mean when we use a particular term.
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Chapter 6: Measuring-Crime
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Q1) Which term best describes "an individual act of burglary,auto theft,or bank robbery"?
A) victim
B) offense
C) crime
D) incident
Q2) When crimes are selectively reported to police and selectively recorded by police,this falls under which method of reporting crime?
A) UCR
B) Incident based reports
C) NCVS
D) NIBRS
Q3) It is fair to say that the UCR is:
A) a mutually exclusive measure
B) not a truly reliable measure
C) an exhaustive measure
D) all of the above
Q4) ____________surveys are best at measuring crimes that do not have readily identifiable victims and those that are less observed by police.
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Chapter 7: Experimental and Quasi Experimental Designs
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Q1) An interrupted time-series design can be very useful in what type of research?
A) applied research
B) exploratory research
C) descriptive research
D) double-blind research
Q2) ___________refers to the ability to take findings from an experiment and apply them to the real world.
Q3) To assess the impact of child abuse upon later criminality,Dr.Rose chose to select some adults whose names appeared as child abuse victims in local police records and another group of adults who were not victims of abuse.What technique is being employed?
A) cohort design
B) classical experiment
C) double-blind experiment
D) nonequivalent-group design
Q4) What technique can be used to help reduce the threat to experimental mortality?
A) increasing the sample size
B) decreasing the sample size
C) shorten the time between the pretest and the posttest
D) select only subjects who are female
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Chapter 8: Sampling
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Q1) Which of the following statements is not accurate with respect to standard error?
A) standard error is a function of the size of the sample
B) standard error indicates how closely the findings fit the sample
C) standard error tells how sample statistics are dispersed around the population parameter
D) standard error tells us that over one-third of all sample estimates will fall within one standard error above the population parameter
Q2) Under what conditions would it be appropriate to use a snowball sampling technique?
A) when the characteristic of interest to the study is a deviant one and only a small number of people who know one another are required
B) when your questionnaire can be administered in a narrow geographic area
C) when all you need to do is interview persons from a population where the sampling frame is known
D) when the researcher absolutely must have a sample that is representative of the population from which it is drawn
Q3) The primary goal of___________ is homogeneity.
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Chapter 9: Survey Research and Other Ways of Asking Questions
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Q1) Which of the following statements is not true concerning surveys?
A) surveys are high on reliability
B) surveys are low on reliability
C) surveys are high on generalizability
D) surveys are low on validity
Q2) Surveys tend to be strong on reliability and ___________.
Q3) The National Crime Victimization Survey is an example of which type of survey research?
A) targeted victim survey
B) self-report study
C) attitudinal survey
D) survey of beliefs
Q4) When the potential respondent first opens their door,the interviewer must establish?
A) their knowledge
B) their authority
C) rapport
D) the purpose of the interview
Q5) Identify the strengths and weaknesses in general of survey research.
Q6) Subsequent questions in series are called _____________questions.
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Chapter 10: Qualitative-Interviewing
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Q1) Studying a topic such as robbery can best be accomplished through:
A) quantitative techniques
B) archived data
C) content analysis
D) qualitative interviewing
Q2) Grounded theory stems from:
A) quantitative techniques
B) analysis of patterns and themes
C) linear regression
D) diverse populations
Q3) Which of the following is a line of questioning relating to qualitative interviews:
A) tree- and- branch approach
B) mountain and peak approach
C) ocean and sea approach
D) none of these answers are correct
Q4) _________involve interviewing multiple people simultaneously.
Q5) Focus groups are not typically of value in the qualitative interview process.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Field-Research
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Q1) Which of the following is not appropriate subject matter for a field study?
A) juvenile gang behavior following the arrest of one of its leaders
B) police-citizen interactions at a rock concert
C) homeless men's use of shelters
D) measuring the length of jury trials
Q2) Which of the following is an accurate statement concerning the gathering of data in field studies?
A) there is never a legal issue with videotaping people
B) the only way to get all relevant information is to videotape
C) tape recorders and cameras cannot capture all relevant information
D) automated devices, such as traffic-counting devices, are effective for any research question dealing with cars and their drivers
Q3) Which of the following would not be considered an advantage of field research?
A) qualitative field studies yield precise statements about a larger population
B) the research is considered very flexible
C) the researcher has a choice of roles they can assume to fit the individual needs of the research at hand
D) the research is reliable
Q4) ____________is a matter if dependability.
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Chapter 12: Agency Records Content Analysis And Secondary Data
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Q1) It is possible to move from individual to__________ units of analysis but not the reverse.
Q2) The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics is the most comprehensive Bureau of Justice Statistics publication.It includes a multitude of data including all of the following except:
A) characteristics of criminal justice agencies
B) public opinion answers coming from the Gallup Poll
C) complete crime data from all local police departments
D) specific data on states using capital punishment and their execution statistics
Q3) Agency records and statistics published by agencies or governmental entities are most commonly used for which type of studies?
A) explanatory
B) descriptive
C) evaluations
D) understanding the criminal justice system
Q4) Manifest and latent content can be distinguished by the degree of _________required in measurement.
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Chapter 13: Evaluation Research and Problem Analysis
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Q1) Which of the following would a researcher completing an impact assessment be concerned with?
A) understanding how participants are selected
B) measuring the dependent variable
C) measuring the success of the program
D) measuring the independent variable
Q2) Which of the following is not correct with respect to process evaluations?
A) information about program implementation can be linked to outcome measures, even when accompanied by a process evaluation
B) process evaluation aids in interpreting results from impact assessments
C) process evaluations are useful when a researcher is interested in the performance of specific tasks within a program
D) process evaluations assume that tasks within a program are linked to program outcomes
Q3) What is the fundamental first step in conducting evaluation studies?
A) measuring program goals
B) obtaining evaluable statements
C) specifying outcomes
D) clearly specifying program goals
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Chapter 14: Interpreting-Data
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Q1) With respect to lambda,which of the following is not true?
A) lambda represents the reduction in errors as a proportion of the errors that would have been made on the basis of the overall distribution
B) lambda is appropriate for ratio level variables
C) lambda measures the statistical association between two nominal variables
D) lambda is based on the ability to guess values on one of the variables by having knowledge of values on the other variables
Q2) Calculating rates is really pretty simple,what is not so simple in determining rates is deciding the:
A) numerator and denominator
B) arithmetic
C) mean
D) average
Q3) Because extremes in a distribution (a very large or very small number)can impact the mean,it is usually important to examine measures of dispersion about the mean.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The standard deviation is the square root of the_________ .
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