Quantitative Methods in Criminology
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Course Introduction
Quantitative Methods in Criminology introduces students to the statistical tools and methodologies used to analyze crime data and inform criminal justice policy. The course covers fundamental concepts such as hypothesis testing, survey design, data collection, descriptive and inferential statistics, and multivariate analysis. Emphasis is placed on applying statistical techniques to real-world criminological research, with students learning to interpret quantitative findings, evaluate the quality of empirical studies, and effectively present data-driven insights. Through practical exercises and projects, students gain hands-on experience working with criminological data and statistical software, preparing them to critically assess and conduct quantitative research within the field.
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Essential Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Methods 1st Edition by Peter B. Kraska
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Chapter 1: Criminal Justice and Criminology Research:
Mapping the Terrain
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Q1) _______________ is the notion that justice practices should be based on research-generated knowledge.
A)applied research
B)evidence-based practice
C)mixed methods research
D)exploratory research
Answer: B
Q2) Quantitative research as using text,language,and visually based data.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Expert witness research is research conducted for the purpose of presenting it to the courts as a part of some legal proceeding.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Qualitative research as using numerically based data,
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Nature of Science and Research
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Q1) _________________ is any study that examines information on many cases at one point in time.
A)cross-sectional research
B)time-series research
C)panel study
D)longitudinal research
Answer: A
Q2) Scientists should accept new ideas or evidence in a carefree,uncritical manner.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Researchers using _____________________ examine features of people or other units at more than one point in time.
A)cross-sectional research
B)time-series research
C)panel study
D)longitudinal research
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations
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Q1) Interpretative social scientists' ultimate purpose thus is to learn about how the world works so they can acquire an in-depth understanding of other people,appreciate the wide diversity of lived human experience,and better acknowledge shared humanity.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) ______________,is a method for combining deductive logic with precise empirical observations in order to discover and confirm a set of probabilistic causal laws that can be used to predict general patterns of human activity.
A)epistemology
B)positivist social science
C)falsification doctrine
D)essentialist
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Ethics and Reviewing the Literature
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Q1) ____________ means that people remain nameless,the subject's identity is protected,and the individual is unknown.
A)monogamy
B)confidentiality
C)anonymity
D)privacy
Q2) What are the essential elements of informed consent?
Q3) ___________ is the role a field researcher adopts where he or she reveals research is being conducted but is vague about its details.
A)shallow cover
B)explicit cover
C)illicit observation
D)covert observation
Q4) When the researcher fully reveals his or her purpose and asks permission it is called ______________.
A)shallow cover
B)explicit cover
C)illicit observation
D)covert observation
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Chapter 5: Quantitative and Qualitative Research Design
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Q1) Explain the four types of triangulation.
Q2) Qualitative researchers use the principle of replication,adhere to standardized methodological procedures,measure with numbers,and then analyze the data with statistics
A)True
B)False
Q3) We can think of hypotheses as guesses about how the social world works;they are stated in a value-neutral form.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Triangulation of method means mixing qualitative and quantitative styles of research and data.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A ______________,simply defined,is a concept that varies.
A)causal hypothesis
B)variable
C)triangulation
D)soft data
Q6) What are the differences between quantitative and qualitative research?
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Chapter 6: Quantitative and Qualitative Measurement and Sampling
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Q1) _______________ refers to how reliable a measure is across time.
A)Stability reliability
B)Representative reliability
C)Equivalence reliability
D)Face validity
Q2) Haphazard sampling is a nonrandom sample in which the researcher first identifies general categories into which cases or people will be selected,and then he or she selects cases to reach a predetermined number of cases in each category.
A)True
B)False
Q3) _________________ is a level of measurement that identifies differences among variable attributes,ranks categories,and measures distance between categories,but there is no true zero.
A)Ordinal-level measurement
B)Ratio-level measurement
C)Nominal-level measurement
D)Interval-level measurement
Q4) List and describe the types of measurement reliability and validity.
Q5) Explain the different types of probability sampling.
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Chapter 7: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Criminal
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Q1) Also called the one-group posttest-only design,the _________________ has only one group,a treatment,and a posttest.Because there is only one group,there is no random assignment.
A)quasi-experimental designs
B)one-group pretest-posttest design
C)one-shot case-study design
D)classical experimental design
Q2) An experimental design in which the dependent variable is measured periodically across many time points,and the treatment occurs in the midst of such measures,often only once is called a ___________________.
A)interrupted time-series design
B)one-group pretest-posttest design
C)one-shot case-study design
D)classical experimental design
Q3) Placebo effect is a reactivity effect named after a famous case in which subjects responded to the fact that they were in an experiment more than to the treatment.
A)True
B)False
Q4) List and describe the major threats to internal validity.
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Chapter 8: Survey and Interview Methods
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Q1) Because people always complete and return questionnaires,the best thing about mail questionnaires is a low response rate.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In general,you should sequence questions to minimize the discomfort and confusion of respondents.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Studies show that survey formats that permit greater respondent anonymity,such as a self-administered questionnaire or Internet-based survey,decrease the likelihood of honest responses over formats that involve interacting with another person,such as in a face-to-face or telephone interview.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Surveys and interview research are merely formalized extensions of how we have gone about generating knowledge our whole lives.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Nonreactive Research: Content Analysis and Existing Documentsstatistics
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Q1) A clear weakness of using existing documents/data is their scarce availability for many crime and justice research topics.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In addition to written rules for coding decisions,a content analysis researcher creates a recording sheet (also called a coding sheet)on which to record information.
A)True
B)False
Q3) __________________ is another name for nonreactive measures that emphasizes how the people being studied are not aware of it because the measures do not intrude
A)archival material
B)nonreactive data
C)unobtrusive measures
D)physical traces
Q4) What are the strengths of unobtrusive research?
Q5) Unobtrusive measures involve collecting what are known as nonreactive data.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Crime and Justice Ethnographic Field Research
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Q1) ____________________ is a systematic process of gathering data through observation,participation,and interviews in order to describe,understand,and even explain a specific natural setting.
A)reflexivity
B)naturalism
C)field site
D)ethnographic field research
Q2) Field researchers maintain an appearance of interest in the field.An experienced researcher appears to be interested in and involved with field events by statements and behaviors (e.g. ,facial expression,going for coffee,organizing a party,etc. )even if he or she is not truly interested.This is because field relations may be disrupted if the researcher appears to be bored or distracted.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are some of the things that fieldworkers do?
Q4) People are aware of explicit knowledge and readily discuss it.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Historical, Qualitative, Document Analysis, Academic Legal,
and Mixed Methods
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Q1) Anachronism is an error whereby a historical researcher locates an event before or after when it actually occurred.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The search for legal authority conducted by legal professionals designed to convince the courts of a particular legal position is referred to as
A)Quantitative research
B)Academic legal research
C)Technical legal research
D)Qualitative document analysis
Q3) Those sources of legal authority that are derived from actual legal statutes,common law,case law,and administrative law are referred to as:
A)Legal authority
B)Stare decisis
C)Primary authority
D)Secondary authority
Q4) What are the advantages and disadvantages of using mixed methods?
Q5) How do is mixed method research conducted?
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Chapter 12: Analysis of Quantitative and Qualitative Data
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Q1) A ______________ is a document (i.e. ,one or more pages)describing the coding procedure and the location of data for variables in a format that computers can use.
A)precoding
B)codebook
C)coding procedure
D)coding
Q2) If the frequency distribution forms a "normal" or bell-shaped curve,the three measures of central tendency equal each other.If the distribution is a deviant distribution (i.e. ,more cases are in the upper or lower scores),then the three will not be equal.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A column or set of columns assigned to a variable is called a data field or just a field.
A)True
B)False
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