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Qualitative Methods MCQ

Is transnational research research that explores how cultures and nations deal with crime or other issues that transcend their borders?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as research that accounts for the related series of events that unfold over time.

All of these

Institutional review board (IRB)

Empirical generalizations

Temporal research

Answer

Correct Answer: Temporal research

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_____ is defined as analysis of data collected by someone other than the researcher or the researcher’s assistant.

Positive relationship

Secondary data analysis

All of these

Surveys

Answer

Correct Answer: Secondary data analysis

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_____ is data collected through intensive interviews with participants in past events or times.

Crime mapping

All of these

Oral history

Intensive interviewing

Answer

Correct Answer: Oral history

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Is method of agreement a method proposed by John Stuart Mill for establishing a causal relation, in which the values of cases that agree on an outcome variable also agree on the value of the variable hypothesized to have a causal effect, whereas they differ in terms of other variables?

False

True

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is a data repository located at the University of Michigan that stores thousands of datasets collected by local and federal governments, nonprofit agencies, and other independent researchers.

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

Illogical reasoning

Crime mapping

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

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Is historical process research research that examines a series of events that happened over a longer period of time?

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as this federal law stipulates that all persons have a right to access all federal agency records unless the records are specifically exempted.

None of these

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

Random number table

Deductive reasoning

Answer

Correct Answer: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

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_____ is defined as an approach in which there is a relationship between an independent and a dependent variable; the independent variable has an effect on the dependent variable in every case under consideration.

Matched-groups design

None of these

Postpositivism

Deterministic causal approach

Answer

Correct Answer: Deterministic causal approach

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_____ is research that seeks to understand the structure, nature, or scope of a nation’s or nations’ criminal justice systems or rates of crime.

Crime mapping

Index

All of these

Descriptive comparative research

Answer

Correct Answer: Descriptive comparative research

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Is comparative research research comparing data from more than one time period and/or more than one nation?

False

True

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a research method for systematically analyzing and making inferences from text.

Illogical reasoning

None of these

Content analysis

Crime mapping

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Correct Answer: Content analysis

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_____ is defined as research that focuses attention on the nation or other unit as a whole.

All of these

Quasi-experimental design

Case-oriented research

Crime mapping

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Correct Answer: Case-oriented research

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_____ is research that seeks to understand how national systems work and the factors related to their operations.

Netnography

All of these

Analytic comparative research

Target population

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Correct Answer: Analytic comparative research

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Researcher safety is a common issue in quantitative research.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Field researchers often use fictitious names for the subjects in their study in their published reports in an effort to protect the confidentiality of the subject’s responses.

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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Voluntary participation and subject well-being are examples of ethical issues that can arise in qualitative research.

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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The information (data) obtained from focus groups tends to be highly structured.

True

False

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Correct Answer: False

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It is not possible to combine participant observation and intensive interviewing methods in a research project.

True

False

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Correct Answer: False

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A saturation point refers to the point at which subject selection is ended as it is unlikely that any new interviews will offer any new information.

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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Systematic observation is a strategy that qualitative researchers can use in order to increase the reliability of observational data.

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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Field notes are brief notes that are jotted down quickly during the observation period.

True

False

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Correct Answer: False

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Theoretical sampling is a sampling method recommended for field researchers.

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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Laud Humphrey’s role in his qualitative research was that of a complete observer.

True

False

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Correct Answer: False

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A participant observer represents a continuum of roles, ranging from complete observer to covert participant.

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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An ethnography is a study of a culture or cultures that a group of people share.

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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Qualitative researchers typically begin their research with specific preformulated hypotheses.

True

False

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Correct Answer: False

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Intensive interviewing are unstructured group interviews where a leader of the group (the researcher) encourages discussion among the participants on topics of interest.

True

False

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Correct Answer: False

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Qualitative data are mostly written or spoken words or observations that do not have a direct numerical interpretation.

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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