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_____ is defined as surveys of the general public to measure the rate and circumstances of victimization.

Victim surveys

Fund-raising

All of these

Fraud

Answer

Correct Answer: Victim surveys

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_____ is concept that varies or that can take on different numerical values.

None of these

Philosophical

Political

Variable

Answer

Correct Answer: Variable

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Is validity the accuracy of measurement?

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as nonreactive methods of data gathering in which the subjects are unaware that they are being studied.

Heels

Unobtrusive measures

All of these

Boosters

Answer

Correct Answer: Unobtrusive measures

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_____ is defined as official police report on crime maintained by the FBI.

Uniform Crime Report (UCR)

All of these

Age

Gender

Answer

Correct Answer: Uniform Crime Report (UCR)

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_____ is crimes that the police decide never took place.

Sociological

Unfounded crimes

Psychological

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Unfounded crimes

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Is triangulation the use of multiple research methods?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as plausible explanation of reality.

Theory

Victimization theory

Victim facilitation

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Theory

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_____ is defined as various ways of gathering data that include mail questionnaires, interviews, and telephone and Internet surveys.

Gendered justice

Surveys

Victimization of women

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Surveys

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_____ is include experiments, surveys, participant observation, case studies, and unobtrusive measures.

None of these

Terrorism

Sources of crime statistics

Espionage

Answer

Correct Answer: Sources of crime statistics

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Is simulation games that mimic reality?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as self-admission surveys of admitted crime.

All of these

Pedophilia

Self-report measures

Voyeurism

Answer

Correct Answer: Self-report measures

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_____ is defined as the consistency or stability of measurement.

Freud

Darwin

All of these

Reliability

Answer

Correct Answer: Reliability

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_____ is a system of mutual obligation between researcher and subject.

None of these

Reciprocity

Sophisticated statistical treatment

Internal validity

Answer

Correct Answer: Reciprocity

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Is participant observation a methodology that involves the observation of a group by participating in varying degrees in its activities?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the nonindex crimes that are not used in the calculation of the crime rate.

Darwin

All of these

Part II crimes

Freud

Answer

Correct Answer: Part II crimes

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_____ is defined as the index crimes or crimes that are used in order to calculate the crime rate.

Engels

Part I crimes

None of these

Einstein

Answer

Correct Answer: Part I crimes

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_____ is describing how a concept is being measured.

Hobbs

None of these

Organized crime

Operationalization

Answer

Correct Answer: Operationalization

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Is objectivity the idea that researchers should be neutral or unbiased in examining their subject matter?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a system for recording far more detail on crime incidents that is intended to replace the UCR.

National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)

Overcriminalization

None of these

Undercriminalization

Answer

Correct Answer: National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)

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_____ is defined as a survey of the general public to measure claimed crime victimization.

National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)

Not all biological differences are inherited

Most studies reflect the dualistic fallacy

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)

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_____ is the attempt to gather data that are accurate.

Conceptualization

Simulation

Methodology

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Methodology

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Is methodological narcissism the belief that one’s favorite method is best?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a qualitative, case study method of examining a subject’s life history.

Life history

All of these

Victim impact statements

Consultation

Answer

Correct Answer: Life history

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_____ is defined as part I crimes in the Uniform Crime Reports that are used to construct the violent crime and property crime indexes.

Snitches

Stings

All of these

Index crimes

Answer

Correct Answer: Index crimes

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_____ is research that involves variations of the classic experimental design employing equivalence, pretests and posttests, and experimental and control groups.

None of these

Experiment

Lombroso

Marx

Answer

Correct Answer: Experiment

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Is evidence-based research research findings that are based on replicated, experimental research?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as basic behavior that is expected in moral and ethical research.

Ethical conduct in research

All of these

Ex post facto

Nullum crimen sine lege

Answer

Correct Answer: Ethical conduct in research

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_____ is defined as unmeasured or undiscovered crime.

Are not drug addicts usually

Dark figure of crime

None of these

Do not have stable family lives

Answer

Correct Answer: Dark figure of crime

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_____ is the number of index crimes divided by the population times 100,000.

Victimization theory

Crime rate

All of these

Capable guardianship

Answer

Correct Answer: Crime rate

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Is crime index a measure of crime (Part I crimes) that results in the calculation of the crime rate?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the requirement in research that the researcher protect the identity of his or her subjects.

Social Darwinism

Confidentiality

All of these

Atavism

Answer

Correct Answer: Confidentiality

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_____ is defined as requirements that researchers behave ethically in conducting research.

None of these

Phrenology

Palmistry

Code of ethics (for research)

Answer

Correct Answer: Code of ethics (for research)

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_____ is a research design that has equivalence, an experimental and a control group, and a pretest and posttest.

Classic experimental design

Juarez Plaza

None of these

Medeliin cartel

Answer

Correct Answer: Classic experimental design

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Is case study a qualitative, case study method of examining a subject’s life history?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as an international organization that conducts meta-analyses in order to discover what works in criminology.

Campbell collaboration

Chase Manhattan Bank did business with the Nazis during the war.

Online piracy results in lost revenue.

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Campbell collaboration

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______ means that the assignment of subjects to experimental and control groups are done in a manner in which they are all assumed to be alike.

Equivalence

Post-test

Pre-test

Participant observation

Answer

Correct Answer: Equivalence

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______ involves the process of defining concepts by describing how they will be measured.

Simulation

Conceptualization

Triangulation

Operationalization

Answer

Correct Answer: Operationalization

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Which of the data sources of crime below uses a survey instrument?

NCPS

NIBRS

NCVS

UCR

Answer

Correct Answer: NCVS

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Triangulation involves the consistency of measurement.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Which of the following questions has a direct bearing on methodology?

How much crime is there?

Why do some individuals become criminals?

Why are some areas more criminogenic than others?

Why are some nations more criminogenic than others?

Answer

Correct Answer: How much crime is there?

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Criminal homicide, forcible rape, and arson are all examples of Type I UCR offenses.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Which of the following offenses was added to the original index in 1978?

Auto theft

Arson

Robbery

Larceny

Answer

Correct Answer: Arson

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Which of the following changes had a major impact on crime recording?

Increased citizen awareness

More professional police departments

Political shenanigans

Demographic shifts

Answer

Correct Answer: Political shenanigans

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Laud Humphreys’ Tearoom Trade study was controversial, but did not violate any ethical guidelines.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Which of the following terms involves the consistency or stability of measurement?

Validity

Triangulation

Reliability

Reciprocity

Answer

Correct Answer: Reliability

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A concept that has been operationalized or measured in a specific manner is called ______.

Concept

Experiment

Construct

Variable

Answer

Correct Answer: Variable

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The crime index is made up of primarily of property crimes.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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All of the following led to the crime dip of the 1990s except ______.

Legalization of abortion

Decline in the crack cocaine epidemic

Healthy economy

Marijuana legalization

Answer

Correct Answer: Marijuana legalization

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Qualitative data gathering techniques involve ______.

More engagement with the field

External validity

Internal validity

Sophisticated statistical treatment

Answer

Correct Answer: More engagement with the field

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Objectivity is more important than subjectivity when conducting research in any discipline.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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