Criminal Justice Discussion 8

Part A- No required word count

1). Compare and contrasts the documentaries “Andrea Yates” and “Aileen Wuornos” (both in the writing analysis thumbnail) by what you though was interesting about the courtroom procedure and the demeanor of the female defendant.

2.) Identify legal and extralegal factors that impact women’s processing in the system. How do these relate to factors such as race, glass, gender, age, education, nationality, and so on? Which factors you think are more important and why?

Part B Answer Part B in 4-5 sentences for all questions together, not 4-5 sentences each

1. Write 1 closed-ended and 1 open-ended survey question to measure the concept of delinquency.
2. If you were to administer this survey, who would be your target sample? Why?
3. How would you administer this survey (i.e., what survey design would you use?)? Why?

Part C- No required word count

1. What survey did the researchers get their data from?
2. How did the researchers measure violent victimization?
3. What type of question was violent victimization measured with?
4. Is it a good measure of violent victimization? Why or why not?

Part D

1

A question or statement that contains two negatives, known as a double-negative, can be very difficult to answer.

True

False

2

Questions that ask about more than one topic per question, making it unclear which question is being answered, are called ______.

loaded questions

close-ended questions

double-barreled questions

matrix questions

3

Which survey design is least expensive?

Telephone surveys

In-person interviews

Electronic surveys

Mailed surveys

4

Open-ended questions have explicit response choices.

True

False

5

Recommendations for avoiding challenges with obtaining survey responses that provide useful data include those listed below with the exception of ______.

avoid agreement bias

include several double-barreled questions

avoid confusing phrasing and vagueness

ensure that response categories are mutually exclusive and exhaustive

6

The appropriate reference period to set when asking about rare events is in the past month.

True

False

7

Writing survey questions

should allow for ambiguity so that a respondent can respond in many ways.

are best if they are written in the open-ended style.

are always easy to make clear and unambiguous.

can have a great effect on the way they are answered.

8

People often tend to agree with a statement just to avoid seeming disagreeable. .

True

False

9

To identify problems with a survey before it is sent to the sample of respondents, researchers use ______.

panels

pilots

population

probing

10

Fixed-choice questions are the same as closed-ended questions.

True

False

11

When the researcher becomes a group member unbeknownst to the group, but known to the researcher’s primary contacts, this role conception is called ______.

observer as participant

complete participant

participant and observer

covert participant

12

Systematically gathering qualitative data that offers a holistic and comprehensive understanding of the culture, environment, and social traits of individuals or individuals in a group is called ______.

saturation

ethnography

surveying

purposive sampling

13

Collecting detailed information about a topic from a study participant’s own experiences by asking open-ended questions in a natural setting is known as ______.

surveying

observation

intensive interviewing

fieldwork

14

The first formal analytical step in qualitative research is

corroborating and authenticate conclusions

examining relationships and display data

conceptualization, coding and categorizing

documentation

15

Open the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) dataset in SPSS. Conduct a Chi-square analysis (crosstabs command) with the categorical variables q24: Have you ever been bullied @ school (independent variable) and qhallucDrug: Ever used LSD [coded as 1 = yes; 2 = no] (dependent variable). Look at the output window. What number of respondents who had been bullied also reported using LSD?

9,470

667

223

2,150

16

A major distinction between the majority of qualitative and quantitative inquiry is ______.

saturation

inductive reasoning

ethnography

triangulation

17

A systematic approach to sampling in participant observational research is

strategic sampling

experiential sampling

field sampling

theoretical sampling

18

A group of 7-10 people, usually chosen so that they are relatively homogeneous, that participates in a focused discussion session is a

intensive interviewing

strategic discussion group

focus group

systematic social observation

19

The goal of many qualitative researchers is to create grounded theory, or to

deductively build a theory for the quantitative explanation

apply statistical analyses to grounded hypotheses

create a theory that is simplistically built into a complex conceptual undertaking

build up a systematic theory that is grounded in or based on observations

20

The use of ethnographic methods to study online communities is known as

fishnetting

catfishing

netnography

cyberography