First Quarter of Class
This is the most basic purpose of research
Exploration
A variable believed to cause or influence another variable in a study.
Independent or Predictor Variable
This method involves directly observing people in their natural environment, often used in policing studies.
This dataset was developed in 1929 and maintained by the FBI until 2021.
The Uniformed Crime Report
This is the weapon used by Jedi and Sith
Lightsaber
If we take what we learn from a select few observations and apply it to a wide range events, people, and situations, we are making what error to human inquiry?
Overgeneralization
This process specifies exactly how a concept will be measured in a study.
Operationalization
The group that receives the treatment or intervention is called this.
Experimental or treatment group
Using arrest records to measure crime rates is an example of this type of data source.
Official Records
This Sith uses a double-bladed lightsaber in The Phantom Menace.
Darth Maul
This ethical principle requires researchers to clearly explain a study and obtain voluntary agreement from participants.
Informed consent
This nonprobability sampling method is common in gang or drug market research, where subjects recruit other subjects.
Snow-Ball Sampling
This type of validity is strongest in well-controlled experiments.
Internal Validity
This major limitation of crime data occurs when victims do not report crimes to police.
Dark Figure of Crime
This Jedi Master trained Anakin Skywalker.
Obi-Wan Kenobi
This type of research makes observations at a single point in time.
Cross Sectional
Dividing a police department into patrol, detectives, and supervisors before randomly sampling each group is this type of sampling.
Stratified random sampling
What type of data is most commonly used in research articles published in prominent criminal justice journals
Secondary Data
This type of research focuses on whether a program has been implemented and is being delivered as it was designed
Process Evaluation
This battle station destroys planets and appears in A New Hope.
The Death Star
The extent to which research findings can be replicated under different conditions refers to what term?
External Validity
Measuring gang involvement solely by clothing style would likely have poor this.
Construct Validity
"What is your highest level of education" would reflect what level of measurement?
Ordinal (less than high school, high school graduate, some college, etc,)
The following example refers to what type of evaluation research: A city implements a focused deterrence strategy. Researchers compare homicide rates before and after implementation and find a 25% drop in shootings compared to similar cities without the program.
Impact Evaluation
This planet is Luke Skywalker’s homeworld.
Tatooine