Scientific study of the nature, extent, management, control,
consequences, and prevention of criminal behavior, both on
the individuals and social levels.
What is Criminology.
100
What is the combination of methods to answer a question?
What is triangulation.
100
What is a tentative statement about empirical reality, involving a relationship between two or more variables and the direction of the relationship?
What is a hypothesis.
100
What is the committee that reviews research proposals to ensure that research is abiding by ethical principles
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)
100
What is a mental image that summarizes a set of similar observations,feelings, or ideas.
What is a concept.
200
Findings based on intuition, gut reactions, or personal experience
What is pseudoscience.
200
What kind of research is the following example: What is the magnitude of youth violence?
What is descriptive research.
200
What is the dependent variable in this hypothesis- People who receive less parental affection as children are more likely to commit crimes.
What are committ crimes.
200
What occurs when subjects are misled about
research procedures to determine how they would
react to the treatment if they were not research
subjects?
What is deception.
200
What is the process of specifying the operations (measures) that will indicate the value of a variable?
What is operationalization.
300
What is empirical data?
What is research based on observation, data.
300
What kind of research gathers more information on newly identified areas/concerns and explores an event or attribute.
What is exploratory research.
300
What is research that moves from general ideas (theory) to specific reality (data)?
What is deductive reasoning.
300
What was the unethical research study we watched in class?
What is Philip Zimbardoʼs Stanford Prison Experiment?
300
What are the levels of measurement?
What are nominal, ordinal, interval, and ration.
400
What are the motives of criminological research?
What are policy motivations, academic motivations, and personal motivations.
400
What kind of research predicts how one phenomenon will change or vary in response to another phenomenon?
What is explanatory research.
400
What are the elements of social research?
What is research question, relevant literature, social theory, and research hypotheses.
400
What are the four main ethical principles when conducting research?
What are achieving valid results, honesty and openness, protecting the research participant, and the uses of research.
400
What are the four major units of analysis?
What are individuals, groups, organization, and geographic areas.
500
What are the errors in reasoning?
What is overgeneralization, selective observation, inaccurate observation, illogical reasoning, and resistance to change.
500
What type of research is this example: do more street lights reduce violence on Prospect?
What is evaluation research.
500
What are the three requirements to make a good research question?
What is feasible, socially important, and scientifically relevant.
500
The Belmont Report established what three ethical principles?
What are respect for persons, beneficence, and justice.
500
What are the five types of validity?
What are measurement validity, face validity, content validity, criterion validity, and construct validity.