Chapter 9
The analysis of data that were originally collected by someone else at another time is known as
A) Secondary data analysis
B) Stolen data collection
C) Primary data collection
D) Public domain information
A) Secondary data analysis
The ________________________ stipulates that all persons have a right to access all federal agency records unless the records are specifically exempted
Freedom of Information Act
Descriptive comparative research seeks to understand the structure, nature or scope of a nation’s (or nations’) criminal justice systems.
True
False
True
Virtually all types of designs, measure, and data collection techniques can be used in evaluation research and problem analysis
True
The most powerful alternatives to true randomized experimental designs are
A) Nonequivalent control group design
B) Participant observation design
C) Time series design
D) Both A and B
D) Both A and B
Even when data are collected by an official government agency, there may be concerns with _______________.
data quality
Using a ____________ sampling strategy, researchers select cases because they reflect theoretically important distinctions
purposive
Policy research is a _________ rather than a method.
process
__________ is the use of social science research procedures to systematically assess the effectiveness of social intervention programs.
program evaluation
A type of evaluation research that compares program costs to program effects is
A) A cost-effectiveness analysis
B) A cost-benefit analysis
C) An effective-benefit analysis
D) Both A and B
D) Both A and B
___________ provides visual and statistical analysis of the spatial nature of crime and other events.
crime mapping
A ________________________ uses data from several sources to predict the probability of crime occurring in the future.
Risk Terrain Model
The time series research conducted by Bye in 2008
A) Examined drug abuse and juvenile delinquency between 1950-2000
B) Examined alcohol use and violence in western European countries
C) Examined per capita alcohol consumption and homicide rate data general between the 1950s and 2002
D) None of the above
C) Examined per capita alcohol consumption and homicide rate data general between the 1950s and 2002
Which of the following is a topic appropriate for evaluation research and problem analysis?
A) New Policies
B) Laws
C) Programs
D) All of the above
D) All of the above
The impact of the program process on the cases processed is known as
A) Incomes
B) Inputs
C) Outcomes
D) Program process
C) Outcomes
What did Shaw and McKay conduct their landmark analysis in criminology on?
juvenile delinquency in Chicago neighborhoods
_______________is the systematic, objective, quantitative analysis of message characteristics.
content analysis
A type of evaluation research that is conducted to determine whether it is feasible to evaluate a program’s effects with available time and resources is known as
an evaluability assessment
Which type of research is the preferred method for maximizing internal validity?
experiments
Research that has an impact on policy is known as
applied research
List the four major types of secondary data used in social science research.
Surveys, Official Statistics, Official Records, Historical Documents
List the two types of comparative research.
Descriptive comparative, Analytic comparative
What is the second basic step of evaluation?
design of instruments
What is the fourth basic step of evaluation?
data collection
What is the fifth basic step of evaluation?
data analysis