Experimental Research
The group of subjects that do not receive a treatment
Control group
The name of a data set housed by the BJS that collects data from victims of crime
National Crime Victimization Survey
This type of data has geographical coordinates associated with it
Geospatial data
These are individuals or organizations who have a direct interest in the program being evaluated
Stakeholders
This primary goal of experimental research can be assumed when temporal ordering is established, Association is determined, and spuriousness is absent.
Causation
This process may be expedited when secondary data is used, because no human subjects are being contacted.
IRB
Proponents of this type of data analysis claim that it can predict when or who will be involved in criminality
Predictive policing
This type of evaluation takes place while the program is still in-process
Formative Evaluation
This is what a researcher does to an independent variable. Also known as treatment.
Manipulate
This data set is housed by the FBI and contains crime information collected from local agencies
Uniform Crime Reporting
When locations are used to identify criminal patterns, it is also known by this term
Geographic profiling
This type of evaluation takes place after the completion of a program
Summative Evaluation
To have data available to compare before and after a treatment, a researcher may administer this before the treatment is given.
Pre-test
This bureau is responsible for collecting demographic data every 10 years throughout the country
Census Bureau
When law enforcement agencies rely too heavily on data from predictive policing, it may result in this abundance of police presence in an area and subsequent biases
Overpolicing
This is a word used to describe the usefulness of a evaluation research
Utility
The type of experimental research when it is impossible to randomly assign control groups
Quasi-experimental
Geospatial data
This trademarked abbreviation is a shortened version of Predictive Policing software
PredPol
Another way of describing how ethical the researcher's study was
Propriety