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Venkatesh
Field Research
Secondary Analysis
Program Evaluation/Problem Analysis
WILD CARD
100
What gang did Venkatesh become the leader of for the day?
Black Kings
100
What is the most commonly used sampling method in field research?
snowball sampling
100
T/F: Published agency records track individual people, not patterns of crime
false
100
T/F: Problem analysis should occur after policy implementation.
false
100
What city was Gang Leader for a Day set in?
Chicago
200
Who was Venkatesh's sponsor?
J.T.
200
What is the main challenge to the validity of a field research project?
reactivity
200
What is the name of the data bank that is hosted by the University of Michigan that stores all grant-funded CJ data?
ICPSR
200
What type of program evaluation is concerned with whether or not the program is being implemented correctly?
process evaluation
200
Give 2 strengths of field research.
answers vary
300
Which of the 4 roles did Venkatesh play?
participant as an observer
300
A safety audit is a form of what type of structured observation technique?
environment survey
300
What type of agency records does HPD collect?
nonpublic agency records
300
What is the most common type of program evaluation?
outcome evaluation
300
What is the name of the process by which cases are assigned to experimental and control groups?
case flow
400
Who was the head of the tenant building?
Ms. Bailey
400
What are the 4 roles of observation?
complete participant, participant as an observer, observer as a participant, complete observer
400
What year was the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics first published?
1972
400
What type of theory is concerned with practitioners' personal experiences?
program theory
400
What are Rossi's 5 types of program evaluations?
needs assessment, assessment of program theory, process evaluation, outcome evaluation, efficiency analysis
500
What type of research project did Venkatesh do?
ethnography
500
Since generalizability is difficult to achieve with field research, what level of external validity do researchers attempt to achieve?
transferability
500
What are the 4 sources of publicly published agency records?
Census Bureau, BJS, Sourcebook of CJ Statistics, UCR
500
What does SARA stand for?
scanning, analysis, response, assessment
500
What is the appraisal that decides whether or not the conditions to conduct an evaluation are present or not called?
evaluability assessment