Households used by the National Crime Victimization Survey are an example of which unit of analysis?

Households used by the National Crime Victimization Survey are an example of which unit of analysis?

Subject: Law    / General Law
Question
Question 1

Households used by the National Crime Victimization Survey are an example of which unit of analysis?

Answer

a.

groups

b.

organizations

c.

individuals

d.

social artifacts
Question 2

With respect to causation:

Answer

a.

it is the focus of explanatory research.

b.

it suggests a cause and effect relationship.

c.

cause in social science is inherently probabilistic.

d.

all of the above
Question 3

Much of the current research in criminal justice and criminology focuses upon which of the following?

Answer

a.

causes of crime and effects of criminal justice policy

b.

how judges get their positions

c.

organization of the police and courts

d.

strategies used by police and defense attorneys

Question 4

Quantitative and Qualitative data deal with numerical and non-numerical data.

Answer

True

False

Question 5

An example of a cross-sectional study would be the US Census.

Answer

True

False

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Question 6

Which of the following would not be an example of social artifacts as units of analysis?

Answer

a.

diaries

b.

newspaper editorials

c.

probation officers

d.

television news programs
Question 7

Social artifacts refer only to paper documents, such as newspapers, court opinions, and police crime reports.

Answer

True

False

Question 8

A panel study uses the same subjects on multiple occasions.

Answer

True

False

Question 9

The independent variable is assumed to depend on or be caused by another variable.

Answer

True

False

Question 10

In using scientific inquiry during the deductive phase, we reason towards observations; during the inductive phase, we reason from observations.

Answer

True

False

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT an example of a hypothesis?

Answer

a.

males score higher in math than females

b.

poor children have higher delinquency rates than middle class children

c.

grades will be higher for those who study daily than those who only study before an exam

d.

why is the sky dark at night?

Question 12

Criminal justice and human behavior can be studied scientifically.

Answer

True

False

Question 13

When the relationship between two variables is drawn from a theory, it is said to be a

Answer

A.

fact.

B.

hypothesis.

C.

mini theory.

D.

paradigm.

Question 14

The ecological approach to understanding crime suggests that human behavior (criminal) is partially the result of the physical and social environment where the behavior takes place.

Answer

True

False

Question 15

All but which of the following would be a unit of analysis?

Answer

a.

groups

b.

individuals

c.

organizations

d.

social causes

Question 16

Marvin Wolfgang’s study of males born in Philadelphia in 1945 was an attempt to measure delinquency by following those males from their 10th birthday until they were 18. This is an example of what type of study?

Answer

a.

cohort

b.

cross-sectional

c.

panel

d.

trend

Question 17

Individual people may never be a unit of analysis.

Answer

True

False

Question 18

Inductive reasoning moves from general to specific.

Answer

True

False

Question 19

Causation in social science is the foundation for exploratory research.

Answer

True

False

Question 20

Social science cannot settle debates on _______________.

Answer

a.

facts

b.

logic

c.

observations