According to the textbook, which two series of crime measures seek to assess the
magnitude, nature, and impact of crime in the Nation?
a. UCR and NIBRS
b. UCR and NCVS
c. UCR and Part I Crimes
d. UCR and ADAM
In Martin Gill’s research on the effectiveness of CCTV projects in the UK, which of the
following techniques did he
use?
a. the research measured fear of crime by citizens before and after the cameras went up
b. the research measured police data before the cameras went up
c. comparison was made only in the area where cameras were in use
d. measured if the offenders changed the type of crimes they were committing
Field Research in Criminal Justice produces the following type(s) of data:
a. quantitative
b. qualitative
c. quantitative and qualitative
d. clerical errors
Which of the following would represent a distribution of those arrested on a holiday
weekend?
a. the exact number of persons arrested for violation of specific statute numbers
b. a list of persons arrested with the corresponding statute number they allegedly
violated
c. the number of persons arrested for violent crimes, the number of persons arrested for
property crimes and the number of persons arrested for public order crimes
d. all of the above
In a web-based survey, anonymity could be achieved by
a. not requiring participants to provide their name
b. allowing respondents to remain anonymous
c. not requiring participant login information
d. all of the above
Which of the following cannot be studied scientifically in the field of criminal justice?
a. the relationship between the number of police officers on the street and the crime rate
b. the relationship between the number of police officers on the street and citizen
satisfaction
c. the role that an act of a deity plays on being arrested for a criminal offense
d. the role that age plays in slowing one’s criminal activities
An RA at a local university devised a plan to spot check the dorm for illegal drinking by
knocking on every 5thdoor on each floor. What technique was the RA using?
a. stratified sampling
b. simple random sampling
c. quota sampling
d. systematic sampling
The type of weapon used in a crime is what type of variable?
a. interval
b. ratio
c. discrete
d. continuous
Which of the following is an example of a variable?
a. social disorganization
b. crime
c. social class
d. annual family income
The test-retest method is used to examine:
a. reliability
b. validity
c. generalizability
d. precision
High-caliber qualitative studies:
a. retain richness
b. recognize meaning
c. do not lose track of context
d. all of these answers are correct
Discuss the improvements that have been made to UCR through the NIBRS and the
Redesigned NCVS. Predict whether these changes will make a major difference in our
understanding of crime in America.
Answer:N/A
The objective of the text is to help future criminal justice professionals become:
a. informed consumers of research
b. informed consumers of books
c. experts in the department of justice
d. expert readers
Which of the following are examples of research where there was potential harm to the
researcher?
a. Latane and Darley’s experimental study of bystander intervention where researchers
staged crimes to gauge
the reaction of citizens
b. Bruce Johnson’s study of heroin users in New York where participants were gathered
by word of mouth
among addicts
c. Reuter, MacCoun and Murphy’s study using probation records to identify drug
dealers
d. all of the above
In order to protect prisoners since they are a special population, researchers should do
all of the following except
a. make sure there are no repercussions if prisoners choose not to participate in the
research
b. offer the prisoners money to participate
c. have at least one member of the institutional review board be either a prisoner or
someone designated to represent the interests of the prisoners
d. do not expose prisoners to risks that would be considered excessive for non-prison
subjects
A single incident cannot include multiple offenses, but may have one offense and
multiple offenders.
a. True
b. False
A person’s height as a measure of a person’s IQ would be seen as having what problem?
a. precision
b. reliability
c. accuracy
d. validity
The specification of conceptual definitions serves as a specific working definition and
also:
a. focuses observational strategy
b. focuses research on the task at hand
c. focuses readers on the core issue
d. focuses on fixing the problem
Which of the following crimes are detected almost exclusively by police observation?
a. traffic offenses
b. victimless crimes
c. drug sales
d. all of the above
NCVS data would be helpful in answering all of the research questions except
a. What is the average age of sexual assault victims in urban areas with populations
over 100,000?
b. What is the mean income of families that are victims of burglary?
c. Why might an offender change from doing burglaries to committing home invasions?
d. What city in the country has the greatest number of victims of robbery?
Which of the following is not true concerning a cohort study?
a. all members of the cohort have something in common
b. members of a cohort may be all born in the same year
c. cohort members are studied as individuals as well as their group affiliation
d. members of a cohort may be all police officers hired in a particular year
Reliability is measuring what you think you are measuring.
a. True
b. False
You observe police activity in your city for one week, and then you describe what you
observed. What type of study have you preformed?
a. explorative
b. descriptive
c. explanative
d. applicative
In Sherman and colleagues’ research dealing with crime hot spots they chose to use
calls for service” to local law enforcement as a means of measuring where different
types of crimes happened with greatest frequency. They noted some problems with the
use of calls for service. Which of the following represents those problems?
a. there is a potential for duplicate calls to local law enforcement for any one event
b. there may be false reports, in other words no crime happened
c. there can be misleading findings such as parking lots or hospitals may appear to be
hot spots when in fact they are not
d. all of the above
They underlying meaning of a communication is it’s:
a. latent content
b. manifest content
c. coding content
d. coding scheme
The number of counts on an indictment is an example of what type of variable?
a. nominal
b. discrete
c. continuous
d. ordinal
If a number of social scientists agree that a phenomenon exists, they are using
intersubjective agreement for objectivity.
a. True
b. False
It is fair to say that the UCR is:
a. a mutually exclusive measure
b. not a truly reliable measure
c. an exhaustive measure
d. all of the above
When you have a population that does not allow for probability sampling, one way of
stating your findings that is what?
a. say that your findings are statistically significant
b. say that your findings are significant but not random
c. say that your findings represent a statistically discernible difference
d. say that your findings are as significant as if you have been able to use randomization
Drug episodes are defined as:
a. excessive use of drugs during a certain time frame
b. withdrawal from a certain drug that lasts for an extended period
c. visits to a hospital emergency room that are produced by or directly related to the use
of illegal drugs or non- medical use of drugs
d. lengthy periods of drug use exceeding one year