CCJ 4700 - Exam 1 questions well
answered to pass
What are the two realities that explain how we know what we know? - correct answer
✔✔Experiential - direct experience
Agreement - what we've been told
What is tradition? Give an example. - correct answer ✔✔Things that "everybody knows"
Ex: Driving on the left side of the road in the U.S. is dangerous
What is authority? Give an example. - correct answer ✔✔Trusting the judgement of someone
with special expertise
Ex: You are more likely to believe a judge regarding your driver's license suspension than your
parents
Errors in Personal Human Inquiry - correct answer ✔✔Inaccurate Observation - overcome by
using measurement devices
Overgeneralization - overcome by replicating the study to see if you get the same results
Selective Observation - specify in advance the number and types of observations
Purposes of Research - correct answer ✔✔Explore - examine an issue or policy about which
little is known
Describe - observe and describe the scope of a problem or policy response
Explain - answer "why?"
Apply - Applied research is often used to evaluate the effects of specific criminal justice
programs
Two major types of applied research:
, - Evaluation research
Comparing program goals to results
- Policy analysis Anticipate future consequences of alternative actions
What is the research process? - correct answer ✔✔Problem or Objective - Describes what will
be studied
Literature Review - Summarizes the prior research on the topic
Research Questions - Specifies what the research will answer
Subjects For Study - Whom or what will be studied
Measurement - Identifies the key variables of the study
Data Collection Methods - Explains how observations will be collected
Analysis - Specifies how the observations will be analyzed
References - List of materials consulted and cited
Schedule - A timeline for the various stages of the proposal
Budget - Species where money to support the research will be spent
Social Scientific Theory - correct answer ✔✔Discovering what is, not what should be
- Cannot settle debates on value
- Problematic with evaluators
Ex: What constitutes a good parole officer?
Social science aims to find... - correct answer ✔✔Patterns of regularity in social life created by
norms, rules, and observations
What kind of patterns do social regularities represent? - correct answer ✔✔Probabilistic
What are more often the subject of social science research? - correct answer ✔✔Aggregates
answered to pass
What are the two realities that explain how we know what we know? - correct answer
✔✔Experiential - direct experience
Agreement - what we've been told
What is tradition? Give an example. - correct answer ✔✔Things that "everybody knows"
Ex: Driving on the left side of the road in the U.S. is dangerous
What is authority? Give an example. - correct answer ✔✔Trusting the judgement of someone
with special expertise
Ex: You are more likely to believe a judge regarding your driver's license suspension than your
parents
Errors in Personal Human Inquiry - correct answer ✔✔Inaccurate Observation - overcome by
using measurement devices
Overgeneralization - overcome by replicating the study to see if you get the same results
Selective Observation - specify in advance the number and types of observations
Purposes of Research - correct answer ✔✔Explore - examine an issue or policy about which
little is known
Describe - observe and describe the scope of a problem or policy response
Explain - answer "why?"
Apply - Applied research is often used to evaluate the effects of specific criminal justice
programs
Two major types of applied research:
, - Evaluation research
Comparing program goals to results
- Policy analysis Anticipate future consequences of alternative actions
What is the research process? - correct answer ✔✔Problem or Objective - Describes what will
be studied
Literature Review - Summarizes the prior research on the topic
Research Questions - Specifies what the research will answer
Subjects For Study - Whom or what will be studied
Measurement - Identifies the key variables of the study
Data Collection Methods - Explains how observations will be collected
Analysis - Specifies how the observations will be analyzed
References - List of materials consulted and cited
Schedule - A timeline for the various stages of the proposal
Budget - Species where money to support the research will be spent
Social Scientific Theory - correct answer ✔✔Discovering what is, not what should be
- Cannot settle debates on value
- Problematic with evaluators
Ex: What constitutes a good parole officer?
Social science aims to find... - correct answer ✔✔Patterns of regularity in social life created by
norms, rules, and observations
What kind of patterns do social regularities represent? - correct answer ✔✔Probabilistic
What are more often the subject of social science research? - correct answer ✔✔Aggregates
