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30 Cards in this Set
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No set standards exist for evaluating the ______ or “authenticity” of conclusions in a qualitative study
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validity
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Study of a culture or cultures that a group of people share, thorough an insightful telling of the “story” of the culture/group
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Ethnography
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Focuses on how people construct their social world
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Ethnomethodology
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Uses personal stories to understand social events and situations
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Narrative Analysis
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Focuses on sequence and details of personal interaction in conversation to understand how people construct reality
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Conversation Analysis
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Creation of ________ _________ is goal of much qualitative research
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Grounded Theory
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The _____________ is the major source of secondary data in crime and criminal justice
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National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)
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Cross-sectional examination of something that occurred in the past
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Historical Events Research
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Systematic, objective, quantitative analysis of message characteristics
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Content Analysis
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Purpose is to illuminate relationship between some category of crime and corresponding characteristics such as poverty and disorganization across given locations
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Crime Mapping
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Systematic collection of information about the activities, characteristics, and outcomes of programs to make judgments about the program, improve program effectiveness, and/or inform decisions about future programming
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Evaluation Research
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Evaluation research is usually done at the behest of a _____
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a client
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Examine relationship between 3 or more variables
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Multivariate
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most common value or value around which cases tend to center
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central tendency
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how cases are spread out through the distribution or clustered
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variability
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extent to which cases are clustered more at one end of the distribution
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skewness
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Values cluster to left
Right tail is longer |
positive skew
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Values cluster to right
Left tail is longer |
negative skew
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MEAN > MEDIAN
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skewed in a positive direction
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MEAN < MEDIAN
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skewed in a negative direction
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Measures of ______ capture how widely or densely spread the values are for the variable of interest.
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variation
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However, since the _____ can be drastically altered by just one exceptionally high or low value (an ______), it is not a good summary measure for most purposes.
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range, outlier
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Looks like a bell, with one “hump” in the middle, centered around the population mean, and the number of cases tapering off on both sides of the mean
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normal distribution
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If you folded it in half at its center (the population mean), the two halves would match perfectly
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symmetric
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Bivariate and multivariate comparisons are often presented in ________
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crosstabulations
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A _________ displays the distribution of one variable for each category of another variable; also called a _______ _______
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crosstabulation; bivariate distribution
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Research begins with the _______, regardless of the type or purpose of study
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proposal
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involves inclusion of some subjects as active participants in research, with goal of bringing change in problem under study
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participatory action research
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researcher interviews multiple stakeholders to identify range of views on a topic, ultimate goal is shared perspective on problem being studied
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constructivism
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brings out experiences, feelings, motives, and rationales of study participants so that reader can understand problem in depth
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case report
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