Exam 6: Interviews and Telephone Surveys

__________ consists of check-off responses to questions that are factual and easily fit an expected pattern.

Depth interviews are more intensive or detailed interviews that are particularly useful in life histories or case studies.

__________ are surveys in which subjects are asked to report alleged victimizations.

Which of the following refers to short stories about hypothetical characteristics in specified circumstances,to whose situation the interviewee is invited to respond.

__________ refers to the preliminary questions employed to determine appropriate respondents for the main portion of a survey.

Because of careful planning and execution,victim surveys never experience problems relating to false reporting or sampling bias.

Identify and discuss the specific procedures identified in the test for conducting offender interviews.

In __________ it is important for interviewers to become familiar with the flow of the questionnaire.

Examining involves asking follow-up questions to focus,expand,clarify,or further explain the response given.

What does NCVS stand for?

Which of the following refers to the initial interview in a panel that serves as a boundary of means of establishing exactly when events have taken place.

__________ refers to the overagreeableness on the part of those surveyed;respondents give the researcher the response they believe is demanded or expected.

The three basic forms of interviews are structured,unstructured and depth.

__________ refers to crime that is unmeasured by official statistics or that has not come to the notice of police.

Interviewer effect refers to biases introduced by the interviewer.

Editing refers to the reviewing of the questionnaire for accuracy by the research staff.

Telescoping refers to the overagreeableness on the part of those surveyed;respondents give the researcher the response they believe is demanded or expected.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of interviews.

Which of the following refers to a sampling procedure employed in telephone surveys in which random numbers are used to obtain unlisted numbers.

Which of the following refers to short descriptions of future possibilities?