Exam 1: Crime Criminal-Justice And-Scientific-Inquiry

We can understand something by knowing the why before the what.

When a researcher is aware that a certain pattern exists in the data,he/she may commit the error of____________________ observation when they ignore events that do not fit the pattern.

science cannot settle debates on values.

A vast number of norms and rules in society create regularity.

Illogical reasoning is best illustrated by which of the following?

In social science,rather than focusing upon an individual,we look at whole groups known as:

Casual human inquiry is a more rigorous way of investigation than probability and causality.

Moving from specific data to a general theory or understanding is called __________reasoning.

Values of the dependant variable depend on the:

Explain the difference between quantitative and qualitative data.Give an example of each from the field of criminal justice.Can both quantitative and qualitative data be used in each of the four purposes of doing research? Why or why not?

Tradition and authority are forms of personal human inquiry.Give examples of each by using scenarios from the criminal justice field.

A research project concerning law enforcement that produces an alternative view of a practice represents:

Gender and race are both examples of:

When we rely on the "truths" of our culture,we are accepting knowledge derived from the majority,and this is called acceptance of:

Characteristics or qualities that describe an object are known as:

Selective observation can be the result of

Research into crime is related to ideology and politics in the following manner:

When you repeat a study to see if you achieve similar results,you are doing

When taking conscious and deliberate steps to insure that what you are looking at is what you intended to look at,you avoid:

Things we know from direct experience are a direct result of which type of reality?