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Gau, Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice 3e SAGE Publishing, 2019 Test Bank

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Use of Statistics in Criminal

Justice and Criminology Multiple Choice

• The process of gathering and analyzing data in a systematic and controlled way

using techniques and procedures that are accepted by other scientists in a discipline is commonly referred to as ______.

• speculation
• counter-intuitive induction
• science
• deductive introspection

Ans: C

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Science: Basic Terms and Concepts

Difficulty Level: Medium

• Procedures used by scientists to gather and analyze scientific data are referred to as

what?

• methods
• modus operandi
• operational nox
• formation

Ans: A

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Science: Basic Terms and Concepts

Difficulty Level: Medium

• A hypotheses is best described as ______.
• a set of proposed and testable explanations about reality that is bound together by

logic and evidence

• a law governing the coherence of social and criminal phenomena
• a set of rules governing the application of statistical analytic techniques for examining

quantitative data

• a single proposition, deduced from a theory, that must hold true in order for the

theory itself to be considered valid

Ans: D

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Types of Scientific Research in Criminal Justice and Criminology

Difficulty Level: Medium

• Which of the terms below can best be described as a set of proposed and testable

explanations about reality that is bound together by logic and evidence? 2 / 4

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• validity
• hypothesis
• law
• theory

Ans: D

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Types of Scientific Research in Criminal Justice and Criminology

Difficulty Level: Medium

• Studies intending to assess whether policies, programs, or interventions are effective

are referred to as what style of research?

• evaluation research
• exploratory research
• confounding research
• matriculation research

Ans: A

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Types of Scientific Research in Criminal Justice and Criminology

Difficulty Level: Medium

• A sample can best be described as ______.
• the grouping of people, places, and objects used to generalize to the population
• a subset pulled from a population with the goal of ultimately using the people,

objects, or places in the sample as a way to generalize to the population

• the entire set, or universe, of people, places, or objects used to generalize to a

population

• a technique used by social science researchers in attempts to prove existing

theoretical propositions true in the general population

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Science: Basic Terms and Concepts

Difficulty Level: Medium

• In order to ensure that a sample mirrors the population from which it was drawn a

scientist would employ which type of sampling technique?

• quota sampling
• purposive sampling
• probability sampling
• snowball sampling

Ans: C

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Types of Scientific Research in Criminal Justice and Criminology

Difficulty Level: Medium

• Despite suffering from a variety of problems, why is the NCVS considered so useful

for research? 3 / 4

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• The NCVS is actually not all that useful because it is replete with methodological

errors.

• The NCVS is useful due to the fact that it facilitates research into the characteristics

of crime victims.

• The NCVS is only useful because it contains files that are quite small and easy to

interpret.

• The NCVS is not useful at all but because it is so widely published, researchers

make use of its limited information.

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The National Crime Victimization Survey

Difficulty Level: Medium

• Two sources of actual, real-world data used in this text are ______.
• UCR and NCVS
• MMPI and BJS
• ICPSR and MMPI
• DSM and ICPSR

Ans: A

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What Do Criminal Justice and Criminology Researchers Study?

Difficulty Level: Medium

• Crimes reported within the Uniform Crime Report are sorted into eight index

offenses. Which of the following represent those specific indices?

• aggravated manslaughter, vehicular homicide, pedophilia, human trafficking, drug

possession, environmental offenses, piracy, and infanticide

• terroristic assault, hate crimes, murder, manslaughter, infanticide, patricide, drug

offenses, and suicide

• pedophilia, necrophilia, kidnapping, white-collar crime, airline hijacking, human

trafficking, drug trafficking, and traffic offenses

• homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle

theft, and arson

Ans: D

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Uniform Crime Reports

Difficulty Level: Medium

• The organization that is responsible for the collection of data for the Uniform Crime

Reports is the ______.

• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Central Intelligence Agency
• American University
• Bureau of Justice Statistics

Ans: A

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

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