Question : The three basic forms of interviews are structured, unstructured and depth : 2153836

TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.

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

2) Structured interviews provide open-ended response to questions.

3) Unstructured interviews consist of check-off responses to questions that are factual and easily fit an expected pattern.

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

5) Interviewer effect refers to biases introduced by the interviewer.

6) In unstructured interviews, it is important for interviewers to become familiar with the flow of the questionnaire.

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

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

9) The advantages of mail surveys include not only the elimination of a field staff, but simpler monitoring of interviewer bias, because the supervisor can be present at the time the mailings are developed.

10) Scanning questions refer to preliminary questions employed to determine appropriate respondents for the main portion of a survey.

11) Unrecorded crime, or the dark figure of crime, as it was referred to by early European criminologists, has always escaped such official statistics.

12) Target surveys involve questioning a representative sample of the population to obtain an estimate of victimization, a portion of which is not reported to the police.

13) Crime panel consists of repeated interviews every six months to bound or provides a benchmark for reports.

14) Bounding is the initial interview in a panel and serves as a boundary or means of establishing exactly when events have taken place.

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

16) Demand characteristics refers to the tendency of respondents to move forward and report as having occurred events that actually occurred before the reference period.

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

18) Overreporting in victimization surveys may be accounted for by the fact that when asked, respondents will report to interviewers acts that they ordinarily would regard as too trivial or unimportant to warrant police attention.

19) Any survey involving interviewers contains the potential for interviewer bias.

20) Reverse record checks involve validation of reported behavior on the basis of studying a group whose behavior is already known.

SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.

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

22) ________ provides open-ended response to questions.

23) ________ are more intensive or detailed interviews that are particularly useful in life histories or case studies.

24) ________ refers to the biases introduced by the interviewer.

25) ________ refers to a means of coping with resistance to sensitive questions by using indeterminate questions, ones in which the actual question answered is known only to the respondent.

26) In ________, it is important for interviewers to become familiar with the flow of the questionnaire.

27) ________ refers to the follow-up questions that focuses, expands, or clarifies the response given.

28) ________ refers to the use of short stories as a data-gathering device.

29) ________ ensure a high response rate and possess many distinct advantages, but the cost, size of staff, and time required often make it prohibitive for many surveys.

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

31) In ________ the researcher uses a laptop computer instead of a clipboard.

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

33) ________ are surveys in which subjects are asked to report alleged victimizations.

34) ________ refers to the tendency of respondents to move forward and report as having occurred events that actually occurred before the reference period.

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

ESSAY. Write your answer in the space provided or on a separate sheet of paper.

36) Define and discuss the three basic forms of interviews.

37) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of interviews.

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

39) Identify and discuss the problems associated with victim surveys.

40) Identify and discuss the benefits of victim surveys.