Question : Which of the following is one of the major types of unobtrusive methods : 2153840
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) Which of the following is one of the major types of unobtrusive methods?
A) Complex analysis
B) Trace research
C) Archival, existing data, and autobiographies
D) None of the above
2) Which of the following comprises not only the analysis of official statistics and records, but also the procedures such as content analysis and secondary analysis?
A) Secondary analysis
B) Analysis of available data
C) Primary analysis
D) None of the above
3) Which of the following are nonreactive methods of gathering data, that is, means of obtaining information in which subjects are not aware of being studied?
A) Benign measures
B) Secondary measures
C) Unobtrusive measures
D) Content measures
4) Which of the following is a type of unobtrusive measurement that involves the analysis of deposits, accretion of matter, and other indirect substances produced by previous human interaction?
A) Secondary analysis
B) Content analysis
C) Primary analysis
D) Physical trace analysis
5) Which of the following refers to a systematic classification and analysis of data such as the content of mass media?
A) Secondary analysis
B) Content analysis
C) Physical trace analysis
D) Primary analysis
6) Which of the following refers to a reanalysis of data that were gathered for other purposes?
A) Content analysis
B) Primary analysis
C) Secondary analysis
D) Physical trace analysis
7) Which of the following entails a variety of gaming strategies that attempt to imitate a more complex social reality?
A) Imitation
B) Simulation
C) Ersatz
D) Replication
8) Which of the following was the pioneer among federal agencies in requiring that data sets from funded research be given to the agency upon completion of the project?
A) CIA
B) NSA
C) CRM
D) NIJ
9) The use of personal documents in social research was pioneered by Thomas and Znaniecki in their classic sociological work of what name?
A) The Polish Diaries
B) Classic Social Research
C) The Polish Peasant in Europe and America
D) The American Diaries
10) In which of the following does Sanyika Shakur provide an autobiographical account of his violent life as a Crip gang member in south central Los Angeles?
A) Life on the Street
B) The Red vs. The Blue: L.A. Gangs
C) Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
D) None of the above
11) Which of the following was the first criminal autobiographical life history in America appearing in 1807, and written by Henry Tuft?
A) The Autobiography of a Criminal
B) The Diary of Tuft
C) Criminal Tuft
D) None of the above
12) Which of the following is an example of secondary analysis and questioned recent research and police academy practice, both of which tend to underestimate the potential dangers to police who are mediating domestic (househol
D) encounters?
A) Danger to Police During Domestic Encounters: Assaults on Baltimore County Police
B) Inside the Danger of Domestic Violence
C) Danger to Police: Domestic Terrorism
D) None of the above
13) In which of the following publications did Sutherland use the records of regulatory agencies, courts, and commissions to study the seventy largest American industrial and mercantile corporations and their violations over a forty-year period of laws regulating such things as false advertising, patent abuse, wartime trade violations, price-fixing, fraud, and intended manufacturing and sale of faulty goods?
A) The 40-year Crime
B) Corporate Crime
C) White Collar Crime
D) None of the above
14) In which of the following did Clarke attempt to address the "pathological myth" about assassins, the belief that most had suffered from and were motivated by some mental sickness, insanity, or derangement?
A) Political Assassins
B) American Assassin: The True Story
C) American Assassins: The Darker Side of Politics
D) None of the above
15) Which of the following terms was coined by Glass and refers to quantitative analysis that reviews, combines, and summarizes the results of many different studies dealing with the same research question?
A) Meta-data
B) Beta-data
C) Beta-analysis
D) Meta-analysis
16) Which of the following are valid sources of criminal justice statistics?
A) Wikipedia
B) National Crime Survey
C) Both A and B
D) None of the above
17) Which of the following collects felony arrest records from those participating states that detail such cases from booking to final disposition?
A) Offender-Based Transaction Statistics
B) Victim-Based Transaction Statistics
C) State-Based Transaction Statistics
D) All of the above
18) Which of the following is a strategy of data collection in which the investigator attempts to examine the activity of subjects while keeping her or his presence either secret or to a minimum, so as not to interfere?
A) Scrutiny
B) Surveillance
C) Observation
D) Shadowing
19) Which of the following studies illustrates the controversy surrounding observational studies in the field?
A) New York Jury Study
B) Roswell Jury Study
C) Detroit Jury Study
D) Chicago Jury Study
20) Which of the following involves any type of research in which the researcher hides his or her presence or purpose for interacting with a group?
A) Disguised presence
B) Disguised observation
C) Disguised research
D) None of the above
21) Which of the following refers to research assistants who pose as subjects in a study?
A) Facilitators
B) Plants
C) Spies
D) Confederates
22) Which of the following refers to the reassurance of the subjects and an explanation of the purposes of the research upon completion of a study?
A) Research closeout
B) Research summary
C) Debriefing
D) Closeout
23) Which of the following refers to research conducted in such a manner that subject reactivity, or awareness of being studied, is eliminated?
A) Reactivity
B) Non-passivity
C) Non-reactivity
D) Passivity
24) Which of the following is the leading disadvantage in employing secretive means of gathering data?
A) Confidence invasion
B) Invasiveness
C) Privacy invasion
D) Intrusiveness
25) Which of the following greatly enhances the data-gathering process in unobtrusive measurement?
A) Field notes
B) Audio and visual mechanical aids
C) Intelligence
D) None of the above
