Crim 249 Exam 1 Questions & Answers
Question : Lenses to view Crime
CORRECT ANSWER : Normative, Legal, Medical,
Psychological, Sociological
Question : Descriptive theory
CORRECT ANSWER : Seeks understanding by describing
and capturing in statistical terms and the decisions that people make.
Question : Explanatory theory
CORRECT ANSWER : explains a range of phenomena
rather than a specific instance of a problem.
Question : Genuine scientific theories must be...
CORRECT ANSWER : empirical, testable, falsifiable
Question : Levels of theory and analysis
CORRECT ANSWER : micro, meso, macro
Question : How do we judge explanations for crime?
CORRECT ANSWER : Logical consistency, scope,
parsimony, testability, empirical validity
Question : Advocacy
CORRECT ANSWER : public support for a cause or policy
Question : activism
CORRECT ANSWER : the policy or action of using
vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change
Question : Elements of casual logic
CORRECT ANSWER : Correlation, time order, ruling out
spuriousness (endogeneity)
Question : Dependent variable
CORRECT ANSWER : The outcome factor; the variable that
may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable.
Question : Independent variable
CORRECT ANSWER : The experimental factor that is
manipulated; the variable whose effect is being studied.
Question : Intervening variable
CORRECT ANSWER : a third variable, sometimes
overlooked, that explains the relationship between two other variables
Question : Moderating variable
CORRECT ANSWER : variable that changes the nature of
the relationship between two other variables
Question : Types of empirical relationships
CORRECT ANSWER : Direct cause, indirect cause,
reciprocal relationship, multiple (additive) cause
Question : Interaction effects
CORRECT ANSWER : The effect of A on C depends on B
Question : Quantitative data
CORRECT ANSWER : numerical data (aggregate or
individual)
Question : Qualitative data
CORRECT ANSWER : Information describing color, odor,
shape, or some other physical characteristic (ethnographic or historical)
Question : Types of research methods
CORRECT ANSWER : experiment, analysis, surveys,
ethnography, historical