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Criminal Justice Research
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1. Specific statements or predictions regarding the relationship between two variables

2. False relationship that can be explained away by other variables

3. Research that relies on what is seen in field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data

4. Plausible explanation of reality

5. View of all social events as a distinct chronicle of unique happenings

6. The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable

7. Repetition of experiments or studies utilizing the same methodology

8. Accuracy within the study itself

9. Subjective evaluation of the risk to a research participant relative to the benefit both to the individual and to society of the results of the proposed research.

10. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form. Concepts are assigned to numerical values. On a scale of 1-5 how well do you like this class? (1=lowest)

11. A system of mutual obligation between subjects and researchers; because the subjects cooperation assisted the researcher - the researcher owes the subject professional regard

12. Fanatical adherence to a preferred method at the expense of substance; view that there is one and only one way of doing research - that is - by employing the one - best method

13. Combines rationality and logical explanation with method - emphasizing observation - measurement - replication and verification

14. Laws that protect researchers from being forced to reveal sources in court of law

15. View that - if one cannot quantitatively measure a phenomenon - it is not worth studying

16. The idea that delinquents and nondelinquents are two fundamentally different types of people

17. A type of longitudinal design to gather data from different samples across time

18. Explains world through rationality and logical explanation

19. Language of research

20. Agreement of subjects to participate in research after they have been briefed

21. A research design in which investigators compare groups of subjects of differing age who are observed at a single point in time.

22. Neither the subjects nor administrators in an experiment know which group is receiving the treatment

23. The process that moves from a given series of specifics to a generalization

24. 1. evidence of causality 2. control 3. cost 4. replication

25. Aliases used in research reports to protect the identity of respondents