Deck 15: Research in Criminal Justice Organizations

Question 1

__________ describes a broad movement that incorporates the use of data in problem analysis and solution.

A) Crime Prevention through Environmental Design
B) Problem Oriented Policing
C) Community Policing
D) Foot Patrol

Answer 1

B

Question 2

In many agencies, a primary function of research may be to justify program budgets. True or False

Answer 2

True

Question 3

______-________ research refers to the development of the capacity within organizations to address their own data and research needs.

Answer 3

In-House

Question 4

The reason why practitioners have a difficult time working with academics; is because they need to do a better at communication. True or False

Question 5

The utilization of research finding in public policy has significantly high influences on policy decisions. True or False

Question 6

________________ founded total quality management which states that organizations need to develop the capacity to problem solve.

A) Howard Carlson
B) W. Edwards Deming
C) Robert Lynd
D) None of the above

Question 7

Berman and Fox (2010) suggest that all reformers, including administrators who seek change in criminal organizations become cognizant of what we have learned from our failures over the years. True or False

Question 8

Criminal justice organizations are replete with failure:

A) Police initiatives that engender ambiguous results
B) Sentencing reforms that do not alleviate injustices
C) Courts that operate under conditions of scarce resources
D) Correctional organizations that do not rehabilitate offenders
E) All of the above

Question 9

The most important source of information for managers appeared to be the word of trusted colleagues or staff members. True or False

Question 10

Chin and Benne (1969) described power-coercive strategies suggests that research is a source of coercive power used to contribute to rational processes within an organization. True or False

Question 11

Change in a criminal justice agency exists when the power of self-generated knowledge is the power to unfreeze the status quo. True or False

Question 12

___________ use of research by managers refers to the reality that they were enlightened by research but cited no specific use of findings in decision making.

Question 13

Total Quality Management emphasizes knowledge building process; the heart of that process has been the reliance on data-based analysis and teamwork that brings managers, workers, and researchers together to define and solve problems. True or False

Question 14

______-_______ strategies emphasize that understanding is a transactional process in which information is taken in, interpreted, and acted upon according to the consumer's values and experiences.

Question 15

Examples of criminal justice research include:

A) Meta Analysis
B) Quasi-experimental
C) Intelligence Analysis
D) All of the above

Question 16

The following all suggestions of past lessons for improvement of the efficacy of criminal justice agencies:

A) Criminal justice administrators need to be self-reflective and introspective regarding their practices and activities
B) Success should be defined more broadly
C) Seeking out evidence-based solutions to crime problems
D) Planning in isolation is the best method for improvement

Question 17

_________ _________ is the approach that applies techniques of social science to determine demographic pattern and behavioral patterns of victims and perpetrators of homicide.

Question 18

Organic research is when you incorporate the expertise of people, increase their competence and avoid dependency or resistance that may result from noninvolvement. True or False

Question 19

The primary purpose of Post Research is to develop knowledge that is directly useful to practitioners. True or False

Question 20

Basic research of criminal justice organizations seeks to understand fundamental issues of process and structure in ways that may not immediately be useful to practitioners. True or False

Question 21

The hybrid research model involves university-affiliated or research center-affiliated researchers who work with their local criminal justice agencies that has formed long term working relationships. True or False

Question 22

There are various ways of conceptualizing and applying research such as knowledge is power, knowledge is truth, and knowledge is understanding. True or False

Question 23

The foundation of the twenty first century crime strategies will be:

A) Integration of knowledge
B) Information into conceptualization
C) Response
D) All of the above

Question 24

For researchers the collaboration with criminal justice organizations provides rich data to test theory and to assess criminal justice operations. True or False

Question 25

Project Impact includes crime analysis, intelligence analysis, and data-based strategic planning under a program. True or False

Question 26

The major purpose of this book has been to provide an examination of the major dimensions that affect and influence criminal justice administration. True or False

Question 27

Criminal justice can utilize research:

A) Instrumentally
B) Symbolically
C) Conceptually
D) All of the above

Question 28

Criminal justice data is expressed through source of informative crime data:

A) Uniform Crime reports
B) Federal Bureau of Investigation Reports
C) Police Reports
D) None of the above

Question 29

In-house research departments have been seen as focusing on counting, accounting, or other organizational maintenance functions rather than on research. True or False

Question 30

Criminal justice administration has evolved as society evolved. True or False