A researcher is interested in learning whether young people whose fathers are absent from the home are more likely to engage in delinquent behaviour. She compares the arrest rates of boys whose fathers are absent with those of boys whose fathers are present in the home. This is an example of

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The study compares the arrest rates of boys with absent fathers to those with present fathers, which is a correlational study. The researcher is not manipulating any variables or randomly assigning participants, so it is not an experimental or field experiment. It is also not a self-report study as the data is coming from external records of arrests.

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