Question 1

Simulations usually have high validity.

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Simulations can vary greatly in their validity; it depends on how accurately they replicate the real-world conditions they are meant to model.

Question 2

Agency records being used for crime mapping are usually ready for analysis as soon as the agencies share the data with the researchers.

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Agency records often require cleaning and processing to address issues such as missing data, inconsistencies, and errors before they can be used for analysis in crime mapping.

Question 3

Meta-analysis and systematic reviews differ only in that meta-analysis includes more sophisticated statistical techniques.

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Meta-analysis involves combining data from multiple studies using statistical techniques to calculate an overall effect size, while systematic reviews synthesize findings from multiple studies without necessarily using statistical methods to combine results.

Question 4

Red literature databases provide lists of unpublished research.

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Red literature databases typically refer to sources that include government reports, policy statements, and other documents not published in the traditional academic manner, rather than specifically to unpublished research.

Question 5

The result of published research has been found to be different from unpublished research.

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It has been found that unpublished research may have a higher likelihood of showing non-significant or negative results, while published research may have a bias towards significant positive results. This can lead to a difference in the findings between the two types of research.

Question 6

Discuss the potential drawbacks to using criminal justice agency data for a study.

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Question 7

What are the pros and cons of using agency records to study juvenile offending?

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Question 8

What are the advantages to using datasets that were created by other researchers for previous projects?

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Question 9

What is publication bias? Why is it a problem for systematic and meta-analyses, and what can be done to address it?

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Question 10

Discuss why a researcher might use content analysis for a study.

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Question 11

If we are going through fictional crime shows and counting the number of times the police fire their guns, we are searching for ________ content.

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Question 12

If we are watching military recruitment commercials and noting how many of them appeal to people's desire for action and adventure, we are searching for _______ content.

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Question 13

A _____________ would allow us to re-create what might be a dangerous situation in real life without actually putting any research participants in danger.

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Question 14

_______ is a combination of existing police practices along with crime mapping to help officers be more proactive in preventing crime.

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Question 15

Researchers planning to do crime mapping using addresses from police reports should set aside time to ________ the dataset prior to doing analysis.

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Question 16

A ___________ is similar to a meta-analysis but lacks the sophisticated statistical analysis.

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Question 17

When conducting a systematic review or a meta-analysis, we have to do a good literature search in order to avoid __________ bias.

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Question 18

____________________ involve collection and summarization of empirical evidence that meets pre-specified inclusion criteria, whereas a _________________includes that same work but also applies statistical techniques to summarize the research findings.

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Question 19

Marking crime scene locations on a geographical representation of the area in order to see a pattern is an example of ____________________.

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Quiz 11: Less Obtrusive Methods