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CJUS 601 Week 6 QUIZ

Question 1
Utility is intended to ensure that an evaluation will:

Question 2
Which of the following is a stage of content analysis according to Weber (1985)?

Question 3
Which of the following is a disadvantage of historical events research?


Question 4
A county judge has been sentencing first time offenders to a faith-based residential treatment center for the last three years and wants to know if the program has been effective, but does not care to know the methods used by the center. Which of the following describes the kind of evaluation research he is interested in?

Question 5
A study is conducted in which researchers examine newspaper articles are strictly scrutinized to understand just what types of messages were being sent to the readers. This is an example of:

Question 6
Propriety is intended to ensure that an evaluation will:

Question 7
The following question(s) are based on the following situation: The Children at Risk (CAR) program intervenes in the lives of high-risk adolescents 11 to13 years of age who live in severely distressed neighborhoods. Harrell and her colleagues sought to answer three primary questions: Did CAR youths and families participate in more services and prosocial activities during the program than youths and families in the control and comparison groups?
Did CAR youths and caregivers have fewer risk factors and/or protective factors than youths and caregivers in the control and comparison groups one year after the program ended? Were CAR youths less likely to exhibit problem behaviors in the year following the end of the
program than high-risk youths in the control group who did not receive CAR services? The third question is an evaluation of:


Question 8
A juvenile court is assessing the impact of a diversion program. This diversion program curtails the use of secure confinement and increases the use of informal sanctions for minor delinquents. The evaluation shows that keeping minor delinquents out of secure confinements would not significantly increase the crime rate. The crime rate would remain
stable because there are very few juveniles who would be eligible to participate in the diversion program. A citizen who is concerned about wasting financial resources argues that before conducting an evaluation of impact, the researcher should have conducted an
evaluation of:

Question 9
Which of the following is not used in secondary data analysis?

Question 10
A research method for systematically analyzing and making inferences from text is called:

Question 11
A researcher studies the great fire in San Francisco in 1906 to determine its impact on crime in that city. This is an example of:

Question 12
Research that seeks to understand how national systems work and the factors related to their operations is called:

Question 13
Many prevention programs are denoted as failures before they ever have a chance to demonstrate their effectiveness. This occurs, in part, because it takes a tremendous amount of time and effort to implement prevention programs. A researcher performs a meta-analysis of evaluations of prevention program. Her main finding is that prevention programs are not
effective. She finds however, that they are not effective because they were evaluated too early, when they were not yet fully developed. Her key finding is that successful prevention will only occur after successful implementation. Her research was an evaluation of:

Question 14
"One of the largest" comparative research projects undertaken in criminology has been the development of the:

Question 15
Design a research study using content analysis. Outline a theory, hypotheses, and a research plan. How might content analysis both help and hurt your project?