Chapter 10 Criminal Justice Methods in Research

A directed discussion with a small group of people is called

A focus group

Two basic types of focus groups are a natural group and

An artificial group.

Ways young people think about violence are called

Violent action schemes

Which of the following is not a type of interview used in qualitative research?

all of these types of interviews are used in qualitative research

All the information a researcher logs in the context of the qualitative interview is known as the:

audit trail

Open coding is also defined as:

brainstorming

A key feature of qualitative interviewing is

contextualization

Which of the following is not a type of focus group

contrived group

The first step in creating questions is typically:

determining whom you will interview

Metaphors and analogies in speech mark

important concepts

The best way to understand how and why people do things is to:

interact with them directly

The primary advantage of the unstructured interview is that it provides

more breadth of information

Qualitative data interpretation is different than that of quantitative data interpretation in that it accepts:

multiple realities

Studying a topic such as robbery can best be accomplished through

qualitative interviewing

Mode of data analysis depends on

research objectives

Qualitative interviewing by its very nature is

subjective

participants are usually reluctant to participate in research studies when:

they feel threatened in some way

Semi-structured interviews are helpful when

two or more people are doing the interviewing

A primary advantage of the semi-structured interview when compared to the structured interview is that it allows:

unscheduled probes to be used

Qualitative interviews are more effective than survey research in regard to

validity