A researcher compared the recidivism rates of drug abusers who were given probation with those who were sentenced to prison and discovered that the recidivism rates were highest for those sentenced to prison. What potential error is reflected by this conclusion?
a. internal validity
b. statistical conclusion validity
c. construct validity
d. external validity
a
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Identify one manifest function of a law prohibiting marijuana possession.
What will be an ideal response?
Warrantless searches are to ______ as stop and frisk is to ______.
a. traffic violation; illegal substance b. illegal substance; traffic violation c. reasonable suspicion; probable cause d. probable cause; reasonable suspicion
Captain Washington has noticed that Officer Fields pulls over female drivers three times as often as he pulls over male drivers. The captain documents the activity in the officer's file to help determine whether there is a pattern after recognizing this as one of the warning signs of ____________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Mary, a student at a community college in New York, is in the United States on a student visa that allows her to remain in the United States until she obtains her master's degree in biology. She is considering returning to her home country because she is concerned with the increase in crime at her college and in the surrounding area. Mary attempts to find information on the crime rates in her
hometown to compare to those in the city where she currently attends college.Why will it be difficult for Mary to compare the crime rates in a U.S. city with her hometown of London, England? A) ?England does not have any crime statistics that are available to civilians. B) ?There are differences in the way crime is measured. C) ?England is a dictatorship and manipulates crime rates so that their country appears to be safe. D) ?Only solved cases are included in England's crime rates. E) ?England has no crime.