Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Some researchers feel that social science and criminal justice research have been over-dependent on the artificial elements of questionnaires, interviews, and experimental settings.
2. Critics of quantitative research suggest that little relationship exists between attitude and behavior and that more “sensitizing” strategies involving field studies contain greater accuracy.
3. Design imperfections, in either the instrument or the analysis, can produce inaccurate results.
4. Participant observation refers to a variety of strategies in which the researcher studies a group in its natural setting by observing its activities and, to varying degrees, participating in its activities.
5. The Weber Approach was Weber’s notion that researchers understand a group by immersing themselves in the world of the group.
1. True
2. True
3. True
4. True
5. False
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a. True b. False
If an officer, while conducting a pat-down search under Terry, feels an object that he or she believes is an illegal narcotic, how should the officer proceed?
a. The officer should continue the pat-down for weapons and, if a weapon is found, the officer can expand the search to explore whether the object is narcotics. b. The officer must limit his search to the parameters of Terry unless he or she is able to establish probable cause to believe that the object is an illegal narcotic. c. The officer should detain the suspect until he or she can obtain a search warrant authorizing a more extensive search of the individual. d. The officer can expand his or her search to parameters to those consistent with a search incident to an arrest.
What federal department operates the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) as its research arm?
a. Department of Defense b. Treasury Department c. Department of Justice d. Department of Homeland Security