What is the importance of both reliability and validity to the measurement and nature of delinquency?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers may include the following points:
• Validity: The extent to which a research instrument measures what it says it measures.
• Reliability: The extent to which a questionnaire or interview yields the same answers from the same juveniles when they are questioned two or more times.
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
To help determine the age and condition of stolen property, ask the victim whether items were purchased new or secondhand
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
If, prior to completion of a booking, the booking officer finds that the arrested person is in need of immediate medical care or treatment, the booking officer should:
A) Arrange for the transportation of that person to the hospital. B) Refuse to complete the booking. C) Complete the booking, then call for medical personnel. D) Refuse to complete the booking and require the police officer to take the person for treatment.
In 1976, the Bureau of Prisons deemphasized the medical model and adopted a(n) ________ approach
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word