To study organized crime, a researcher is able to interview leading members of organized crime families. During these interviews, she requests the names of leading members of other organized crime families. She interviews these other leaders, asks them for additional leaders’ names, and continues in this manner until she has interviewed 45 members from 19 different families. Her sampling method is:
a. Availability sampling
b. Quota sampling
c. Snowball sampling
d. Cluster sampling
c. Snowball sampling
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