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They then compared the number of violent incidents within the schools in the two groups over a 4-month period.
Experiment
Independent variable: Violent or non-violent games
Dependent variable: Number of violent incidents
c. Are panhandlers more violent at night? To find out, the researcher spends his weekends in a downtown location near bars and restaurants in a location that city leaders have described as a "problem" area. He dresses as a tourist in a loose fitting shirt and becomes one of the crowd. At the same time, he observes and compares the number of panhandling incidents, counts loud confrontations, and compares day-versus night-time.
Participant observation
Independent variable: day or night
Dependent variable: number of panhandling incidents and loud confrontations
d. Is income level related to attitudes toward stiffer sentences for gun crimes? To find out, the researcher calls by telephone a random sample of adults. Included in the telephone question-naires are items asking people to report their household income and to rate on a 10 point scale their approval of stiffer sentences for persons who commit felonies using guns.
Survey
Independent variable: household income
Dependent variable: gun crimes
e. Are Hollywood films becoming more violent? To find out, the researcher takes a random sample of 50 films from each period, 1995-1996, 2000-2001, and 2005-2006, and studies the number of violent incidents in each.
Content analysis
Independent variable: timer period
Dependent variables: number of violent incidents in each
7.Identify the...
The form contains questions used for a study of traffic stops.
a. Gender (choose one)
1. Male
2. Female
Nominal
b. Race/ethnicity (choose one)
1. African-American
2. Asian
3. Hispanic
4. White
5. Other (Not Apparent)
Nominal
c. Approximate age (choose one)
1. Under 16
2. 16-25
3. 26-35
4. 36-45
5. 45-60
6. 61-70
7. Over 70
Ordinal, but not interval/ration because the differences aren't the same because of categories 1&7
d. Reason for initiating stop (choose one)
1. Moving traffic violation
2. Vehicle equipment violation
3. Criminal
Nominal
e. Speeding
1. Yes
2. No
Nominal
f. Speed limit in zone (miles per hour) Nominal
g. Speed of vehicle (miles per hour) Nominal
h. Number of miles per hour above speed limit (choose one)
1. 1-5
2. 6-10
3. 11-19
4. 20 or more
Interval/ratio
i. Results of stop (choose one)
1. Citation issued
2. Written warning
3. Verbal warning
4. Arrest made
Ordinal- because there is an identifiable order of escalation
j. Whom was action taken against? (choose all that apply)
1. Driver
2. Passenger
Nominal
Burglary- 7.00% of 1000 people in USA experience this. The corollary is 2,159,878 individuals 5. Theft- 20.04 of 1000 people in Memphis experience this. The corollary is 6,185,867indivdiuals Motor vehicle theft -- 2.39% of 1000 people in Memphis experience this. The corollary is 737,142 individuals (Neighborhood Scout Crime rates for Memphis, TN). When compared to the nation as a whole, Memphis seems to have an unusually high environment of burglary and other
Crime Data Attorney General has the job of collecting, analyzing, and reporting statistical data, which will be able to give valid evaluations of crime and the criminal justice procedure to government and the people of the various states. Crime in Birmingham, Corpus Christi and Anchorage are three places that are unique and have different crime rates. The communicating Criminal Justice Profiles generate web-based exhibitions of data on all three cities. All
This solution is applied, expressly or tacitly all over the world. The usual alternative for extremely serious crimes remain life imprisonment. However, "although nearly all member states [of the EU] provide for this type of punishment in their respective penal codes either as a possibility or mandatory, it is understood rather as a principle than as common knowledge" (Use of the Death Penalty Worldwide) What would it take to work? There is
GSS codebook or GSS variable search as a reference following is the list of 5 potential topics I would like to explore for the research project: Drug use and addiction, Corporal Punishment, Mental Health, Old People and In this section 5 independent and 5 dependent variables have been identified from the GSS list. These variables have been chosen since they are connected to the topics chosen in the previous section: Dependent Variable: Dealing with drug
Free Press, 1998. Lab, Steven P. Crime Prevention, Seventh Edition: Approaches, Practices and Evaluations. Anderson; 7th Edition. 2010. Print. Snell, Clete. Neighborhood Structure, Crime, and Fear of Crime: Testing Bursik and Grasmick's Neighborhood Control Theory. LFB Scholarly Publishing. 2001. Print. University of Richmond. Thriving Neighborhoods. Solutions for America. 2003. Web. Accessed on January 10, 2011: http://www.solutionsforamerica.org/thrivingneigh/crime-prevention.html OUTLINE Thesis: The "broken windows" theory is the best way to explain neighborhood crime, as it relates to social disorder and
With the clear decline of crime-related activities in New York City, it can be easily inferred that unemployment rate started to decline also. This is based in the regression analysis from a different study that shows that as the trend in property crime rates goes down (from 1979 to 1997), the unemployment rate goes down with it. Trends in Adjusted Property Crimes Standardized Wages and Unemployment Rate Source: Gould, Weinberg, and Mustard, 2002 Analysis With