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This homework is designed to help in reviewing for the midterm. There will be two kinds of questions: Open Book and Closed Book. To complete this assignment, simply circle the correct answers. If you wish to submit this online, you may mark your answer in the file with two capital x's, e.g., XX. Save it in html or ascii dos text format with line breaks and submit it to WEBCT.
Open Book questions will refer to a table or graph from the Blumstein and Wallman book, or to a table or graph which I will put on the screen in the classroom (from one of the other readings). You will be asked to answer multiple choice questions based on the information in the table or graph.
Sample Open Book questions (the questions in Assignment Five are also Open Book questions, although they are not in multiple-choice format. Some of these may be rewritten as multiple choice questions for the test.)
1. Looking at Table 5.2, which category of victims had the highest rate of homicide victimization over the period from 1980-1995? a. black male b. white male c. black female c. white female
2. Which category had the largest variation in its homicide victimization rate from year to year? a. black male b. white male c. black female c. white female
3. Trends in homicide victimzation among which group went down the most sharply from 1980-1995? a. black male b. white male c. black female c. white female
4. Which statistic is a measure of variation: M Sd AdjR2 b
5. Which statistic is a measure of the trend over time: M Sd AdjR2 b
6. Looking at Table 5.3, male homicide offenses went down most among which group: a. black b. white
7. Looking at Figure 9.1, which year had the highest "b" for the trend regression line: a. 1955-1965 b. 1965-1975 c. 1975-1985 d. 1985-1995
8. Looking at Figure 9.2, which period had the highest "b" for the regression line with year as the independent variable and %18-24 as the dependent variable: a. 1965-1980 b. 1980-1988
CLOSED BOOK. Once we have finished the open book questions, we will have some closed book multiple choice questions such as.
9. Homicide in the last twenty years has declined steadily among: a. juveniles b. adults c. both d. neither
10. Multiple regression studies of the effects of capital punishment on homicide rates showed that: a. capital punishment cuts homicide rates b. capital punishment does not cut homicide rates c. some showed one thing, some showed the other
11. Dr. Goertzel argued that multiple regression has proved an effective tool for resolving causal controversies in criminal justice research. a. true b. false
12. The N.Y. Times Magazine article on hate crime legislation argued that: a. such legislation is a good thing b. such legislation is well intended but not a good idea
13. The argument that "drugs should be legalized because we have not been successful in suppressing them" is based on which kind of logic: a. deontological b. teleological
14. The argument that "drugs should be legalized because people have a right to put whatever substances they want into their own bodies" is based on which kind of logic; a. deontological b. teleological
15. Dr Goertzel argued that the most productive approach in criminal justice research is to: a. disaggregate trends b. aggregate the trends into one comprehensive equation
16. The "Diminishing Returns" study argued that: a. the states that imprisoned more people had greater declines in crime rates b. the states that imprisoned more people had greater increases in crime rates c. there was no clear correlation between the rate of imprisonment in a state and the crime rate.
17. The principle of "respect for persons" is based on which ethical principle: a. egoistic b. group loyalty c. deontological d. teleological
18. The principle of "beneficence"
is based on which ethical principle: a. egoistic b.
group loyalty c. deontological d. teleological