160_sp05_memo_20050131_test_1_study

TO: Students in CJ 160

FROM: RBT

DATE: 1/31/05

RE: Test 1 upcoming and some study thoughts and RMCJ study guide

To help you organize the Jacobs readings, you have questions. Below are a series of key words you want to be familiar after having read the assigned pages in Research Methods in Criminal Justice.

Attributes
Attributes/variables
Bivariate distribution
Bridging theories
Cases
Causal logic
Cell frequencies
Classical test theory
Column percentages
Communality
Concepts
Constitutive definition
Constructs
Cross-tabulations
Distance property
Dummy variable
Dynamics
Features
Frequency distributions
Households touched by crime
Hypothesis
Incidence-based rate
Indexes
Macro theories
Magnitudes
Marginal frequencies
Measurement
Measurement error
Mediating concept
Micro theories
Observed scores
Observed scores
Operational definitions/ Operationalization
Ordering property
Outcome concepts
Outcome variables
Overall Victimization Counts
Part I Crime Index
Predictor concepts
Predictor variables
Prevalence-based rate
Property Crime Index
Propositions
Quantity
Recode
Row percentages
Scale construction
Specificity
Theorizing
Variables
Victimization Counts
Victimization Rates
Violent Crime Index