Across
- 3. A series of interrelated propositions that attempts to describe, explain, predict and ultimately control some class of events.
- 4. A group of experimental subjects that, although the subject of measurement and observation, is not exposed to the experimental intervention.
- 11. Research using a social science date-gathering technique that involves the use of questionnaires.
- 12. Uses rigorous social scientific techniques.
- 15. The process by which concepts are made measurable.
- 21. Statistics that describe, summarize, or highlight the relationships within data that have been gathered.
- 25. A scientific principle that requires that independent observers see the same thing under the same circumstances for observations to be regarded as valid.
- 26. Statistics that specify how likely findings are to be true for other populations or in other locales.
- 27. A casual, complementary, or reciprocal relationship between two measurable variables.
Down
- 1. Research based on new evaluations of existing information that has been collected by other researchers.
- 2. The ethical requirement of social scientific research to protect the confidentiality of individual research participants while preserving justified research access to the information participants provide.
- 3. A statistical technique intended to provide researchers with confidence that their results are, in fact, true and not the result of sampling error.
- 5. A scientific principle that holds that valid observations made at one time can be made again later if all other conditions are the same.
- 6. Built on scientific findings.
- 7. The ethical requirement of social scientific research that research subjects be informed about the nature of the research to be conducted, their anticipated role in it, and the uses to which the data they provide will be put.
- 8. A strategy in data gathering in which the researcher observes a group by participating, to varying degrees, in the activities of the group.
- 9. An approach to research that, although less powerful than experimental designs, is deemed worthy of use when better designs are not feasible.
- 10. A research technique that produces measurable results.
- 13. A concept that can undergo measurable changes.
- 14. The process whereby individuals are assigned to study groups without biases or differences resulting from selection.
- 16. Research undertaken simply for the sake of advancing scientific knowledge.
- 17. A study that combines the results of other studies about a particular topic of interests. Also a comprehensive and systematic review of other studies.
- 18. Research based on scientific inquiry that is designed and carried out with practical application in mind.
- 19. The use of standardized, systematic procedures in the search for knowledge.
- 20. Research characterized by original and direct investigation.
- 22. A tentative explanation accounting for a set of facts that can be tested by further investigation.
- 23. experiment An experiment that attempts to hold conditions (other than the intentionally introduced experimental intervention) constant.
- 24. The kind of subjective understanding that can be achieved by criminologists who immerse themselves in the everyday world of the criminals they study.