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Random error - Answer An error in data collection that occurs because of an intervening variable that could not have been foreseen. (p. 41) Rationalism - Answer The principle that some kinds of knowledge are innate and others can be acquired through reasoning, independent of experience. (p. 26)

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Random error - Answer An error in data collection that occurs because of an intervening
variable
that could not have been foreseen. (p. 41)


Rationalism - Answer The principle that some kinds of knowledge are innate and others
can be acquired
through reasoning, independent of experience. (p. 26)


Reliability - Answer The likelihood that an observed relationship between two or more
variables can
or will be observed in a consistent manner. (p. 40)


Sampling - Answer The process of selecting a group of research subjects that is
representative of the
entire population under investigation. (p. 40)


Systematic error - Answer An error in data collection that the researcher has been able
to anticipate
and account for. (p. 41)


Canadian Center for Justice Statistics (CCJS) - Answer The agency responsible for
collecting
and compiling crime data on a wide range of criminological and criminal justice topics.
(p.
51)

,Canadian Urban Victimization Survey (CUVS) - Answer The first major attempt to survey
Canadians
who had been victims of crime, conducted in the 1980s. (p. 58)


Causality - Answer The idea that one event is the result of one or more other events. (p.
65)


Correctional statistics - Answer Data on people being held in federal and provincial
corrections facilities,
including age, sex, offence, and prior convictions. (p. 54)


Crime data - Answer The information collected to measure the frequency and severity of
criminal
events. (p. 47)


Dark figure of crime - Answer Crime that goes undetected unreported, or unrecorded,
and is not
included in official sources. (p. 50)


General Social Survey (GSS) - Answer A Statistics Canada survey used to regularly gather
data on
social trends and to provide information on specific policy issues of current or emerging
interest.
(p. 58)


Hypothesis - Answer An idea or assertion about a phenomenon, a situation, or a
relationship between

, variables that a researcher sets out to prove or disprove. (p. 65)


Negative correlation - Answer A direct correlation in which an increase in one variable is
associated
with a decrease in the other variable. (p. 65)


Positive correlation - Answer A direct correlation in which an increase in one variable is
associated
with an increase in the other variable. (p. 65)


Qualitative research - Answer Research designed to study characteristics that cannot be
measured
or counted. (p. 62)


Restorative Justice - Answer A sentencing model that emphasizes restitution and
community participation,
aimed at reintegrating offenders back into their communities. (p. 66)


Self-report studies - Answer Surveys in which individuals are asked to voluntarily
disclose whether
they have ever committed an offence, yielding stores of unofficial crime data that can
shed
light on undetected and underreported types of crime. (p. 61)


Triangulation - Answer The use of multiple data sources or research methods to
investigate a topic,
with the goal of producing more reliable findings. (p. 64)

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