Criminal Justice Services (DCJS)

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Hypothetical Scenario:

You are working for the NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS). DCJS is interested in knowing what percentage of states have active restorative justice programs. Because of budget constraints, you are not able to ask each state government and must therefore rely on a sample. You, as the most knowledgeable researcher, are asked to select a sample of 25 states from the list on the back.

Include the following information in your typed write-up:

  1. The name of the probability sampling technique you have decided to use. (1 point)
  2. State exactly the method employed to select the sample of 25 states. If you are using excel or google, provide the printout showing your work. (3 points)
  3. Provide a list of the 25 states in your sample. (1 point)
  4. (Warning: Hypothetical figures are being used. DO NOT take this to be the actual situation.)

You conduct the survey by asking the state governments in your sample if they have active restorative justice programs. Seventy-three percent (73%) of your sample indicated that they have a program. DCJS is interested in knowing how confident you are about generalizing this estimate to the population of all states. (Caution: Our example violates a number of assumptions for the binomial standard error equation and corrections or weights should be applied.)

a. Calculate the standard error to 2 decimal points. (2 points)
b. What is the confidence level for two standard errors? (1 point)
c. Calculate the confidence interval for two standard errors and provide a statement explaining the interval? (2 points)

Deep South and Mid-South South Central and Southwest

  1. Alabama
  2. Arkansas
  3. Florida
  4. Kansas
  5. Georgia
  6. Missouri
  7. Louisiana
  8. Oklahoma
  9. Mississippi
  10. Texas
  11. Kentucky
  12. Arizona
  13. North Carolina
  14. Colorado
  15. South Carolina
  16. Nevada
  17. Tennessee
  18. New Mexico
  19. Virginia
  20. Utah

Mid-Atlantic and New England Great Lakes and Upper Plains

  1. Delaware
  2. Illinois
  3. Maryland
  4. Indiana
  5. New Jersey
  6. Michigan
  7. New York
  8. Ohio
  9. Pennsylvania
  10. Wisconsin
  11. West Virginia
  12. Iowa
  13. Connecticut
  14. Minnesota
  15. Maine
  16. Nebraska
  17. Massachusetts
  18. North Dakota
  19. New Hampshire
  20. South Dakota
  21. Rhode Island
  22. Vermont

Northwest and Pacific West

  1. Idaho
  2. Montana
  3. Oregon
  4. Washington
  5. Wyoming
  6. Alaska
  7. California
  8. Hawaii

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