Chapter 12
1. A researcher wants to know whether judges’ gender (measured as male or female) affects the severity of sentence (measured as months of sentence) is the impose on convicted defendants. Answer the following questions:
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o What is the independent variable?
o What is the level of measurement of the independent variable?
o What is the dependent variable?
o What is the level of measurement of the dependent variable?
o What type of hypothesis tests should the researcher use?
2. A researcher wants to know whether judges gender (measured as male or female) affects the type of sentence is they impose on convicted criminal defendants (measured as jail; prison; probation; fine; other). Answer the following questions:
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o What is the independent variable?
o What is the level of measurement of the independent variable?
o What is the dependent variable?
o What is the level of measurement of the dependent variable?
o What type of hypothesis tests should the researcher use?
3. A researcher wishes to find out whether arrests deterred domestic violence offenders from committing future acts of violence against intimate partners. The researcher measured arrest as arrest; mediation; separation; no action and recidivism as numbers of arrest for domestic violence within the next 3 years. Answer the following questions:
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o What is the independent variable?
o What is the level of measurement of the independent variable?
o What is the dependent variable?
o What is the level of measurement of the dependent variable?
o What type of hypothesis tests should the researcher use?
4. A researcher wishes to find out whether arrest deters domestic violence offenders from committing feature acts of violence against intimate partners. The researcher measures arrest as arrest; mediation; separation; no action and recidivism whether or not these offenders were arrested for domestic violence within the next 2 years measured as (arrested; not arrested). Answer the following questions:
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o What is the independent variable?
o What is the level of measurement of the independent variable?
o What is the dependent variable?
o What is the level of measurement of the dependent variable?
o What type of hypothesis tests should the researcher use?
