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Questions:

1. What is the difference between anonymity and confidentiality? Give an example.
2. When the term "informed consent" is used in criminal justice research it refers to some very specific ethical concerns. Discuss what is meant by "informed consent" and why it is important when engaging in research.
3. Researchers strive to do no harm to their subjects. Identify what type of harm may occur to subjects and use specific examples to illustrate the potential harm. Include in your answer whether harm is ever appropriate when completing research in criminal justice.
4. Explain the probabilistic model of causation.
5. Discuss the role of the Institutional Review Boards (IRB) in the research process. In what ways do they influence research and what is their specific purpose? Give an example of a situation that would not be approved by an IRB and how the researcher could rectify that situation.
6. Describe the different units of analysis and give examples of each. Provide an example of the way in which the ecological fallacy is the result of errors with units of analysis. Explain in detail.
7. Explain the difference between a necessary and a sufficient cause. Give an example of each from the criminal justice literature.
8. Describe the three criteria for causality or a causal relationship. Give an example of each using the same hypothesis.
9. Professor Hardy has spent the last decade conducting a study of the effects of early childhood "Wellness" programs on subsequent delinquency. Every year, Dr. Hardy visits participating families and collects a variety of data. Over the course of 10 years, many families have moved away and Dr. Hardy has been unable to locate them. What problem has Dr. Hardy encountered? Explain. What can Dr. Hardy do to protect his research?
10. What do we mean by time dimension? Explain the difference between cross-sectional and longitudinal research.