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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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· What is the independent variable?

· What is the level of measurement of the independent variable?

· What is the dependent variable?

· What is the level of measurement of the dependent variable?

· 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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· What is the independent variable?

· What is the level of measurement of the independent variable?

· What is the dependent variable?

· What is the level of measurement of the dependent variable?

· 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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· What is the independent variable?

· What is the level of measurement of the independent variable?

· What is the dependent variable?

· What is the level of measurement of the dependent variable?

· 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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· What is the independent variable?

· What is the level of measurement of the independent variable?

· What is the dependent variable?

· What is the level of measurement of the dependent variable?

· What type of hypothesis tests should the researcher use?